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You installed a brand new DVD drive, or hard drive and the thing didn’t work. You returned it and got another one, it didn’t work either. What is going on here? It very likely could be the master slave setting. You see computers aren’t that smart they can’t even tell which drive should go first in line. If you have a SATA system it doesn’t matter for you because each  [ Read More ]

There are some bad people out there, and many of them know how to use the internet. Social media sites connect people but not all of them are worth connecting to. There are many predators, and some are posing as kids to lure children into danger. In 2009 Facebook removed nearly 6,000 registered sex offenders from its lists no doubt there are thousands more. So monitor your children when they  [ Read More ]

You didn’t do anything different, you didn’t ask for this. However the tech who cleaned your computer says that you had to accept the virus or click on something that permitted it on your computer. Suddenly every one is a suspect, you know you didn’t do it, so who did? Mostly likely it was you, you just didn’t know it. You might have been clickjacked. Clickjacking is taking some hidden  [ Read More ]

Irritated by your internet experience? Would you love to download any video you would like? Is there something you want to do online but it just won’t let you? I have been there too, but I found a solution, Firefox. Firefox is an internet browser and it is my personal favorite. What makes it so good in my point of view? The add-ons, hands down. Install Firefox for yourself, and  [ Read More ]

How can you speed up your computer? ReadyBoost is a Windows feature perfected with Windows 7. It makes it possible for you to use USB flash drives to speed up your computer. You can use SD memory cards, flash drives pretty much any kind of flash memory card. Windows 7 can use ReadyBoost on up to 8 devices at the same time, giving you a maximum of 256GB of extra  [ Read More ]