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Did you know that you can link up your Android smartphone with Windows 10 to create a streamlined experience between the two devices? Once set up, you can browse the web, use apps, send emails, and do other tasks on your smartphone, then seamlessly switch to your PC and carry on those tasks where you…

In the 80s, if you wanted to play a game with your friend, you simply had to wait your turn. When the 90s came along, friends and siblings could enjoy playing at the same time. Today, we can enjoy playing with friends online, but the concept of “couch play” is nearly non-existent.  So we put…

Do you have an iPhone that you need to reset or restore? Do you need to perform a factory reset and erase everything or do you just need to reset certain settings because the phone is acting up? Or maybe you need to restore your iPhone from an iTunes backup or from iCloud? Also, you…

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, one of the biggest spending holidays is still on the horizon: Christmas! While savvy shoppers may have gotten their Christmas shopping out of the way during the year’s two biggest days for deals, there are more savings to come as retailers work to clear out their inventory…

While many people think of the internet as “WiFi” it’s actually just a final bridge between your device and the actual internet connection you’re using, whether that’s copper-based DSL, fiber, satellite or smoke signals. This means it’s entirely possible for the connection between your computer and the WiFi router to be successful while the internet…

With over 180 million user accounts, 15GB to 50GB free cloud storage, and end-to-end encryption why isn’t MEGA a household name yet? Why aren’t they mentioned in the same breath as Microsoft OneDrive, Apple iCloud, or Google Drive?  We’re going to review MEGA Cloud Storage, what MEGA offers, and why it may be for you.…

Oddly enough, I’ve been asked by many people recently how they can restore their computers to “factory settings”. Depending on how you look at it and version of Windows you are running, factory settings can mean several things. For me, factory settings means getting the computer back to the state when you first bought it.…

If you are interested in getting a DVD or Blu-ray drive to burn some data off to an external disc that you can store in a safe deposit box or for some other reason, then the sheer number of formats and versions can make the task quite confusing. For example, there are five different formats…

With the latest release of Windows, Windows 10, you can now worry less about keeping track of that pesky little product key that is always so important when activating Windows. Normally, you will never need it anyway, but there are cases when you need to reinstall Windows or change some hardware on your computer and…

The Surface Pen is a handy tool that lets you do cool things on your Surface PC. You can use it as a mouse and a keyboard. By default, your pen will act as a mouse. As one of Microsoft’s more recent features, the Surface Pen adds a layer of productivity that you don’t have…

AMD just shocked the consumer PC space with a powerful lineup of new AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs, which I recently covered on HDG. Is it finally time to make the switch from Intel to AMD? In this article, I take a look at AMD’s new Ryzen processors and offer some tips on which processor brand…