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Question from Bobby: Per your suggestion, I recently bought a dirt-cheap 250GB SSD to replace the hard drive in an older Acer laptop.
And you were right – the speed increase is astounding! Thanks for the info!
As I was installing the SSD I noticed how much larger it is than the 256GB SD card that’s inside my phone.
Why is the SSD so much larger than the SD card when they both hold roughly the same amount of data?
Question from Lisa: My email account is receiving so much SPAM that I’m ready to ditch it and set up a new one.
Is there a trick for setting up an email address so that it won’t end up on some spammer’s email list?
Would something like putting numbers in the middle or along the lines of [email protected] work? [Read more…]
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Question from Carl: I bought this 300 watt 12VDC to 120VAC power inverter to run my coffee pot and a couple of other items while I’m camping.
While I was researching a related topic online I found a couple of articles that said not to plug an inverter larger than 200 watts into a car’s cigarette lighter because it’ll burn the inverter up.
That’s a problem because the inverter I bought only came with a cigarette lighter plug. You can’t remove it and there’s no place to plug in cables that can connect it directly to the battery.
What I need to know is will my 300W inverter really burn up if I plug it into my car’s cigarette lighter socket? [Read more…]
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Question from Brittney: I have a question I’ve been wanting the answer to for a long time and nobody seems to know the answer.
Now that I’ve found this site I’ll ask you.
I’ve noticed that the drive letters in computers always start with “C” and go up from there?
There doesn’t seem to be an “A” drive or a “B” drive. Can you tell me why that is? [Read more…]
Question from Alex: I’m a singer/musician who has a large semi-local following in my city and the surrounding areas.
I created a Facebook page and tried to use it to let my fans know about my upcoming gigs, but I recently found out that Facebook only shows my posts to a just a small percentage of my 8,000+ followers.
I’ve found that I do a lot better when I post the dates on my personal Facebook Timeline.
The problem is Facebook won’t allow me to have more than 5,000 friends and I have new people wanting to friend me all the time.
Can you tell me how to bypass the 5,000 friend limit on a personal account? [Read more…]