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Question from Linda S.: I have a Dell 6430u Ultrabook and a Superspeed USB 3 Dell Docking Station. I am trying to decide on an external drive to back-up all my data and photos continuously.
Could you suggest an external USB hard drive that would be good to use?
I’m also worried about power overload for the docking station because when I plugged in a LaCie external drive I received a warning that it overloaded the USB port. Can you advise about that as well?
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If you’re been using Facebook for a while, I’m sure you’re familiar with this scenario:
You’re scrolling through your Facebook news feed when an interesting post catches your attention. You make a mental note to come back and read it later when you have more time, but when you search for it later you can’t find it again.
A while back I wrote a post explaining how to bookmark an individual post on Facebook. That process isn’t complicated and it works extremely well, but now Facebook has added a new feature that makes bookmarking posts that contain shared links a quick two-click process. Here’s how to do it: [Read more…]
Do you have an Apple device that’s running iOS 9? If so, Apple has just released a new update that you really need to install.
iOS 9.0.1 isn’t categorized as a critical update, but I believe it’s an important one because it fixes a number of bugs that cause various features and apps on your device(s) to behave in strange ways.
This update also fixes a bug that prevented some users from even being able to update their devices to iOS 9 in the first place.
Follow these steps to install the iOS 9.0.1 update: [Read more…]
Important: This post is no longer relevant since it discussed a one-day-only discount on an Amazon Prime membership. Also, the current annual price for an Amazon Prime membership is $119.
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If you’ve been wanting to take advantage of all the awesome benefits of an Amazon Prime membership, you now have a chance to sign up for only $67. That’s a whopping $32 off the regular $99 annual membership fee!
Amazon Prime provides way too many benefits to mention here, but I think the free 2-day shipping and free commercial ebooks are plenty enough to justify the regular price, let alone this discounted one. [Read more…]
In my opinion Windows 10 is the best version of Windows that Microsoft has ever released. It’s visually appealing, and for the most part it seems to work flawlessly.
As with every version of Windows, there are a few tweaks you can make to your Windows 10 installation that can greatly reduce your system’s startup time and make it run faster overall. [Read more…]