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The IPhone Generation Perhaps you have a son or daughter or know someone who is never seen without a smart phone in their hand. My thoughts on this is, that through evolution, this generation will develop a third arm just to hold onto a phone. I'm experiencing this first hand, as I have a thirteen year old daughter that is on her phone nearly every waking moment. It has disrupted her social life, her private life, her sleep and just about anything else. She does have a social life but it involves the phone. I picked her and one of her friends up from skating, as soon as they sat down in the car they were both instantly on their phones and neither said a word to each other. I suppose I am partly, perhaps totally to blame. At the age of six I gave her a laptop. Then shortly after that her Mother gave her a phone and so it began. My thoughts with the laptop was to get her accustom to it and maybe she would pursue some sort of interest in online business or some sort of web...

Windows 10 Update on Compaq Presario Recently I installed the Windows 10 update on a Wal-Mart version of a Compaq Presario laptop. The computer has a 1GHZ AMD processor with 2GB RAM. Before the upgrade the computer was a little slow but still usable. After the upgrade, the computer is now useless. It is so slow I had to time certain events just to see how painstakingly slow it really was. I was trying to open an image from a picture file within the computer itself. I started the experiment with the computer off. From the time I pushed the start button to the time the image opened was an incredible 17 minutes. This same task before the upgrade was no where close to this time. Although I never timed the event before, there really wasn't a need to because an image would open in a reasonable amount of time. Why the big slowdown? I'm not really sure and I'm by no means an expert but I know that Windows 10 uses a lot more system resources and I'm guessing the che...