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  • How To Contact Amazon Support Customer Service Damaged Gift Card

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    My son had an Amazon gift card that was damaged and part of the claim code couldn’t be read. I wasn’t sure if anything could be done, but figured it was worth a shot to contact Amazon. Finding contact information for Amazon is not the easiest. To locate Amazon’s contact information, load the Amazon home…

  • How To Fix Windows 10 Wifi Card Not Working

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    My son’s computer suddenly had problems showing the available wifi networks. The computer is new and running Windows 10. Doing the following is what fixed the issue: Press the Windows key + X Select Device Manager Click Network Adapters and expand the list Find your wifi card in the list – it will probably contain…

  • How To Redirect HTTP to HTTPS With Hostgator

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    For security purposes, all websites should use https rather than http. Normally, this can be done by editing the .htaccess file, which is located in the root directory of your website. The following should be added to the .htaccess file to redirect to https: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L] Just replace…

  • How To Add the Google Play Store to Kindle Fire 7 5th generation

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    I just added the Google Play store to my old Kindle Fire 7 5th generation. It was super easy and it actually worked! Here’s how I did it: Make sure you have a Kindle Fire 7 5th generation by going to Settings, Device Options, Device Model If Device Model says Fire(5th Generation), then do the…

  • How to Fix Jar Not Recognized Error On Windows

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    The other day I was trying to view the contents of a jar file by entering this on the command line: jar tf jarfilename.jar I got the following error: ‘jar’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file To fix this error: Make sure a JAVA_HOME environment variable is…

  • How To Send a Fax for Free

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    Every once in a while I have to send a fax, so I’ve always bought printers with fax capability. The last printer I bought doesn’t have a fax capapbility, but it does scan. There are a bunch of websites out there that will fax a document for you. Most of them have a cost involved…

  • How to Fix Verizon Jetpack MiFi 8800L Dropping Connections

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    I recently upgraded my Verizon 7730L jetpack to the Verizon mifi 8800L jetpack. I’ve been a little reluctant to do so because it has such bad reviews on the Verizon website. A few months ago the reviews were great. Recent reviews are terrible though. They all talk about how the device randomly drops connections. Well,…

  • Python Tutorial Series – Set Up

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    I’m working on learning Python as part of learning about Data Science, so in the process of doing that, I thought I’d put together a series of Python tutorial blog posts. Python is supposed to be easy to learn, so we’ll see. In order to use Python on your local machine, it needs to be…

  • Columnar Database

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    I recently read about an interesting database concept that uses a columnar database, which is where data is stored in columns instead of rows. Apparently this approach has several advantages over a row based database. A columnar database has better performance when a large number of queries are run at the same time. Joins and…

  • How I Learned PHP

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    Learning PHP was on my list of things to learn for a while. Two years ago, I finally started. I learned PHP by taking two online courses at ed2go.com. They were called: Introduction to PHP and MySQL and Intermediate PHP and MySQL. They were fairly good at getting you started. The first course guides you…