Jim first posed this question back in 2020, comparing the warranty for a $35 toaster with that of a $1700 laptop. Nothing has changed in the interim. Should warranties on major electrical items be longer than 12 months? Let us know your thoughts via the
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The wonderful Dick Evans, who has sadly since passed, submitted this great advice in 2019. However, Dick’s explanation of how to set up a new PC is as relevant today as it was back then. Check it out! Setting Up A New Computer It’s a
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Some of these tips have been around for quite some time but if your memory is anything like mine, there’s a fair chance you have forgotten all about them. So, what follows is essentially a refresher course, of sorts. Permanently Delete Files You’d all be
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Most of us by now know what TikTok is. If not then here is a quick definition from TikTok about us page. TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. Since you now know what
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A woman called me because she had copied some pictures from her computer to her phone. It’s an Android. She then takes them to Walmart to get prints made but she couldn’t see them on her phone. It’s a naming issue. I experimented with my
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A woman called me and she wanted to download some pictures from her Facebook account to her iPhone. She was going to have them printed up later from some photo service, probably Walmart. I only had remote access to her computer to do this. If
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Set Up With Ninite I decided to reinstall Windows on one of my old computers. One big pain with this issue is downloading and installing all of your programs. You can do it one by one or all at once using a program/service called Ninite.
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Go grab a tissue and I’ll share a story with you, and this is one you should definitely read (at least to find out what 3-2-1 means)… A few weeks ago I was a party in a sad conversation, which had all the attributes of
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Do you shut down your computer and electronic gadgets when you are not using them? In my “Camp Wired” computer classes that I teach weekly, I get this question often from students. There are so many different answers out there depending on who you talk to.
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Computer Frustration Incarnate We have all experienced the maniacal state of “computer rage”. It can be compared to “road rage”, but there is no true equal. No one on the road actually destroys their vehicles. Oh sure, they may stomp on their steering wheels and
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The area in Windows Explorer known for a long time as “My Computer” and in more recent iterations labeled just “Computer” is generally not terribly customizable. For items such as hard drives and devices to be displayed they first have to be detected and recognized
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Should You install a RAMDrive? RAMDrives (also called RAMDisks) use, uh… RAM (Random Access Memory). That means that if you don’t have enough to begin with then a RAMDrive is not for you. What is enough? If you’re running Windows 7 (64-bit) then the sweet spot
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This is the seventh in a series of articles looking back over ‘Geek Facts’. Today’s topic is the ‘Geekiest Decade’. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened on that day in history.
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This is the sixth in a series of articles looking back over ‘Geek Facts’. Today’s topic is the Geekiest Year. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened on that day in history.
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