Inside The Insider #6 – Can The iPad 3 Replace A Laptop?

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In this week’s Inside The Insider, I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week. Can the iPad 3 Replace A Laptop? Resource to control WHEN email is sent using Gmail 5 Ways To Keep Your [...]

iPad 3 Reactions Are Hilarious… And Stupid

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As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Apple announced the iPad 3 – or as they’re calling it, the “new iPad” – on Wednesday. The summary is that it has a retina display, 4G support, and some more graphics horsepower (which it would need in order to pump all those pixels). Now, like a lot [...]

Inside The Insider #5 – Cutting The Cord

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In this week’s Inside The Insider, I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week. And there were a LOT of people who signed up last week. Cutting The Cord: Getting rid of cable TV and [...]

Inside The Insider #4 – Dropbox Edition

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In this week’s Inside The Insider, I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week. Creative Uses For Dropbox, some non-obvious ways to use the Dropbox service. Getting a virtual desktop… in the cloud. Minimizing the [...]

Inside The Insider #3 – Evernote Edition

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In this week’s Inside The Insider, I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week. How to get started using Evernote (a lot of people are confused how to integrate it into their lives. We’ll help.) [...]

Inside the Insider #2: Accounting Edition?

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Computer problems messed with me on the laptop, so this week I took to my iPhone to record this week’s “Inside The Insider”. I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week. Thanks to everybody. And, [...]

Inside The Insider #1 – Kickoff Edition

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Big changes are afoot around here. And, if you’re on our mailing list, you probably already know that. I’m about to send out The Insider, Issue #2 to members. In this video, I tell you what’s inside this issue, and I send out a “thank you” to the 44 people who signed up in the [...]

In Support Of the SOPA Protest

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Today (Jan 18th) is a large-scale protest day to SOPA/PIPA. No doubt, you’ve heard all about it. Many large websites are going black today in protest of the bill, including Wikipedia, WordPress and Google (in the form of a censored logo). If I had more time available, I might have set things up to black [...]

How To Hide An External Hard Drive From Your Desk Space

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External hard drives are great. As an iMac user (yeah yeah, whatever )… I make use of external hard drives for backup purposes and redundancy. The thing is, they take up space. And then there’s a wire on your desk. If you’re trying to get rid of desktop clutter, then a good option is to [...]

Reimage – Make Windows Sparkly Clean Without Reinstalling

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Over the last couple of weeks, PCMech has had a new sponsor: Reimage. We’re happy to be working with Reimage – especially because this software is truly unique and actually does what it says it will do. Here’s what Reimage will do for you… The scan (which you can do for free) gives the user [...]

Louis CK Online Sale Grosses $1M: Could YOU Do The Same?

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Louis CK is a pretty well-known comedian. And honestly, one of my favorites. And he’s been generating some online news lately because of his sale of Live at the Beacon Theater. He produced it himself and took the sale directly to the Internet for $5/pop. And, as he said: No DRM, no regional restrictions, no [...]

Google Extends Deal To Keep Firefox Afloat

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I don’t think it is much of a secret that Mozilla (the company behind Firefox) depends on Google to a very large degree for its own existance. Google pays Mozilla a big (yet, undisclosed) sum of money to keep Google as the default search engine in the Firefox browser. Without that revenue, Mozilla probably wouldn’t [...]

How To Record Awesome DSLR Videos Without An External Mic Jack

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Digital SLR cameras take awesome photos. We all know that. However, any of them built within the last couple years or so usually also include the ability to record videos. Due to the optics of a DSLR, the video quality is AMAZING. They really blow away traditional video cameras in a lot of ways. The [...]

How To Make Rows Skinnier In The New Gmail Theme

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Google is in the process of officially rolling out the new Gmail theme. My own account froze for a minute or so today, then rolled back online with the new design and an intro video. But, change isn’t easy. While most of the changes are totally OK with me, one thing I didn’t like was [...]

PCMech.com will set up a website for you – FOR FREE

Today is “Black Friday”, which means everybody is out looking for bargains. Well, how about one you can actually use? It is web hosting by Hostgator. And, for TODAY ONLY,  you can save 50% on any new Hostgator account. This means you can get good, solid hosting for as little as $2.48/month. Have your own website - for as little [...]

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