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Did you know Amazon has a fantastic ad-free music streaming service? Well, they do, and I love it!
It’s called Amazon Prime Music
Amazon Prime Music streams ad-free music directly to your computer or mobile device.
It works a lot like Pandora, but it’s like getting Pandora’s premium service without having to pay anything extra.
These days many of us choose to do much of our Christmas shopping online since it allows us to shop from home and save gasoline while avoiding the frustration of navigating the crowded stores.
As the world’s largest and busiest online marketplace, Amazon gets a massive chunk of the online Christmas shopping business.
Why? Because their selection can’t be beat, they offer competitive prices on literally millions of products, and their return policy is one of the best around.
Amazon also makes it easy to get free 2-day shipping on most anything you want to buy. Simply sign up for a free 30 day trial of Amazon Prime (#ad), and anything you order for the next 30 days will come with free 2-day shipping as long as your purchases are Prime eligible. [Read more…]
After years of trying to prop up the failing (and extremely insecure) Internet Explorer web browser, Microsoft finally saw the writing on the wall and made the decision to abandon it.
To that end, Microsoft developed their shiny new Edge browser and released it along with the initial release of Windows 10.
Luckily, Edge isn’t just an updated version of IE.
It’s in fact a brand new browser, built from the ground up with a new browser engine that supports all the latest web technologies right out of the box.
And truth be told, Edge is indeed a massive improvement over IE in terms of both speed and security.
The problem is, Edge never really gained a foothold in the browser market. In fact, as of November 2018 it still only had a minuscule percentage of the browser market share according to market research firm StatCounter.
Avast has announced that the current version of Avast Antivirus (version 18.8) is the last version that can be installed on PCs running either Windows XP or Windows Vista.
That means if your PC is still running either XP or Vista you won’t be able to update to the next version of Avast when it gets released next year.
Many Windows 10 users have discovered that their machine’s Windows installation has been deactivated, and a number of them have messaged me asking what’s going on.
In a nutshell, Microsoft is experiencing an issue with their Activation servers that’s causing some Windows 10 installations to lose their “Activated” status.