Tips to revive a dead TouchPad

Gemboel Technology - You grab your TouchPad, press the power button, and nothing happens. It appears to be completely dead. You assume that maybe it's just a dead battery and place it on a Touchstone or plug it in, but you don't even get the "dead battery" picture that typically appears. Before you throw the TouchPad across the room in anger, here are a few tips that you can try to revive a dead TouchPad first. Of course, none of these are guaranteed to work, but give them a shot. Charge the device for a few hours. We have seen completely drained TouchPads that were unresponsive...

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Microsoft Surface Tip: Internet Explorer Favorites

Gemboel Technology - The Microsoft Surface comes pre-loaded with Internet Explorer 10 and the one thing that was odd (or at least for me) was the lack of an obvious way to save a website as a favorite.  I kept looking for a 'star" button to add sites to my favorites list. The process of adding a website as a favorite ended up being rather simple. Just tap on the "pin" button and you'll find two options. First to pin the site to your Start Screen for easy access and second, to add the site as a favorite. To access your favorites, just tap on the URL field to pull up a tile list listing...

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How To Install .deb Files On Your iPhone or iPod Touch

Gemboel Technology - One of the most convenient aspects of using a jailbroken iPhone or other iOS device is that you can try several different tools and applications that you simply would not be able to on a “normal” device. Usually, most of these apps and tools are installed via Cydia, the hub that serves as package installer for jailbroken iOS devices. However, sometimes using Cydia can be extremely slow and cumbersome. What not many users know though is that you can install jailbreak apps and tools manually right from your iPhone using .deb files without ever opening Cydia. To do it, you...

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How To Defragment Kaspersky Security Files

Gemboel Technology - Users of Kaspersky security products are unable to defragment Kaspersky files using a utility like Defraggler. Kaspersky consists of dozens of files (including large ones of 150MB+) which can become highly fragmented over time as the product is updated daily. Defraggler is our ‘go to’ defragmenter tool (the integrated Windows defragmenter tool is very basic and doesn’t do as good a job). However, it is unable to defragment the files of our preferred security solution, Kaspersky Internet Security – and we expect this issue applies equally to other Kaspersky products such...

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How do you play Blu-rays on an older model HDTV?

Gemboel Technology - You need is an old Blu-ray player to work with an old HDTV. But don't worry; it doesn't have to be that old. It just has to be old enough to have component video outputs. As recently as two years ago, that was pretty much all Blu-ray players. Component video is an analog, high-definition video connection that pre-dates HDMI. It uses three old-fashioned RCA connectors--one for each primary color (red, green, and blue). It's theoretically capable of carrying a 1080p video, but can only do 1080i with Blu-rays, because the Blu-ray standard's copy protection doesn't...

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