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If you’re shopping for a budget PC or tablet with Windows 10 on it you’ll find plenty of them that come with just 32GB of storage space.
In fact, I’ve reviewed several such low-cost Windows 10 devices on this blog in the past.
And I must say that some of those reviews were glowing.
But that being said, I’ll never review or recommend another Windows 10 device of any kind that comes with just 32 GB of storage.
By now you probably know that Amazon Prime members get free 2-day shipping on Prime-eligible products plus a bunch of other awesome perks. It truly is one of the best deals around.
That being said, you might be reluctant to sign up for a Prime membership due to the $119 annual fee, especially if you tend to cluster your Amazon shopping around the holidays.
Well guess what? You can sign up for Amazon Prime one month at a time if you only need it for a short time! [Read more…]
For years now study after study has shown that about 25% of all PCs worldwide operate without effective protection from viruses and hacking attacks.
Most of those vulnerable systems have antivirus software installed, but that software offers little protection because the owners fail to take steps to keep the malware definition files updated.
Many people think that just having an antivirus program installed on a PC is enough to keep malware and hackers at bay, but nothing could be further from the truth. [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger, you’re probably familiar with Chitika.
If you aren’t familiar with them, they’re very similar to Google’s popular Adsense contextual ad service.
In fact, Chitika is where many bloggers who were turned down for admission to the Adsense program (or got booted from it) ended up turning to earn revenue from their blogs.
Although Chitika never really gained a lot of traction against the ultra-popular Adsense, they did serve as a vital source of income for quite a few bloggers who were unable to take advantage of the Adsense program for whatever reason.
If you currently have Chitika ads running on your blog(s), I have some bad news for you: The service has been shut down, effective immediately.
If you’re a Windows user you’re probably very familiar with the need to “Eject” your removable drives before disconnecting them from your PC.
In the past Microsoft has always cached the data written to removable media to make the system run a little faster.
That meant we had to “Eject” a removable drive before disconnecting it from the PC to prevent losing any cached, but unwritten data and possibly corrupting the drive’s file system.