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Several people have messaged me recently asking about “driver update notices” that are popping up on their computers.
These messages are usually presented in pop-up windows or messages in the notifications area at the bottom-right corner of the screen.
Regardless of how these messages show up, many of them are outright scams.
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Question from Alan: Hi, Rick. I have a question for you.
I have a desktop PC that I use only for writing blog posts in Microsoft Word before uploading them to my WordPress blogs..
I plan to turn my blog posts into a series of books some day so I want to keep the posts stored on my hard drive in MS Word format.
Right now the 7 folders containing the posts and their associated images add up to a grand total of a little over 22 Gigabytes.
My question is do you see anything wrong with using a 64 GB USB thumb drive to hold backup copies of these 7 folders? [Read more…]
The world of finance is always in a state of constant movement and innovation, which means that people are always thinking of ways to make things more convenient.
One such innovation is P2P lending software and its solutions according to LenderKit. It has become increasingly popular with doubled market value in the last decade or so. This, as you can imagine, has brought forth a ton of questions. [Read more…]
If you’ve been on Facebook for a while you’ve probably seen a wide variety of quiz-style posts pop up in your Newsfeed.
There are many variations of these posts, but the most common ones are of the “What is your spirit animal?” or “Which celebrity do you look like?” type posts.
These posts can seem like they’re nothing more than just a bit of innocent fun, but the truth is they can be quite dangerous. [Read more…]
By now you probably know that adding a solid state drive (SSD) to most any computer will make it run a lot faster.
But did you know SSDs are now available as external USB drives?
An external USB 3.1 SSD basically offers the convenience of a USB flash drive along with the speed and storage capacity of an internal solid state drive!
I recently had the opportunity to check out the Samsung T5 Portable 2TB USB 3.1 SSD, and I immediately fell in love with it! [Read more…]