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Does your fitness routine include jogging? How about walking or bicycling?
If you do any of these activities, a free mobile app called Runkeeper will give you up-to-the-second, real-time info about how far you have gone so far, and how fast.
Runkeeper works with your phone’s GPS radio to establish your current location, the distance you have traveled, your speed, and even your current elevation! [Read more…]
Question from David: Unlike the Windows Media Player included in Windows Vista Home Premium, the version in Windows 7 Home Premium on my Samsung laptop does not have a Menu Bar. Is there a way to add or enable one?
Rick’s answer: Try this David:
1 – Launch Windows Media Player.
2 – Press the Alt key by itself and you’ll see a menu pop up.
3 – Click the Show menu bar option.
Note: Pressing the Alt key in most Windows programs will display the “File menu” in situations where it isn’t already displayed by default.
That should do it David. Please let me know if it works for you.
Update from David: Yes it does. Many thanks.
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Popular music service Spotify has announced that their servers have been breached by hackers, but they seem to believe that there is little for their users to worry about.
This attack is the latest in a spurt of hacks that have plagued a number of online services and brick and mortar retail chains in recent months. [Read more…]
Question from David H.: My brother gave me his old HP Pavilion Elite HPE-120f desktop computer after the hard drive died. The shop returned the computer to him without the hard drive in it and I need to know what kind of hard drive to buy for it.
Also, I don’t have a set of factory Restore discs for this computer. Will HP send me a set?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Rick’s answer: David, your HP Pavilion Elite HPE-120f most likely came from the factory with a 1TB SATA hard drive, so virtually any 3.5″ SATA hard drive will work in that system.
That being said, instead of simply installing another hard drive, I recommend installing a solid state drive (#ad) as the boot drive and a spacious hard drive as a secondary data drive. [Read more…]
Well, another giant website has been hacked. This time it’s eBay, the iconic online auction site and digital marketplace.
eBay issued a statement this morning saying that hackers have managed to steal customer names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and encrypted account passwords. In other words, this one is BIG folks.
If you have an eBay account, you need to log in and change your password immediately. You might also want to start monitoring your credit reports along with your bank account and credit card statements just to be on the safe side.
Important: Please consider sharing this in order to warn as many of your friends as possible.