Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Adelle: I use an online photo editor called Pixlr and I really like it a lot. It’s hard to beat for the price in my opinion (it’s free lol).
Pixlr does most everything I need a photo editor to do, but I need to convert a certain photo to Black and White and I can’t find that option on the menu anywhere.
Surely it must have one. Can you tell me how to find it? [Read more…]
Question from Kalin: I really love your blog Rick, especially how you answer people’s tech questions.
I know that most of the questions you answer are practical in nature but mine is somewhat theoretical so I hope you won’t mind answering it for me.
The question is this: If you have a choice, do you prefer using a wired Ethernet connection or Wi-FI to connect to the Internet? [Read more…]
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Question from Craig: My friend and I got into a minor argument about the way you’re supposed to refer to a USB flash drive.
I call it a “thumb drive” and he says that’s incorrect.
I told him “thumb drive” is what lots of people call them and he told me they are wrong to call them that.
So in your opinion, which one of us it right? [Read more…]
Question from Nancy: How can I look at my Facebook profile the way strangers see it?
(By strangers I mean people who aren’t on my friends list.)
That way I’ll know what I need to change to prevent strangers from seeing things on my account that I don’t want them to see.
There are so many settings and it’s all so confusing! [Read more…]
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Question from Shane: I recently found your blog, and I love it. Great job!
I took your advice and replaced the hard drive in my laptop with an SSD to make it run faster.
Everything seems to be working ok and the speed increase is incredible, but I’m worried that I might have possibly damaged something while I was swapping out the drives. [Read more…]