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Question from Greg: I have my Facebook privacy set to “Friends”, not “Public”.
If I post something on my Timeline, can my friends’ friends who are not on my own friends list see it?
Also, if I comment on a friend’s post, can their friends who are not my friends too see my comment? [Read more…]
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Even though solid state drives (SSDs) are beginning to replace spinning hard drives in the marketplace, the majority of computers in use today still use a hard drive for long-term data storage.
Unfortunately, most hard drives will eventually fail, and when they do their owners often lose any irreplaceable data that’s stored on them because they didn’t have a current backup on hand.
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Did you recently purchase a new computer because your old one had become sluggish and unstable?
If you plan to use your new computer primarily for offline tasks like editing photos or doing office-type tasks, there’s a simple way to keep it running like new for years…
Have you ever logged into your Facebook account at work and forgot to log back out before leaving for the day?
Or perhaps you borrowed a friend’s smartphone to post a quick status update and then handed the phone back to him/her without logging out?
Even worse, perhaps something happened that leads you to believe that someone else (a hacker perhaps?) was logged into your account on a remote device?
Situations like these can leave your Facebook account and all of the sensitive information stored therein wide open to people who might desire to use it for nefarious purposes. [Read more…]
If you’ve been using Microsoft Windows for a while you’ve probably noticed that many of the dialog boxes you encounter have both an “Apply” button and an “OK” button.
If these buttons aren’t coming to mind at the moment, take a quick glance at the images on this page for a visual reminder.
The purpose of the “Apply” button is to make a settings change that you just made take effect immediately without closing the dialog box.
The thing is, clicking the “OK” button without clicking “Apply” works too, which brings up a question that I receive fairly often: “Do I need to click the “Apply” button AND the “OK” button after making a change?” [Read more…]