UPDATED: March 23 2024 As Sony Playstations age, the interest in upgrading them increases. Slow spinning drives that were included in the PlayStation 4 are easily changed for high speed Solid State Drives (SSD)’s, That can make a substantial difference to both gameplay and load times. A used PS4 is Read more…
We pull the back off a Dell Inspiron 5493, explain the parts and show the basic parts including battery, M.2 hard drive and the clips that hold the ribbons on. Then we wipe it clean, install Windows 10 1909, patch it, benchmark it and compare it to similar laptops.
There are three common types of touchscreens: 1 – Capacitive Invented in 1965, started catching on by mid 1980’s A capacitive touch screen consists of a glass panel with a capacitive (charge storing) material coating its surface. Circuits located at corners of the screen measure the capacitance of a person Read more…
Recently we were asked to review the Fifine K052 microphone and hummed and hahed about it. It’s a microphone… its just not that exciting. In the end we agreed because this is a mid $20 mic with a dynamic range of 40hz to 20Khz and this company is an upstart Read more…
We find out if different M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD’s are all the same. In a Dell 5300 2 in 1 we test the Dell supplied Micron 2200S, a Crucial P1 and a Adata XPG S11 using Novabench benchmarking tool. We also show how to swap out the SSD’s in the Read more…
If this video we fully explore the Dell Precision T7920 workstation. The T7920 we are demonstrating on has two Intel Xeon sockets but only one of them populated. We did this to allow for future expansion to protect our investment. We: Unbox Perform a basic disassembly Install two sets of Read more…
If you schedule a YouTube Live Stream on your PC and then start the Live Stream from your cell, your cell will NOT show the scheduled event. This means if you plan to use your cell phone to livestream a future event, but need to set up links to it Read more…
Even if you don’t think you know what a Captcha is, I will guarantee you have used them before. A Captcha is a program or system intended to distinguish human from machine input, typically as a way of thwarting spam and automated extraction of data from websites. Let’s quickly go Read more…
WordPress is the number one web management tool on the planet which makes it the largest target for hackers. If you have a WordPress web site you should be very concerned with security. Fortunately there are five fast and easy things you can do to dramatically improve your sites security posture: Read more…
We explain and demonstrate how to change a standard full height card to a low profile / half height card for a PCI expansion slot. In particular we swap EVGA GT1030 2GB card brackets
You have probably been using Windows 10 for many years now and because Microsoft updates it so frequently, useful new features are easy to miss. In this video we explain 12 new features, tips & tricks from recent versions of Windows 10: Clipboard History Timeline / Task View Snip & Read more…
We explain, configure and install the Dell Ultra Speed Drive Quad NVMe M2 Disk PCIe Adapter using Windows Storage Spaces with Resiliant File System (ReFS). This Dell PCIe x16 NVMe adapter can host up to 4x NVMe M.2 solid state drives, providing super fast I/O of up to 9GB/s sequential Read more…
Microsoft Kaizala is an innovative chat tool designed for highly decentralized and/or frequently changing groups. What makes it different from Teams or Skype is the way users register. They only need a cell phone number and not a username and password. Kaizala is Indian (ok… specifically the Marahi) word for Read more…
If you want a realistic pencil / pen / highlighter drawing of a circle in PowerPoint you can do it with INSERT – SHAPE – CURVE, a few minor formatting changes and then ANIMATIONS – WHEEL
Thanks to our sister site PartisanIssues.com for this short video and article It may be counter intuitive but Microsoft actually increased output by 40% in its 2500 person Japanese operations by mandating three day weekends in August 2019. Most of the performance gains came from: reduced meeting length the majority Read more…
This short video explains how you can easily and quickly remove every second row in an Excel worksheet using the Filter function.