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10 Quick Ways to Speed Up a Slow Windows PC

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Windows PCs don’t have to slow down over time. Whether your PC has gradually become slower or it suddenly ground to a halt a few minutes ago, there could be quite a few reasons for that slowness. As with all PC issues, don’t be afraid to give your computer a reboot if something’s not working properly. This can fix quite a few problems and is faster than attempting to manually troubleshoot and fix the problem yourself. Find Resource-Hungry Programs Your PC is running slow because something is using up those resources. If it’s suddenly running slower, a runaway process might be using 99% of your CPU resources, for example. Or, an application might be experiencing a memory leak and using a large amount of memory, causing your PC to swap to disk. Alternately, an application might be using the disk a lot, causing other applications to slow down when they need to load data from or save it to the disk. To find out, open the Task Manager. You can right-click your taskbar and select the “Task M

How to Get the Most Out of Slack to Boost Your Group Productivity

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Just as its name implies, Slack is a great tool to pick up any of the “slack” that might be leftover whenever you try to coordinate multiple people on a single project, website, or coding effort. For anyone who’s out of the loop, Slack is a messaging platform that thousands of companies, websites, and independent agencies can use to create a common space where their employees, engineers, and creatives can come together to collaborate on any project of their choosing. Slack is is great for anyone might who find themselves struggling to maintain a central meeting portal that their growing list of freelancers, telecommuters, and onsite workers can talk with one another in one place. This is our guide on how you can get the most out of the online tool, along with a few tips and tricks you may not have known the tool is capable of. Initial Setup and The Chat Window To start, you’ll need to know how to add members to your chat channel, and email them so they can create their unique logins fo

How to Rip Audio CDs to Your PC or Mac

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If you haven’t ripped your music CDs to audio files on your computer yet, it’s not too late. All it takes is a CD drive and a bit of time. When you’re done, your physical music collection will become your digital music collection. You can then listen to that music on your computer or  copy it over to your smartphone . There are even many free services that will let you  store that music online and stream it from anywhere . Get a CD Drive If you don’t have a CD drive in your computer, that’s also not a problem. You can buy CD drives that connect to a laptop or any other computer over USB. You can buy external CD and DVD drives for as little as  $12 on Amazon . Once you have that drive, you can keep it on hand and use it whenever you need to use a CD or DVD on a computer that doesn’t have a CD drive. Many modern laptops — and even desktop PCs — no longer include CD drives. If your computer of choice includes a CD drive, you’re good to go. (DVD drives double as CD drives, of course.) Choo

10 Quick Ways to Speed Up a Slow Mac

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Macs can perform slowly, too. If your Mac seems to be running slower than it should, the variety of tips here should help you identify and fix the problem. As with a Windows PC, there are many reasons a Mac might be slow. Stay away from programs that promise to “optimize” your Mac and make it run faster. Some “cleaning” programs — like the Mac version of CCleaner — can remove temporary files and free up space, but they won’t make your Mac perform faster. Find Resource-Hungry Processes Click the “% CPU” heading to sort by CPU usage and see the running applications and processes using the most CPU. In some cases, there may be a single runaway application using 99% CPU that you’ll want to end. To   force-quit a process , select it by clicking it and click the X button on the toolbar. Be sure you aren’t quitting a process that’s doing something important. You can always try to close a resource-hungry app in the normal way first. Use the Activity Monitor — sort of like the Task Manager on W

How To Build A Phone Power Bank Yourself From Damaged Laptop Batteries

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Materials Needed/Requirements ==>1. Screw driver ==>2. Nose Pliers (optional for disassembling)  ==>3. Soldering Iron (optional for joining wires)  ==>4. DIY Power bank Case from Aliexpress. Get it  here  (optional too) ==>5. Spoilt/worn out laptop batteries ==>6. Your Techy brain Quick Note: The power bank case you buy, depends on the number and size of the damaged laptop batteries or any other batteries you intend using. The one given above is 18,650mAh lion power bank case. feel free to search and choose the perfect size. Also you can chose to construct one yourself if you'd rather prefer not to import. Though you might need some technical know how to do so. The above is recommended, since it already contains a circuit housing the resistor, transistors, capacitors, etc that is meant to handle the current input and output voltage. A USB port to plug your phones to. So building that yourself could also result to you  sacrificing portability .See photo of one a gu