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A Chatbot With A Difference

You've probably heard about ChatGPT by now. It is all over the interweb and social media. I am bombarded with YouTube videos showing me how much money I can make using ChatGPT to start a variety of businesses. Beware! At least two such videos appeared to have the same...

Budget Video Editing and Gaming Laptop

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45-R92M Gaming Laptop, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (8-Core) | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU |15.6" FHD 144Hz IPS Display | 16GB DDR4 | 512GB NVMe SSD | WiFi 6 | RGB Backlit Keyboard The Nitro 5 is a great budget gaming laptop which would also be great...

Center Cam A Mid-Screen Webcam

The normal eye line of subjects in web conferences and Zoom meetings is above the screen because the web cam is at the top of the screen. So the subject must look up at the web cam rather than directly at the audience at the center of the screen which is the ideal eye...

Computer Reset Brings Peace and Happiness

Computer Reset Brings Peace and Happiness

Video producers make heavy use of computers. More than most, you probably install and uninstall all kinds of helper programs. You may also fill hard drives, then after a time erase them and fill them again. This is all true in my business. It doesn't take long for the...

Flight Simulators

Flight Simulators

It's winter and Covid is keeping us inside and away from people. I briefly owned the great Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 Laptop. It was intended for use in my transfer business. After I was convinced it would handle the video editing and other transfer software, I thought I...

Connect Laptop To TV

Connect Laptop To TV

There are a lot of times you might want to see your laptop on your living room TV, a Vimeo video, a Zoom meeting, a game, an unusual video file or website. You may have everything you need to connect laptop to TV. Wireless Options A Chromecast device (Mac and PC about...

Buy A Used Computer Safely

You can find some great deals in used computers on eBay and Craigslist. For any used computer, the first priority should be safety. The vast majority of used computers are safe, but you don't know how careful the previous owner was. Are there risky files or software...

How To Check the Health of Hard Drives

My video editing computer has 4 internal drives. Two of them were for backup, but I stored some other large video projects on those two. The transfer business was requiring more space. I keep customer jobs for 30 days, but delete them after that. So I needed a new...