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I recently received a heads-up from a friend that Xfinity was now offering 1.2Gbps Internet service in my neck of the woods.
I did a little checking around and discovered they are now offering Gigabit+ download speeds in most of the areas they currently service.
If you use a Mac there are probably times when you’d like to view (and use) two different apps at the same time.
That would have been fairly difficult back in the days of small screens, but with today’s wide-screen monitors there’s now plenty of room for showing two apps at once in windows that are large enough to actually be usable.
If your Mac is running macOS Catalina or later (and if it’s a relatively recent model, it should be), you can use a super-handy feature called “Split View” to make that happen. [Read more…]
Question from Danny: I’ve been reading your newsletters for over a year now, and I always learn something I can use from them.
I’ve read in several of your recent posts that Microsoft Defender and the free version of Malwarebytes make a good combination for security on a Windows PC.
When my McAfee came up for renewal I removed it and installed the free Malwarebytes, and so far I’ve been happy with that setup.
One thing I’m not happy about though is all the notifications I’m getting from Windows Security. Every day I get several of them, and most of the ones I get aren’t even important.
How can I limit the notifications I receive from Windows Security to just the ones that are truly needed? [Read more…]
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I have written several posts that explain how to clone a hard drive or SSD, and every time I think I’ve found the simplest method possible I eventually discover an even easier way to do it.
Well, I’ve found yet another way, and I honestly don’t think cloning a drive could be any simpler than this.
The Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station literally makes the process of cloning a hard drive or SSD onto a target drive as simple as pushing a button!
This is all you have to do to clone a hard drive or SSD using the Sabrent docking station: [Read more…]
A while back I wrote a post explaining how to give an old PC new life by replacing Windows with Linux as a means of extending the useful life of older PCs.
After that post was published I received a number of emails asking for a list of Linux programs that can replace the Windows programs they’d leaving behind if they made the switch.
I decided that it might be a good idea to publish that list in its own blog post, and here it is: [Read more…]