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Question from Craig: My friend and I got into a minor argument about the way you’re supposed to refer to a USB flash drive.
I call it a “thumb drive” and he says that’s incorrect.
I told him “thumb drive” is what lots of people call them and he told me they are wrong to call them that.
So in your opinion, which one of us it right? [Read more…]
Question from Nancy: How can I look at my Facebook profile the way strangers see it?
(By strangers I mean people who aren’t on my friends list.)
That way I’ll know what I need to change to prevent strangers from seeing things on my account that I don’t want them to see.
There are so many settings and it’s all so confusing! [Read more…]
I’m often asked if it’s really necessary to put a password on a Wi-Fi connection instead of just leaving it as an open network.
The reason they usually give is they want to make it easy for their guests to use their Wi-Fi during their visits.
I receive some variation of that question at least a couple of times every week, and my answer is always the same… [Read more…]
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Question from Shane: I recently found your blog, and I love it. Great job!
I took your advice and replaced the hard drive in my laptop with an SSD to make it run faster.
Everything seems to be working ok and the speed increase is incredible, but I’m worried that I might have possibly damaged something while I was swapping out the drives. [Read more…]
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If your family is like mine, you probably have a stack of CDs or DVDs containing numerous photos, videos, music or other precious files that can never be replaced.
Would you be heart-broken if you ever lost access to those precious, irreplaceable files? [Read more…]