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Tip of the Day: Laptop Battery Cycles
Laptop batteries have a life expectancy based on a limited number of cycles. New MacBooks for example, have a lifetime of 1,000 cycles while older models had 300 cycle batteries. Cycles are calculated by using a battery’s power completely. This can happen either on a single charge or spread across many subsequent charges. If you…
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Tip of the Day: Mac Sleep Slowdown
If you use a Mac and never turn it off, you may notice a slight slowdown eventually. To fix this, simply restart it and it should go back to normal! It is wise to restart your computer at least once a month to help keep the RAM “fresh”. Sidenote: Don’t get me wrong – the…
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Backups: Don’t wait until it’s too late
Nowadays, we all store our information on computers. We store our documents, spreadsheets, presentations, photos, videos, and even music on them. Have you noticed every time you buy a new computer it comes with more hard drive space? At first you think: “great! More space to hold all of my data!” – but wait!- What…
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Need placeholder images? Meet Lorempixel
Tell me if this sounds familiar: You are designing a website, poster, magazine article – or any other content for that matter – and just when you get to assign images and text to their respective positions you notice your client hasn’t sent any of the media you asked for two weeks ago. I know,…
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Today’s Question: Should I use a Drag & Drop website builder?
This is a question I have been getting a lot: How good are Drag & Drop website builders? Services like Wix, Weebly and Behance Prosite are showing up in advertising all around the Internet. These alternatives to custom website design are certainly appealing because of their low prices and apparent ease of use but –…
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Today’s Question: How can I make my computer faster?
If your laptop or desktop computer is feeling a tad slower than what it used to be, there are a few quick and easy things you can do to make it all better. In a meeting today with a client I was asked this seemingly trivial question: “How can I make my computer faster?”. It…
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Today’s Question: Why does my iPhone battery last so little?
iPhones are beautiful devices and are packed with great features, but having to recharge your phone every five hours – what is this, 1995? One would think that cell phone batteries have evolved quite a bit since the 90s – and they have – but our phones have evolved as well. Most of us are…
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Password Managers
[title size=”2″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]Do You Have Many Passwords?[/title] Are you having a hard time keeping track of them? Password management is becoming harder every day. We have many different accounts (webmail, banks, online stores, etc) each with their own definition of what a “strong” password should be [think: special characters] and…