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If you’re staying with Windows 7 or 8.1 to avoid Windows 10’s privacy issues, you need to read this.

Posted on September 2, 2015

snoopingBy now you have probably heard that by default, Windows 10 is pretty nosy about your browsing and computing habits. After all, the new Windows’ privacy issues have been well documented.

If you’ve made the decision to skip the upgrade to Windows 10 in order to avoid those privacy concerns, guess what? A handful of recent Windows Updates have brought some of Windows 10’s nosy “tracking features” to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.  [Read more…]

Awesome news: New update to Chrome kills auto-playing Flash ads

Posted on September 1, 2015

chrome-browser-logoDon’t you hate it when you have several Chrome tabs open and all of a sudden one of them starts playing a video ad at full volume?

I sure do because those stealthy (and irritating) video ads that pop up out of nowhere are often startling and almost always difficult to track down and pause.

Well, thankfully auto-playing Flash ads are now a thing of the past in Chrome (or at least they soon will be on your machine).  [Read more…]

Sprint now offering DirecTV customers a year of free service to switch from AT&T

Posted on August 30, 2015

sprint-logoSprint is now offering a full year of free cellular service to any DirecTV customer who switches from AT&T to Sprint between August 28 and September 30, 2015.

Now that AT&T has merged with DirecTV, Sprint is hoping to lure as many AT&T customers over to their side as they possibly can to combat the newly announced AT&T/DirecTV bundles.

The free service that Sprint is offering to DirecTV customers includes unlimited talk, unlimited text and 2 GB of data per line on up to five lines, all while on the Sprint network.  [Read more…]

30 years of Microsoft Windows

Posted on August 24, 2015

windows-1-point-0-logoIt’s hard to believe, but the operating system that we all tend to either love or hate is now 30 years old.

Microsoft released Windows 1.0 way back in 1985, and now 30 years later Windows is still the 800 pound gorilla of the computer world.  [Read more…]

Apple repairing some iPhone 6 Plus devices due to blurry images

Posted on August 23, 2015

iphone-6-plusApple’s iPhone 6 Plus has earned a reputation for taking amazing photos with its integrated iSight camera, but some of the phones have been found to capture blurry images.

The problem is caused by a defective component in some of the iSight camera modules that were installed on phones sold between September 2014 and January 2015.

If your iPhone 6 Plus is producing blurry photos, enter its serial number on this page to see if it qualifies for a free replacement iSight camera module. If it does, you’ll find information on that page explaining how to go about having your phone serviced.

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