A dying or cracked display doesn’t mean your laptop is a paperweight. For most laptops, a screen replacement takes $80 and an hour of your time at most. If you’re a DIYer, replacing a broken laptop ...

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Your laptop screen is made up of thousands of tiny dots of color, called pixels. Each pixel is comprised of three subpixels to create the image on your screen. These subpixels -- red, blue and green - ...

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Getting the dreaded Windows black screen, with or without a cursor? Here are some simple (and not so simple) ways to banish it and get your desktop back. The “black screen” phenomenon in Windows 10 ...

Smashing the screen on your iPhone (or iPad or iPod, for that matter) is sadly a common issue. We’ve all been there: you drop your beloved device, reach down and pick it up – of course it landed ...

I have a bit of reputation with my family and friends for knowing how to fix people’s computer problems. When that person is in front of me, then explaining how to do that thing on Facebook or change ...

Recently, I was jogging from my car to a pizza shop to pick up dinner for the family, carrying my keys and iPhone in one hand, while digging through my wallet for cash with the other, not being ...