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Question from Laurie: My son had been begging me for a new iPhone for a while so I finally gave in and got him one for his birthday.
My own phone was starting to have battery issues so I decided to take over my son’s old iPhone after he received the new one.
The problem my son’s name still shows up when I log into certain apps on his hand-me-down iPhone.
How do I change the name of this phone from my son’s name to mine? [Read more…]
Question from Tina: Our church hosted a gospel music festival this past weekend and I videoed the performances of eight groups, each of which sang several songs each.
There was a considerable gap between the performances so I stopped recording after each group had finished singing their last song.
That left me with eight relatively short videos instead of just long one.
How can I combine all of those short videos to make one long video? [Read more…]
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Question from Mickey: I have an older Acer desktop computer that’s running Windows 10.
I want to add a 2nd screen to that machine just to display my Gmail, but the problem is it has just one video output port.
Can I buy something like a splitter that’ll let me hook up two monitors to one video port? [Read more…]
Question from Rod: My friend and I were discussing the advancements that have been made in technology when an interesting question came to mind.
Are the fastest hard drives made today still slower than the slowest SSDs?
I say no, but my friend says yes.
Question from Helen: Several times a day my web browser will pop up a little box telling me the website I’m visiting wants to show notifications.
I always answer no because I don’t want to receive notifications from ANY website.
It makes no difference whether I’m using Chrome of Firefox. It happens with both of them.
Is there a way to prevent those browsers from asking me if I want to receive notifications from ANY site?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]