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Have you ever accidentally deleted a photo, Microsoft Word document or some other file that you actually had no intention of deleting?
The fact is we have all done it at one time or another.
And guess what? When that happens, all might not be lost… [Read more…]
A while back I told you about a great free program called Speccy that lists pretty much every technical detail there is about your PC.
If you have even a passing interest in what hardware and software is inside your computer’s case, you need to download Speccy today.
If you have that same curiosity about what’s inside your Android phone or tablet, a wonderful free app called CPU-Z will tell you. [Read more…]
As regular readers of this blog already know, I’m a huge fan of free software.
And thanks to the Internet there are thousands of great free programs available for instant download right onto our computers.
But truth be told, much of that “free” software isn’t actually free.
While it’s true that we can download tons of free programs without having to lay out any cash, we often end up paying in other ways. [Read more…]
Do you use Facebook on a laptop or desktop computer?
If so, you’re probably familiar with one or more of these common annoyances:
All of these annoyances (and many more) have irritated me at one time or another, and I’m guessing they’ve irritated you as well. [Read more…]
I don’t know about you, but I hate it when a video begins playing automatically just as soon as I load a web page into my browser.
Plenty of sites allow you to toggle a setting to disable autoplaying videos, but most of them don’t.
And even in the ones that do, it’s a major hassle having to wade through a site’s settings in order to figure out how to disable autoplaying videos, especially on sites that you don’t visit all that often. [Read more…]