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How to forward your Yahoo mail to another email account

Posted on February 11, 2018

Yahoo Mail is the second most used email service on the web, and it’s also one of the oldest.

But if you use Yahoo Mail you’re probably painfully aware of all the troubles the service and its users have endured in recent times.

Those issues have prompted a lot of users to switch from Yahoo to a different email service.

I’ve received several emails of late asking me how to forward Yahoo Mail to another email account, so I thought it might be a good idea to just write a how-to post explaining the procedure. [Read more…]

This is the absolute easiest way to add a second monitor to your computer!

Posted on February 1, 2018

It’s no secret that using multiple monitors with your computer greatly enhances the user experience and boosts productivity.

For example, you can use your primary display for your essential tasks while your email and other tangential apps are running on one or more side monitors where they are out of the way, yet always in view and ready to use when you need them.

The biggest drawbacks to installing additional monitors have always been the need to have multiple video ports on your PC and the complexity involved with setting everything up in Windows or OS X. But thanks to the wonderful world of USB, that is no longer the case. [Read more…]

Q&A: Why is my computer not working with the new RAM I bought?

Posted on December 5, 2017

Question from Eric H.: I have an older ASUS Essentio CM1630 desktop computer that came with 2GB of RAM.

I scanned the system with Speccy and found out it currently has a single 2GB/DDR3 RAM stick in it.

I want to upgrade the RAM so I bought an 8GB/DDR3 RAM stick and installed it so I can have 10GB total, but I ran into a problem.

The computer won’t boot with both RAM sticks installed. It also won’t boot with just the 8GB stick installed. However, it boots just fine with just the original 2GB stick installed.

What could be the problem? I know this computer is supposed to support up to 16GB of RAM total.

I’m thinking I might have bought a bad RAM stick but I wanted to check with you first in case there’s a BIOS setting or a jumper that needs to be changed.

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]