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View all →March 6, 2015
How To Fix Repeating Black Boxes in a Row in Microsoft Word
How to fix repeating black boxes that appear in a row on Microsoft Word. What causes them and how to stop them from happening.
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March 2, 2015
iPhone 6S & 6S Plus Rumor Round-up
Curious about what the Apple iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus features may be? Here's a round up!
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February 27, 2015
The Epson XP-820 is a Tiny “Small-In-One” Printing, Scanning, Copying & Faxing Powerhouse
Review the Epson Expression Premium XP-820 - a Tiny “Small-In-One" Printing, Scanning, Copying & Faxing Powerhouse, with tons of connectivity features.
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January 19, 2015
The NETGEAR AC750 WiFi Range Extender Solved My Yosemite WiFi Problems
Review of the NETGEAR AC750 WiFi Range Extender which can help fix Yosemite WiFi issues.
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December 30, 2014
How to Reset the TeamViewer ID After Cloning a Mac
Recently, I set up a new MacBook Pro for my step-mom where I used Apple’s Migration Assistant to easily copy over all of her data, applications and preferences. One of the applications that I actually use on her machine is TeamViewer which is fanstanstic if you need to provide remote assistance to a Mac or PC (you can actually set up a…
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December 24, 2014
Kids on Cell Phones Too Much? “Lock” Them in a Book #LifeHack
As like many other parents out there, my wife and I constantly battle with our kids about their cell phones and when it is ok to use them. If left to roam freely, I’m sure our kids would be glued to the tiny glowing screens 24/7 with bits of their mushy brain running out of their ear as they turned…
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December 22, 2014
How To Replace a MacBook Pro Keyboard after a Liquid Spill
Liquid and laptop keyboards are not a match made in heaven in any way. In fact, if you don’t act quickly, a liquid spill will fry out the circuitry in your laptop very quickly. I recently received a mid-2012 MacBook Pro (MBP) 15” with Retina display from a family member who spilled some coffee on it. A row of keys…
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December 15, 2014
20 Things to “Jump” About DISH TV, Hoppers & Joeys
Uh, this review is a bit overdue. Originally, I was going to write about DISH's "new" Hopper and Joey hardware I actually started this review back in September 2012. But for one reason or another, I kept holding off. Part of me wanted to really use this new hardware for a while in order to fully understand it. Another part…
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December 8, 2014
Connected Working (or Playing) on the Go with the AT&T Unite Pro
I started writing this review sitting on the sand at Stinson Beach, CA. I had the football game streaming on my WiFi-only iPad, my MacBook Air was connected to the Internet where I was uploading and downloading photos I had taken for this review, and I was synching my article with Evernote as the waves crashed in the background. My…
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December 1, 2014
Drones, Beats and Radio Shack Means #GiftSmart Shopping
Who doesn’t like when holiday gifts arrive early! And normally, you just stick those gifts under the tree or save them to open at the appropriate time, but in this case, I needed to open the package right away. The funny thing is, I knew what the gift contained and who it was from. But that didn’t matter, I couldn’t…
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November 24, 2014
How to Fix Mac Office 2011 Crashing in Yosemite [UPDATED X3]
Recently, my version of Office for Mac (Office 2011), started crashing on my MacBook Pro. Every time I launched Word, Excel or PowerPoint, the app would crash after a few seconds with an error asking if I wanted to recover my work, reopen the Office app and send the error to Microsoft. It didn’t matter if I opened a document…
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November 22, 2014
10 Tips for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Users
When Apple releases new hardware and software, often times some of the newer features go un-noticed. People are generally used to doing things their own way…which is usually the “old” way. With the introduction of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus recently, new chips and screen sizes have enabled new features for those lucky owners of the new iOS large…
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