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Buying a computer monitor or TV screen can be overwhelming with all the confusing acronyms and marketing jargon, but at its core, the entire display market revolves around just two technologies.: OLED and LCD. If you have decided the OLED screens are just too expensive or you don’t like their Read more
If you’ve followed our site for a while, you know we’re focused on efficiency and getting maximum value, whether we’re talking about wireless technology or the software tools we use to run the site. For years, like many WordPress publishers, we relied on the Yoast SEO plugin. It was the Read more
If you’ve ever hit the easy “Promote” button in YouTube Studio, you know the setup is simple, until the campaign is disapproved. You’re then caught in an administrative black hole: you can’t manage the “Promotion” in Google Ads, and you have no appeal option in YouTube Studio. I just spent Read more
You know the big name in action cameras, but GoPro’s cost an arm, a leg, and requires a separate purchase for every single accessory. The problem, as always, is the price. The solution is the iZeeker IA200. If your goal is to capture high-quality, stable 4K video of your adventures Read more
The frame rate of movies remains one of the most persistent sources of confusion in modern digital cinema. I worked in Canada’s largest drive in theaters as a kid and often spliced film reels together for our super bright projector and I know real film runs at 24 frames per Read more
RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) tags, were absolutely revolutionary 20 years ago. It allowed a tiny “tag”, worth only about $0.25 each, with no battery, to broadcast a unique ID when hit by radio waves from a dedicated scanner. This is how “tap to pay” works on your credit card, debit card Read more
I recently had an exchange with David, the owner of an old-school Windows application called the ConTEXT Editor. My initial thought, which I shared with him, was the same one you’re likely having: “Why does this software even exist when the free and powerful Notepad++ is everywhere?” His answer was Read more
While working on some new YouTube videos, one of our Producers, thought we should add some hashtags (ya’ know… #Something), but others thought Hashtags mostly drive viewers to other peoples videos. We did a fair amount of research and this is what we found: The Hashtag Dilemma: Rankings vs Retention Read more
Here is our review of the Dell Inspiron 14 Plus 7440. When you’re dealing with a machine that ships already maxed out with a glorious 32GB of RAM, the whole debate about “soldered trash” evaporates. That’s right, the unit reviewed here is a 32GB Intel Core Ultra 9 powerhouse, meaning Read more
As the internet continues to grow, so do the scams that attempt to exploit it. One of the more cunning scams targets website owners and a valuable asset they possess: their domain name. What makes this scam so dangerous is how it mimics a legitimate process used by companies like Read more
One of our techs was asked to make a hardware change on a Dell server but she let us know she had never actually touched a physical server. She spent her tech training and work life on virtual machines, but all those VM’s run on real physical servers, so we Read more
Recently our hosting company disabled our sites, including www.URTech.ca, for a few hours because a “bot” was crawling and scraping the sites which was consuming far too much CPU: System administration has identified your account as using higher resources on the server housing your account. Unfortunately, this increased resource usage Read more
In the modern digital landscape, the phrase “those who fail to adapt to AI will be left behind” has never been more relevant than when applied to the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence. Many professionals, creators, and students still view AI as a distant, complex, or expensive technology reserved Read more
Is your Dell Latitude 5440 laptop (or 3340, 5340 or 5350 or many other modern Dell laptops) no longer holding a charge like it used to? A dying battery can significantly hinder your productivity, but the good news is that YOU can replace it yourself with a few simple tools Read more
We recently wrote an article explaining how to set Bosgame MiniPC to automatically power up after a power outage. Shortly after we received several emails from readers wanting to know how to set resume after power fail on their brand so we compiled the following table to help everyone. Because Read more
Have you ever looked at your PC’s BIOS setup utility, that screen you see before Windows or Linux loads, and wondered why it looks so different from one computer to the next? Some are sleek, graphical, and mouse-friendly, while others look like they were pulled straight from the 1980s. The Read more