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Storytelling is usually at the heart of any great piece of art.
And this is especially true with photography, an art form in which storytelling can evoke a wide range of emotions in your audience.
You might wonder exactly what storytelling in photography entails, and why photographs that tell stories are different to those produced by traditional photographic methods.
Simply put, visual, written and spoken stories all stimulate an essential facet of the human mind: our imagination. [Read more…]
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If you own a computer, chances are there will come a time when it will need to be repaired or tuned up a bit.
For example, you might start hearing strange noises or your most-used apps start crashing.
Or perhaps the system might start shutting down at random times or other irritating things begin to happen.
When something out of the ordinary pops up you’ll need to evaluate the situation and determine how you need to proceed. [Read more…]
By now you’re probably aware of the many fake gift card scams that are making the rounds on the Internet.
Well, now there’s a semi-offline version that’s affecting people nationwide here in the United States.
Question from Gail: I’m getting ready to buy a new computer.
My friend said I need to buy a Mac because Microsoft designed Windows 10 and Windows 11 to primarily be spy tools.
First of all, is that true? And if it is, why does Microsoft want to spy on people? [Read more…]
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Question from Ari: The hard drive in my 6 year old Dell Inspiron laptop died a few days ago. This has been a great machine and I don’t want to just trash it.
I’d like to replace the bad hard drive with an SSD, but I’d rather not spend a lot of money if I can help it.
After reading your post about Linux Mint I’d like to install it on this laptop and use it as my primary Internet computer. I won’t need a lot of storage space so a fairly small SSD should be ok.
What I’m looking for is the cheapest SSD I can get that’s large enough to hold the new Linux installation and maybe a few Chrome extensions. But I’d like the SSD to be as reliable as possible. [Read more…]