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Question from Daniel G.: Hi Rick. I just noticed something that has me puzzled and I hope you can help me understand how it works.
Last night I downloaded a game and installed it on my computer, and it runs just fine.
The thing that’s puzzling me is the game was a 30GB download but it runs on my computer even though it only has 8GB of RAM.
What trick are they using to shoehorn 30GB of code into 8GB of RAM? Is it compressed somehow?
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Have you seen the new ads from Comcast promoting their Xfinity Mobile service?
If you have, you probably think it sounds like a pretty good deal.
Well, that “deal” is about to get a lot worse. [Read more…]
With more people now use mobile devices to access the Internet than laptops or desktop computers, I’m always on the lookout for best mobile web browsers.
Opera Mini has been my favorite mobile browser for a good while now, but I’m beginning to re-think that choice now that I’ve used Microsoft Edge for Android for a while.
Microsoft included their new Edge browser as a replacement for the much-maligned Internet Explorer in Windows 10, and I really like it.
Edge is fast, clean and easy to use. I tend to use multiple browsers simultaneously on my work PC because every browser just seems to work better with specific websites that I use on a daily basis. [Read more…]
I’ve been testing and writing about external battery packs for mobile devices for years, but the typical model is only good for three or four charges of a smart phone, at most.
What’s more, if you want to recharge multiple devices at once, you’re simply out of luck!
But now there’s something a lot more powerful than the typical portable charger.
Put simply, the Intocircuit Portable Charger PC26000 is a high power / high capacity external battery pack and charger that will charge multiple devices all at the same time. [Read more…]
Question from Tom J.: I have a 4TB Seagate external hard drive that recently came down with a bunch of bad sectors even though it’s only about 2 years old.
A friend of mine said I could do a low level format of the drive to lock out the bad sectors and the rest of the drive would work just fine.
What’s your opinion on this? I hate to just trash a drive that large when it still has most of its capacity available, but I don’t want to risk losing my files either.
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