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Question from Carl: Hi Rick. I hope you can help me with something that’s driving me nuts because I can’t figure it out.
My wife and I both use Chrome as the default browser on our phones. It used to have a really handy feature where we could search for a word on a web page just by tapping on it.
Now something has happened and that doesn’t work anymore. Do you know if there’s anything we can try to get it to work again? We really miss it!
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great week!
As you already know, technology advances so rapidly these days that it’s hard to keep up with the latest developments in computer hardware, mobile devices, software and such.
But one thing that will never change is the need to safeguard our physical possessions, our privacy, and our identities from thieves and hackers. It’s sad, but the world is full of people who will steal from us and wreak havoc with our lives if we give them the opportunity.
With that in mind, here are a few simple tips for protecting yourself and your most precious assets in the new year: [Read more…]
GoPro has become one of the world’s most popular camera brands thanks to their line of amazing action cameras.
Adventurous folks use GoPro gear
To celebrate the passing of 2015, GoPro has put together a short video featuring some of the best action captured by their cameras during the year 2015. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. [Read more…]
Today’s top-selling gaming laptops can hold their own against many of the most powerful desktop PCs. It seems that their CPUs get faster, their RAM gets bigger and their graphics cards get more powerful by the day.
While the fantastic MSI G Series GE72 Apache Pro-003 17.3″ Gaming Laptop isn’t the most powerful gaming laptop your money can buy, it is definitely one of the most powerful laptops you can buy without having to sell the farm or take out a mortgage in order to pay for it.
Although this computer is billed as a “gaming laptop”, it also makes a fantastic general purpose computer or business PC thanks to features like these at such a reasonable price: [Read more…]
Hello again everyone. I hope you all had a great week!
Modern Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports have replaced a number of older data transmission technologies over the years due to its increased speed and dead-simple ease of use.
Nowadays we can buy a wide variety of USB devices such as USB printers, external USB hard drives and USB flash drives that make our day-to-day lives so much easier than they were just a few years ago.
There are currently two generations of USB technology in common use: USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.
USB 3.0 offers a couple of important advantages over the older (yet still widespread) USB 2.0: [Read more…]