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Sharon Allred

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Updated on Phones

How to Choose a Smartphone

Smartphones, just like most technological gadgets, have come to make our lives simpler. When you select an ideal smartphone, you can manage appointments, emails, track your workouts, get directions, shop, listen to music, share information with friends, watch movies, pay bills, and about all stay connected. Since a smartphone can handle so many tasks, it’s essential to choose the right device that will serve your needs. Therefore what should you consider when selecting an excellent smartphone?

The Display

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Most of us use smartphones for a considerable number of hours each day. In this regard, it’s essential to choose a phone that is bright and sharp enough to offer an excellent display. If you select a smartphone with a large screen, the resolution should not be lower than 1920 x 1080p. If you want a sharper display, consider 2560 x 1440 Quad HD resolutions. The size of the screen will depend on how you’d like to use the smartphone. For example, if you’ll be watching movies on your phone, a large screen will be ideal.

Memory Storage Size

Although most modern smartphones come with inbuilt microSD card slots, a majority of them are not expandable. This is to say your storage space will be limited. It’s thus essential to choose a smartphone that will offer adequate storage space for your photos, music, files, document, and videos. Alternatively, you can choose a device that allows you to store this data in cloud-based apps like dropbox. You can Alsop opt to purchase a smartphone with the largest storage space possible.

Camera

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Most smartphone producing companies are trying to outdo each other by offering smartphones with more megapixels. You should not be trapped in this trick since more megapixels do not translate to better quality images. Apart from looking at the megapixels, you should also consider other relevant features such as aperture, ISO levels, and even the speed of the autofocus. For example, a phone with an 8-16 MP and an aperture of f/2.0-f/ 2.2 will produce excellent images. A mix of the critical factors that result in superior quality images is what you should aim at.

The Battery

It’s also essential to choose a phone with an excellent battery. You can determine the performance of the battery by checking online reviews by users of the specific smartphone. Besides, the phone battery should also be able to charge faster, besides keeping the charge for long; most android smartphones have this feature.…

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Updated on Malware $ Viruses

3 Things You Can Do To Deal with a Computer Virus

At some point in time, you will have your own experience with a computer virus. Since computer programs are inherently susceptible to certain malicious activities, you may open up an application that can infect all or most of the files that you store on your computer’s hard drive. Fortunately, there are many different types of malware and computer virus programs that can protect your computer from predators. However, new computer viruses are being designed all of the time.

Having said this, if you begin to see signs of a computer virus on your computer, it is important that you know how to address it quickly in order to minimize the damage.

Learn the Signs

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You Need to know when you are dealing with a computer virus. If you want to be prepared to act as quickly as possible, you need to be proactive about finding out what you can expect to see. Here is a brief listing of what types of problems that you may experience when a virus is on your hard drive.

  1. Unexpected pop-up windows that are difficult or impossible to take down.
  2. Your computer’s performance begin to get slower and slower. In fact, you can tell this quite quickly if your start-up begins to take several minutes and more.
  3. In some cases, you may begin to notice that hard drive is doing weird things, it is noisy and loud, looks like it is working overtime, even when you do not have a lot of windows up.
  4. Your storage space is extremely low.
  5. Files are missing
  6. Whatever you do, your computer starts to crash and you are receiving error messages that you cannot easily correct.
  7. Your email has been hijacked.

Now that you know what to look for before your computer is infected, you can respond immediately to a computer virus on your computer.

Call In a Professional

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When you run a computer scan and the virus is too bad for you to remove it all, you should contact a professional to take care of the problem. These are the experts that know how to clean your computer of these infections and how to save your files in the process of getting your laptop or desktop ready for you to use again.

Scan Your computer

Once you are familiar with how to deal with computer virus and how it reacts to a virus infection, you may need to check it out to see what is going on. So, if you want to know how bad it is or how much damage is actually being done, you can run a scan of your computer. The steps to scanning your computer viruses can be found on many different types of computer technology sites.

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