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Question from Nancy H.: I just replaced the LG 42LN5400 42″ flat screen TV in my living room with a beautiful new 60″ model from Panasonic.
The LG still works great, and it has a fantastically sharp picture.
What I’d like to know is can I replace the ancient 20″ monitor that I’m using with my Gateway desktop PC with my now-spare 42″ TV? They both have HDMI ports. Thanks for your help.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
If you use the popular goo.gl URL shortener service from Google you’ll need to start using Bit.ly, Ow.ly or some other service to shorten (and optionally track) your URLs.
Google has just announced in a blog post that they’re planning to stop supporting the goo.gl service and transition existing users to their Firebase Dynamic Links service, starting this month.
As explained in their blog post, Google will be executing the transition in phases depending on the whether a user is new to goo.gl or already an existing user. [Read more…]
I often receive questions about updating the UEFI BIOS firmware on a computer’s motherboard.
Horror stories abound about firmware updates that went bad and bricked the devices so many folks are understandably nervous about attempting to update the BIOS on their own motherboards.
In a nutshell, the UEFI BIOS firmware is a basic set of instructions and settings that inform your CPU about the various hardware components that are inside your PC and how it should interact with them.
If this firmware get’s corrupted somehow one or more of your computer’s hardware devices could fail to operate correctly. [Read more…]
Modern smartphones and tablets make it easy to document the world around us by taking photos and capturing video with just a couple of taps on the screen.
We can then easily (and instantly) share those photos and videos with others by posting them on Facebook.
Well, the folks at Facebook have taken the ability to share our videos to an entirely new level with an awesome feature called Facebook Live.
In a nutshell, Facebook Live lets you record live audio and video of virtually any event in real time and share it on your Facebook Timeline so your Facebook friends can witness the event as it unfolds. [Read more…]
Hey, I have a news flash for you…
If you are a Facebook user, you have been labeled by Facebook as either “Liberal”, “Moderate” or “Conservative” in regards to your political leaning.
And guess what? You have been assigned a “political leaning” even if you NEVER make any posts that are political in nature.
How Facebook determines your political leaning is quite interesting… [Read more…]