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Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
There comes a time when every computer owner realizes that their current computer just isn’t up to the task of working with the latest hardware and software.
When we reach that conclusion we must inevitably make a choice between upgrading and buying a new computer.
In my opinion there are only five possible upgrades that really make sense given the historically low prices of new computers these days: [Read more…]
Are you a long-time Windows user who is now using Windows 11?
If so, you might have noticed how Microsoft has hidden some of the most useful options from the right-click menu in Windows 11, forcing you to click Show more options in order to access them.
This is one of those changes that makes me wonder just what they were thinking when they decided to make them. [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
The amount of information available on the Internet with just a few clicks of the mouse boggles the mind.
If all that info was published in a single book it would probably be thick enough to reach all the way to the moon.
That’s why Google and other Internet search engines are so important for helping us find the info we need in a timely manner.
But a single web page can hold a lot of information as well, and if you need to find something on a large, congested page it can be like finding a needle in a haystack. [Read more…]
Substack…
By now you probably know that Facebook accounts are getting cloned by scammers right and left these days.
Luckily, having a scammer clone your account isn’t as bad as having someone hack into it, but it’s still bad – especially for the people on your friends list.
In case you’re unfamiliar with account cloning, it’s where a scammer creates a completely new Facebook account in your name and populates it with photos and personal information they’ve copied from your real account.
They then use the new fake account to send friend requests to all the people on your real account’s friends list. [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
A while back I wrote a post explaining how to delete your entire search history that Google has collected and stored since the moment you began using their service way back when.
Several of you have since written in and asked me if there’s a way to prevent Google from gathering and storing that information in the first place? Well, the answer to that question is yes.