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Question from Kyle: The hard drive in my computer died and I replaced it with an SSD per your suggestion.
I’ve read that SSD’s are a lot more reliable than hard drives and that they rarely go bad.
My question is do I need to back up my SSD like I did my hard drive? [Read more…]
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Question from Doreen: Hi, Rick. I moonlight doing product research for a local company, and I often find myself having to scan looooong web pages for a certain word or phrase related to the task at hand.
Some of these pages are literally thousands of words in length, and the font size is often very small which makes it even harder to find what I’m looking for.
Is there any way that I can just search for the word or phrase and have Firefox take me right to it? [Read more…]
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Question from Sophia: I’ve been seeing ads for UV phone sanitizers that supposedly will kill any Covid-19 viruses that might be on a phone.
My question is do they really work?
I’ve checked around and these things are fairly expensive.
I’d hate to buy one if it won’t really protect me from the virus. Better safe than sorry, right? [Read more…]
Question from Dale: I’ve noticed that when I copy a URL from Edge’s address bar and then paste it into a document, it actually pastes the title of the page into the document and then links the title to the URL.
There are times when this is fine, but there are also times when I want to paste just the bare URL without the title.
How can I make Edge copy just the URL from the address bar without copying the title too? [Read more…]
Question from Sue: This morning someone told me about a website called Download MORE GHz that claims to speed up your computer by making the CPU run faster.
I Googled it and checked out the website, and they have a good sales pitch (even though the service is supposedly free).
The problem is I’ve learned to be skeptical about things like this on the Internet.
I was wondering if you recommend them or not. Any guidance would be much appreciated.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]