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How to Put Free Ebooks on Your Amazon Kindle

10/11/2022 Leave a comment

How to Put Free Ebooks on Your Amazon Kindle Your Kindle isn’t just restricted to reading books from Amazon. Here’s how to convert various other ebooks formats for the Kindle, and where to get free ebooks.

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23 Tips Every Amazon Addict Should Know

07/16/2022 Leave a comment

23 Tips Every Amazon Addict Should Know Love it or hate it, the Seattle-based e-commerce giant is the web’s go-to shopping destination. Ahead of Prime Day, here’s how to take advantage of Amazon deals, shipping, and more.

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It’s Q&A Time: How to Create Custom Questions and Answers for Amazon Alexa

07/16/2022 Leave a comment

It’s Q&A Time: How to Create Custom Questions and Answers for Amazon Alexa Customize the Alexa experience by cooking up your own Q&As for Amazon’s digital assistant.

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Amazon Luna: Your Prime Membership Now Has Game Streaming

03/05/2022 Leave a comment

Amazon Luna: Your Prime Membership Now Has Game Streaming Amazon Luna, the cloud-based video game streaming service, has officially launched to everyone in the United States. Not only that, but Amazon is adding free games to the service for Prime members, which is yet another reason to sign up for Prime.

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What Are Alexa Hunches, and How Do You Use Them?

12/16/2021 Leave a comment

What Are Alexa Hunches, and How Do You Use Them? Alexa Hunches allow Alexa to perform tasks such as turning off your living room lights when you head to bed–with your permission. Alexa keeps track of your habits, routines, and requests to perform these actions on hunches.

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Amazon rolls out encryption for Ring doorbells – BBC News

07/16/2021 Leave a comment

Amazon rolls out encryption for Ring doorbells – BBC News Footage captured by the video doorbells will now be end-to-end encrypted, following a trial.

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How to Delete Books and Documents from Your Kindle Library

03/26/2021 Leave a comment

How to Delete Books and Documents from Your Kindle Library Your Kindle can hold thousands of books and documents, all of which can be synced across your devices. But if you want to keep your Kindle Library organized, you might want to delete some files from your Kindle. https://www.howtogeek.com/715730/how-to-delete-books-and-documents-from-your-kindle-library/  

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Military-Grade Encryption

Many companies tout “military-grade encryption” to protect your data. If it’s good enough for the military, it must be the best—right? Well, kind of. “Military-grade encryption” is more of a marketing term that doesn’t have a precise meaning.

Bandwidth/Broadband

Bandwidth is an indication of how quickly data travels along a connection. The greater the bandwidth, the faster data will be sent and received. Broadband is a rather vague term that refers to bandwidth somewhere above that of an old dial-up modem, although there is no precise definition of the term. Broadband connections are generally “always on”, unlike modem connections. There are various technologies which provide “broadband” speeds – such as ADSL, cable, satellite etc.

Memory, Disk Space

Another very common source of confusion. In computing, “memory” generally refers to the temporary storage used by a computer whilst it is switched on. A computer loads programs and data into its memory in order to carry out tasks. This is more accurately called RAM or “random-access memory”. Disk space (or “hard disk space”), on the other hand, is a more permanent store that holds files even when the computer is switched off. It’s from here that the computer loads things into its memory. Strictly speaking you don’t store things in the computer’s memory as that vanishes when you turn the machine off.

Bits / Bytes

At a basic level, all computer data is just a series of 0s and 1s. Each of these is referred to as a “binary digit”, for which “bit” is just an abbreviation. A byte is (generally) a collection of eight bits, so called because of the pun with bit and bite. Similarly a collection of four bits – half a byte – is sometimes called a “nybble”.

ADWARE

Any advertising software which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is being used.

Web Browser

A program you use to look at and navigate between, pages on the World Wide Web. Examples include Internet Explorer and Firefox although there are many others. Again, people sometimes refer to web browsers as “the Internet”, whereas they really only provide the means to view pages on the web.

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