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How to remove available job openings from your LinkedIn feed

Posted on July 19, 2022

If you use LinkedIn you’re probably used to seeing lots of available job notifications showing up in your feed.

While some folks are actively looking for a new job and others are always willing to consider job offers that might align with their career goals, plenty of other LinkedIn users have no interest in seeing job openings in their feed at all.

Personally, I fall into the “I’d rather not see the job openings in my feed” camp. If you feel that way too you can easily block those job opening notifications with a simple settings change. [Read more…]

Q&A: Why can’t my PC access the files on my Android phone?

Posted on July 11, 2022

Question from Alex: I used to be able to plug my Android phone into my Windows laptop and copy the photos from the phone to the computer.

However, I tried that this morning and when I opened the phone in File Explorer it said “This folder is empty.”

I haven’t changed any settings on either the laptop or the phone so I don’t know why File Explorer can’t see the photos that are on the phone (there are tons of them).

What am I missing here? [Read more…]

How to make your phone or tablet charge as quickly as possible

Posted on July 7, 2022

Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter

Do you often find that your phone’s battery is running low but you don’t have much time to charge it up?

If so, there’s an easy way to ensure that you’ll get as much charge in the short time available as possible. All you have to do is put your phone in airplane mode.

You probably know that putting any device into airplane prevents it from ringing or making other sounds, but this handy setting actually goes much further than that… [Read more…]

How to change the default search engine in Safari

Posted on July 1, 2022

Like other popular web browsers, Safari allows you to choose the default search engine you want to use when you search for something on the web with your Apple device.

Safari comes pre-configured with Google set as its default search engine, but you can easily change that to Bing, DuckDuckGo or one of several other popular search engines if you choose to do so. [Read more…]

Tuesday, May 24, 2022 – Q&A: What does it mean to ‘jailbreak’ an iPhone? – Create a Recovery Flash Drive for your Chromebook

Posted on May 24, 2022

Hello, and welcome…

Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Topics covered in this issue…

• Create a Recovery Flash Drive for your Chromebook

• Q&A: What does it mean to ‘jailbreak’ an iPhone?

• Q&A: How can I find out which processor my Mac has in it?

• The ten greatest inventions of Nikola Tesla

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