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Question from Yvonne: I’ve started seeing those posts asking people to post their senior year photos again.
I know there’s a lot of scams and hoaxes on Facebook. Is this one of them?
I guess what I’m really asking is if it’s safe to participate in this? I really like the idea but only if it’s safe.
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Question from Carrie: I went to Costco this morning and when I got home my phone wasn’t in my purse.
I checked both my car and my apartment from one end to other and it just isn’t here.
Then I called Costco to see if anyone had found it and turned it in at the Service Desk, but they hadn’t.
I didn’t go anywhere else, just to Costco so that has to be where I lost it.
I’m not too concerned about the phone itself. It’s an older Straight Talk phone that I was planning to replace soon anyway.
The thing that worries me is my Gmail was open (I keep it that way, stupid me). I have a lot of sensitive info and photos in my emails that I really don’t want anyone else to see.
Is there a way to use my computer to remotely sign out of Gmail on the lost phone?
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Question from Jennie: I overheard a conversation the other day that really interested me, and I want to see what you think about it.
A young man told his friend that hiding the WiFi network name in his router would prevent his neighbors from finding and connecting to the Internet over his network.
I live in an apartment building and I’m pretty sure I have this same problem right now.
I’d like to follow that guy’s advice but I want to make sure I can connect new devices of my own (as well as those of friends) to my WiFi network with the network name hidden. Will I be able to?
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Question from Tammy: Every time I load a Windows app on my Windows 10 laptop the scroll bar over on the right remains hidden until I move my mouse over it.
This happens every time I use any app I have downloaded from the Microsoft Store.
I have a health issue that makes it hard for me to control the placement of the mouse so I have trouble activating the scroll bar.
Can you tell me how to keep Windows from hiding the scroll bars?
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Question from Ellen L.: I can block calls from certain phone numbers with my smart phone, but I also have a landline telephone that I’d like to be able to do that with as well.
I receive a lot of nuisance calls on that line, but the phone company wants to charge me a monthly fee that adds up to well over a hundred dollars a year to block them for me.
Do you know of a service or device that I can get that’ll let me block calls from the nuisance numbers that call me the most often without having to pay a big monthly fee?
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