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Comment by Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. on Build Your Own PC? (my advice) (June 8, 2025 12:33 AM)
My first PC was a Gateway IBM-compatible/clone, powered by an Intel 8088 CPU, a 100MB MFM internal hard drive, 640MB RAM, and a VGA-compatible color d...

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Comment by Wolf on Turbocharge Your Browser (Chrome and Edge tips) (June 5, 2025 08:57 PM)
These are some excellent tips! I was wondering if you can do an article on getting rid of (uninstalling) browsers, which one does NOT want. I always ...

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Comment by Penny on Turbocharge Your Browser (Chrome and Edge tips) (June 5, 2025 10:09 AM)
Excellent help...

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Comment by RandiO on Turbocharge Your Browser (Chrome and Edge tips) (June 5, 2025 02:39 AM)
Thank you for all that you do for us, BobRankin In Edge, is there a way to change auto-focus to the link opened in a new tab (Ctrl+LeftClick)? ...

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Comment by Charley on Turbocharge Your Browser (Chrome and Edge tips) (June 4, 2025 06:00 PM)
Most of those shortcuts (e.g., typing 60*60, control-shift-t, etc.) also work on Firefox....

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Comment by Bob on Geekly Update - 29 May 2025 (May 30, 2025 04:19 AM)
Rise of the machine... when your toaster sacrifices itself for the better part of the whole, and burns down your house....

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Comment by BillP on Geekly Update - 29 May 2025 (May 30, 2025 01:32 AM)
At the homeless shelter where i volunteer, there's a publicly accessible computer for people to check job listings, etc, that cannot upgrade to Win 10...

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Comment by Richard on Geekly Update - 29 May 2025 (May 29, 2025 10:34 PM)
Hmmm... I want Perplexity to summarise that video for me ... but I don't know how yet....

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Comment by Pete on Geekly Update - 29 May 2025 (May 29, 2025 09:12 PM)
super vision sounds great! The dog can't hide any more in the woods! Thanks!!!...

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Comment by BDD on Your Next Printer: Laser, Inkjet or All-In-One? (May 29, 2025 05:49 AM)
I bought a (cheap) wireless cannon printer the wireless option is the way to go. That said I kept getting error messages saying the printer door is op...

In my October 2018 article “The Web’s Creator Is Doing Us A Solid” I wrote that Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, was “devastated” and “sickened” by what has become of it. He had hatched a plan to re-invent and decentralize the Web, complete with privacy controls and individual ownership of personal data. So what’s happened since then? Read on…

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Technology advances with ever-increasing speed, and with quantum computers promising mind-boggling speed breakthroughs, what will the future of the Internet look like? How will advances in physics affect computers, networking, encryption, and privacy? Let's look ahead to the Quantum Internet...

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Today is the last day of 2018, so it seems fitting to look ahead to the future. What will the future of the Internet look like? How will advances in physics affect computers, networking, encryption, and privacy? Let's look ahead to the Quantum Internet…

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