What to Do When You Lose Your Tech Gear

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What to Do When You Lose Your Tech Gear When your cell phone, laptop, or other gear goes missing, these essential tips will improve your odds of recovering itï¾­--or ensure that the lost item wont come back to haunt you. - Robert Strohmeyer, PCWorld More Mobile Computing Tips Long Live Your Laptop Battery! Keep your laptop battery working for years (and for hours between charges). Save Email Efficiently in Outlook 2007 Celeste Sichenze wants to save an email as a single file, but Outlook 2007 wont let her How to Install an SSD in Your Laptop Laptops are ideal candidates for solid state drives: These drives are more rugged and shock resistant than standard hard drives, since they have no moving parts. 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