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Use Apple or Android smartphones without SIM card and a mobile service provider Difference between smartphones without SIM card and a SIM-only deal Using smartphones without SIM card. – When you buy a SIM-free smartphone, it comes without a SIM card. You buy a SIM-only phone deal from a mobile service provider that provides the…
Bitdefender review – The best Internet security software currently available Bitdefender review. – The company, established in 2001, provides all kinds of first-rate Internet antivirus and identity-protection software. Visit the company’s website to see the full range for yourself. Under the For Home heading on the website, the PRODUCTS and SERVICES are for the PC,…
Smart TV Snooping – Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) – How to turn it off The power of Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) snooping technology Smart TV snooping uses Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology The TV sends information over the Internet to the snoopers who want to make money from your private viewing habits. Either using the…
Use a USB flash drive to update/flash BIOS on MSI, Asus, Gigabyte, ASRock motherboards The days are long gone when it was a dodgy but necessary business to use a floppy disk and drive to update/flash the BIOS of a make/model of motherboard. When a failed update could render your computer completely useless, requiring the…
PSU choice is a very important consideration when building or buying a new desktop PC If the power supply unit (PSU) doesn’t function properly in any kind of computer, none of the other components will be able to function properly. Therefore, the PSU is at the top of the food chain. Unfortunately, the manufacturers tend…
Ultrawide monitors – Facts and figures, pros and cons The arrival of ultrawide monitors – Aspect ratios PC monitors have become wider compared to their height since flat-screen technology began advancing from around 2005 when the aspect ratio was a squarish 4:3. In 2010, the arrival of widescreen monitors, with a 16:9 aspect ratio, brought…
Why Win10/Android phones are the best match for Windows 10 users, not iPhones Understandable from a competitive point of view, Windows 10 caters most for Android smartphones instead of Apple’s iPhone. Indeed, for that reason, the future of Windows 10 itself depends on Android. Apple’s iOS operating system runs iPhones, which operates an exclusive…
The amazing AMD Ryzen 5000 series desktop-PC processors are available now According to the reviews from the major computer-hardware websites, AMD has put itself in the driving seat in the desktop PC market after trailing Intel for decades. The change of guard began in 2017 with the release of the first series of Ryzen CPUs.…
What you need to know about DDR4 RAM memory There are currently four types of DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM memory that desktop and laptop PCs use – DDR, DDR2, DDR3 and DDR4. The latest type is DDR4. The release date for DDR5 memory was July 14, 2020, but it will take a fairly long…
TPM chassis intruded BIOS fatal error message appears at system startup preventing boot The image above shows an error message that an American Megatrends (AMI) BIOS has brought up at system startup. Until the user fixes the problem, the computer won’t boot. The message is at the end and says: Intel CPU uCode loading error…
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