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How to Hide Your Windows Mouse from the Desktop
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We Won the Angie’s List 2018 Super Service Award!
Press Release Green Dragon Technology Earns Esteemed 2018 Angie’s List Super Service Award Award reflects company’s consistently high level of customer service Green Dragon Technology has earned the home service industry’s coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award,...
Back Up Android Phone Data To The Cloud
Here’s how to make sure your Android smartphone information is backed up to Google Drive and can be restored if needed. Go to Settings. Scroll down to Backup and Restore. Turn Backup my data on. I’d also suggest turning on Automatic restore. That way if an app...
Recent Tech News 06/30/2017
Huge Ransomware Attack Hits US and Europe In what's being known as a worldwide ransomware occurrence, service organizations, stores, banks, and government offices in Europe, the UK, Australia, and the US have been hit by one of the biggest digital assaults ever. Among...
Ways To Get Internet On A Limited Budget
It's a fact–internet in the United States is costly. The Center for Public Integrity contrasted five French urban communities with five similar US urban areas and found that web costs in the US were up to 3.5 times higher than tantamount administrations in France....
Cool Chrome Trick – Windowed Chrome Mode
Use this cool trick to run Chrome in a windowed mode without the tabs. Handy for email, shopping, weather, news, whatever! Save space on your desktop. Watch this short video to learn more!
Recent Tech News 06/16/2017
Fall Windows 10 Update Lets Edge Pin Websites The coming Creators Update To Windows 10 highlights a fresh new search for the Action Center and also the capacity to pin most loved sites to the taskbar in Microsoft Edge. The pinning element was one that a great deal of...
Introducing the Family Plan
Introducing the Family Plan Save up to $180/yr* Overview We’re here to support you with all of your PCs, tablets. Green Dragon Tech Support is the knowledgeable resource that will support your computer, laptop, or tablet software issues for the length of your...
We Won the Angie’s List 2016 Super Service Award!
Press Release Green Dragon Technology Earns Esteemed 2016 Angie’s List Super Service Award Award reflects company’s consistently high level of customer service Green Dragon Technology has earned the home service industry’s coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award,...
Bluetooth 5, CCleaner, & Viking I
Bluetooth 5 Spec to Be Announced In an email sent by the Bluetooth SIG Executive Director, the Bluetooth 5 spec has been planned to be announced on June 16, and promises to improve in many aspects over existing Bluetooth technologies. Not much is known about what will...
Twitter Passwords, Browser Bookmarks, & Microsoft
Possible 32 Million Twitter Accounts Now Vulnerable Before we go into any detail, we would just like you to know that now would be a good time to change your twitter password, if you have one. News of this “hack” seems to have come from a strange website called...
Machine Learning Chips, SSDs, & the TI Speak & Spell
Google Reveals Their Secret To High-Performance Machine Learning Google has made quite a few advancements in the field of machine learning, with one of it’s more recent endeavors being capable of beating a professional human player at Go, a game notorious for being...
Locked Down Routers, Doom Reboot, & the Video Phone Call System
New FCC Rules Inadvertently Cause Router Firmware Lock Down, Except for Linksys WRTsMany modern wireless routers can operate at 5GHz frequency, thesame frequency as some weather radar systems. This can causeinterference for those systems, meaning that...
Driverless Cars, Battleborn, & Ethernet
Driverless Cars It seems that more companies are beginning to take cues from Google and their “driverless cars.” Baidu (a.k.a. “the Google of China”), for example, has announced that they want to deploy autonomous vehicles by around the year 2020 (roughly the same...
Nest’s Revolv Hub Shuts Down, Wireless Remote Outlet Switch, & the First 2-Button Mouse
Nest Discontinues Revolv Hubs: a Sign of What the IoT Really Means for Consumers The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is one of the latest buzzwords being pushed by companies like Nest. To be fair, on the surface it seems like it could have interesting potential. The idea...
The TPP, Enter the Gungeon, & the First West Coast Computer Faire
Dozens of Internet Companies Come out in Support of the Terrifying TPP Agreement as it Nears Ratification The Internet Association is an organization that “represents America’s leading Internet companies and their global community of users,” and is...
Revo Uninstaller, Hitman, & Pixar’s Tin Toy
Broadband Competition Worse than Ever Efforts such as Google Fiber have given people hope that the monopolies of US Broadband might have finally been coming to an end. Unfortunately, however, it seems that things have only continued to get worse. Fixed-line broadband...
Apple vs. the FBI, Far Cry Primal, & The First Tweet
Apple Refusing to Compromise iPhone’s Security, Even for the FBI Apple has now been in a month-long battle with the FBI over refusing to build a backdoor into the iPhone, and things are only getting more heated. The conflict actually originated back in December of...
External GPUs, The Division, & the Invention of the Computer
Standardized, External GPUs for Laptops May Be Coming AMD's Robert Hallock recently made a statement about a possible market for thin laptops that, when hooked up to an external GPU, would still manage to perform reasonably well for gaming. Of course, a proper,...
Netscape, Factorio, and the Browser War
Variable Stiffness Metal Could Lead to More Human-like Robots HRL Laboratories has come up with and demonstrated a certain way to arrange strips of metal in a such a way that adjusting the amount of pressure put on the strips will directly adjust the stiffness of the...
Bioprinting, Internet Speed Test, and the Michaelangelo Virus
3D Printed Human Organs 3D printing has already been predicted to have huge potential, with new uses for it being discovered seemingly every day. Singapore just recently said that they were planning to print public housing, and now it seems that 3D printing organs (or...
Fake Download Buttons, XCOM 2, and Chess AI
Fake Downloads If you've ever seen a fake download button on a website, you probably understand how frustrating they can become. If you're unfamiliar, these are advertisements put out onto sites like CNET or Sourceforge that purposefully mimic actual download...
Brave, Release Calendar, and the Modern Calculator
Brave You may have heard a while ago that Brendan Eich, a co-founder of Mozilla (a company best known for its web browser, Firefox), had stepped down as the company's CEO. Funnily enough, it turns out that he later began working on a browser of his own,...