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Tips for Longer-Lasting Laptop Batteries

August 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Batteries, Computer Products, How To, Tips & Techniques

Hardware budgets are feeling the pinch of our tepid economy, and many companies are making employees use their laptops longer. If you are starting to tell your folks to keep plugging along with their laptops for four or five years instead of just three, you might be running into an unexpected expense: dead laptop batteries. [...]

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How to Keep Your Computer Running Fast and Smooth

June 15th, 2011 · No Comments · How To, How To Maintain, Q & A, Technology, Tips & Techniques

1 – Keep Your Desktop and Hard Disk Tidy Is your computer desktop your virtual dumping group? Storing files and/or lots of shortcuts on your computer’s desktop will demand more memory from the computer. It is ok to keep some commonly used items here (or better yet shortcuts) but don’t make a habit of sprawling [...]

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How to Block Websites

March 8th, 2011 · No Comments · How To Keep Secure

Most Internet users need to block websites at some point. Reasons for doing so include keeping known malicious or spam-ridden sites from being loaded onto the computer and preventing children from accessing adult or other content. Users may block a website via existing tools or browser options on the computer, third party applications, or browser [...]

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How to add more memory to your pc

March 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Tips & Techniques

Memory is one of the most vital components of a computer. Even if you use a computer for little else then email, word processing and surfing the web, your computer will slow without adequate memory. Much of this is due to the increased graphics present at websites which take a while to load without adequate [...]

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Adding a new video card to your computer

March 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Tips & Techniques, Video Cards

The first thing that you will want to do when adding a new video card to your computer is shut your computer down and make sure anything that you have connected is disconnected but leave the computer plugged into the surge protector. You will then want to remove the cover and put on the grounding [...]

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Tips To Help Protect Yourself Online

February 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Security, Tips & Techniques

The Internet world continues to get bigger by the day and with that comes people who will try and take advantage of you. Some will try to steal your passwords, banking information, as well as your identity. Identity theft is one of the biggest problems the average person deals with online. This article will outline [...]

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Key Steps to Do a Computer Upgrade

February 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Tips & Techniques

A lot of computer owners opt not to upgrade their own computers for many reasons. First, they have no knowledge about it. Second, they fear that they may bring more damage to their computers. Other reasons they have concern compatibility and warranty. But, their primary reason for not doing a computer upgrade is their belief [...]

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