The Three Best Ways To Organize Your Laptop

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We spend so much time on our laptops these days. Our personal lives, business lives and social lives are all generally ran by these and our cell phones, which means they can get a little cluttered. This can be a nightmare as you’ll end up having files you never use and no longer need clogging up much valued space. However, there are ways to organize your laptop both swiftly and effectively.

The 5 Best PC’s for Gaming

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Gaming is one area in desktop PCs that is still as popular as ever, Paint may not have survived but gaming certainly has. When choosing a gaming PC there’s so many things to look out for. There’s so many things to look out for; a decent processor, a reliable motherboard, high quality graphic and, a solid cooling system, and that’s just internally.

From Zero to Hero: How to Become a Computer Guru

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The guru in the spiritual world is one who has achieved an enlightened state. It’s a Sanskrit term that implies that someone is a “teacher, guide or master” of certain knowledge. A guru helps to share their knowledge and to build the knowledge of others, so a computer guru is basically the Om Shanti Om of all things motherboards and cloud. You need one, or better yet – you need to be one.

Burning CDs from Albums

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Technology is quickly changing, even more so today. Many of you have found that while music has advanced to the CD, and actually honestly beyond that to simply MP3 files stored on devices such as IPODS and your personal cell phones, that there is a large stack of records just sitting in your basement. When growing up all of the records played music that you found relaxing or catchy, but now their technology is outdated and over the years the music has just become nostalgic and worth more to you. This presents a larger problem than just the storing of the music, but now you crave it again and want to hear the hits that you grew up to, without having to potentially wear down the remaining albums you have through repeated use or even risk breaking the albums or record player. Following these simple steps you can fix that problem and burn your classic albums onto CD-R disks.

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Ten Tips to Improve the Quality of Your Technical Support Experience

Ten Tips to Improve the Quality of Your Tech Support Experience

If you haven’t had a direct experience with technical support services yourself, then you’re at least no doubt familiar with the tech support experience of someone you know. In these digital days, it’s as inevitable as jury duty.

If the desktop computer doesn’t give you reason to call, then your mobile phone or wireless router will. Usually this entails time spent waiting for a support team member to become available, time spent explaining the problem to the team member, and time spent solving the problem. All the while real work and home related problems that need the dysfunctional device to be solved wait.

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Sleep Mode and Hibernate: What is the Difference?

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If you have ever owned a laptop, netbook, or another device that runs on a battery, chances are you have put that device to “sleep” when you have disconnected it from a power source. Many times when we use the device after putting it to sleep, it starts really quickly.

Backing Up Your Mac

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Backing up your Mac is an important task, and develop a robust data backup solution is a good idea. Imagine this scenario. You’ve just completed your Quarterly Business Review, a 20-page document with many graphs indicating the growth of your business over the last quarter. You’ve slogged over this document for a week and finally, you’re done.

By some freak accident, your kid drops your hot cup of coffee on your Mac and there’s a shorting in the wires. You are stuck now; your document was ready to be emailed to your business associates who were probably waiting for it right that minute but your computer is not accessible till it’s fixed.

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