Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Think fast: What type of graphics card do you have? How much hard-drive space is free on your work laptop? How fast is your processor? The average person probably doesn’t know the answers to these questions off the top of his or her head — and that makes sense. But if you’re …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Did you know that you can purchase 1,000 Twitter followers for just $12? That’s right: if you’re willing to drop some cash, you can be a bonafide Twitter celeb in less than a week. Or can you? It doesn’t matter whether you have 20 or 2,000 followers — you always want more, because more followers means more …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Maybe your co-worker played a prank on you, or maybe you were (recklessly) fooling around with the language settings on your PC. Now your entire computer is in Japanese and you have no idea how to fix it. Here’s how to change your language settings back to English — even if you can’t read enough Japanese to …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Tech companies can have fun, too! Google is well-known for its nerdy sense of humor, which includes April Fools’ Day pranks (Google Apps for Business Dogs, anyone?) and Easter eggs hidden throughout the company’s numerous products. I’m not talking about the Easter eggs you hunt down on Sunday morning — I’m talking about hidden jokes created by …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET One thing that’s noticeably missing from the new Windows 10 Settings menu is the system image backup utility. A system image backup is basically an exact copy (“image”) of a drive — in other words, you can use a system image to completely restore your computer, settings and all, in the event of a PC disaster. Microsoft …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET In January, Microsoft revealed that Windows 10 will ship with a brand-new browser, code-named Project Spartan. Spartan is a modern, lightweight browser that Microsoft hopes to deploy across multiple devices to give you a “single browsing experience,” similar to Google Chrome. Spartan is also faster than Internet Explorer, thanks to a new rendering engine called “Edge.” While …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Windows Update has been the bane of my existence — until now. Here’s why: While I appreciate the convenience of automatic downloads and installs, I do not appreciate automatic restarts. Luckily, Windows 10 now lets you schedule restarts for a specified time, no more “Remind me in 4 hours” pop-ups! In the Windows 10 Technical Preview, Windows …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET I’m a serious procrastinator – so serious that I usually end up ignoring shipping deadlines before major holidays, which means that I usually end up scrambling to find gifts in the $1 aisle at Target. Yeah. Don’t be me. Actually, with technology, you don’t have to be me — because everything, or at least everything that matters, …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET In Windows 10’s File Explorer, the Favorites section you know and love (maybe) has gotten a makeover. The new Quick Access is similar in principle to the old Favorites section — it’s a place where you can pin your favorite files for, well, “quick access” — just with a few added features, namely an automatically populated list …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET If you haven’t made your Valentine’s Day plans yet, you may be in trouble — especially this year. Why? Because this year the heart-filled holiday falls on a Saturday. Yeah, and you thought last year was bad, when V-Day was on a Friday. Trust me, this will be even worse: no Friday fatigue, no early morning workday, …
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