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My “Pick” for today is this fantastic All-new Ring Battery Doorbell.
This little gem will allow you to answer your doorbell from anywhere via an app on your phone.
It’ll also show you who is at your door before you answer it and help prevent porch pirates from absconding with your delivered packages, all while recording every second of the action (both audio and video).
Click here to check out the All-new Ring Battery Doorbell at Amazon.
Today’s POTD features a colorful sunset over the water (and some huts) just off the shore of Tahiti. I hope you like it.
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March’s winner will receive this fantastic DJI Power 1000 Portable Power Station.
This is one of my favorite UPS systems. It provides a clean sinewave output and it’ll keep your computer gear up and running long enough for you to save all of your open files and perform a normal shutdown when your power goes out.
All subscribers to the Standard edition of my Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter have an equal chance to win.
Premium subscribers have two chances to win (their email addresses are added to the “pot” twice).
Not a subscriber? Just enter your email address in the form on this page. Once subscribed you’ll be eligible to win each month’s drawing – starting with this month. Better yet, opt for a Premium subscription for double the chance to win!
The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on March 31 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.
Good luck!
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Question from Anita: I have a very dear friend who recently put up a Facebook page for her business. She asked me to “Like” her page, and I did.
Now I receive at least a dozen posts from her page in my news feed every day, and to be honest I have no interest whatsoever in the things she is selling.
Is there any way to block the posts from her page without having to “Unlike” it? I care very much about this person and I really don’t want to hurt her feelings if I can help it.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
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A few days ago I started getting messages from folks asking why Firefox had suddenly started forcing them to sign in to their online accounts every time they open their browser.
I checked in to it and discovered that a Firefox software update had apparently enabled the setting that clears the browser history every time Firefox is closed, automatically signing users out of any accounts they were signed into when they closed the browser.
If this is happening to you there’s a very easy fix: [Read more…]
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Have you ever noticed that you tend to do many of the same things over and over when using your computer?
Many of those repetitive tasks have keyboard shortcuts that can save you a ton of time once you get used to using them.
I realize that it’s easy to take the keyboard for granted in our mouse-centric world, but it really does help to know a few keyboard shortcuts.
This is especially true if you do a lot of typing and your fingers are almost always on the keyboard anyway.
Here are just a few of the keyboard shortcuts that I use every day: [Read more…]