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Even premium smartphones have their limitations. As soon as the memory and space on the smartphone runs out, it will begin appear unstable, start to lag, or even freeze up or turn off.
The problem isn’t necessarily the smartphone memory, but you can easily check to see if RAM and/or storage space usage on your smartphone could be causing the issues. [Read more…]
If you use an iPhone you probably know there are two ways to access the Internet with your phone: Cellular Data and Wi-Fi.
If you’re signed up for an unlimited data plan with your cellular carrier it makes little difference whether you’re connected to the web via cellular or Wi-Fi in regards to monthly data usage.
However, if your plan only allows for a limited amount of included cellular data each month you could potentially find yourself either having your Internet access shut off or incurring some pretty hefty overage charges if you happen to exceed your data limit. [Read more…]
As you probably know, YouTube hosts billions of videos on pretty much every topic under the sun, and the vast majority of them can be viewed at any time for free.
This is why I wrote a post a while back explaining why YouTube is one of the best sites on the Internet for helping you quickly learn how to do something you’ve never done before.
As you also probably know, many of the videos on YouTube contain some type of “adult” subject matter that you might not want to see – or allow your kids to see.
(Yes, as a Google property YouTube has a minimum age requirement but we all know how well those work in practice.)
Luckily, YouTube has a “Restricted Mode” setting that will block the vast majority of videos containing adult subject matter to prevent them from being viewed on any device that you have it enabled on. [Read more…]
I recently wrote this post explaining how to disable cellular data on your iPhone in order to avoid going over your monthly data limit.
In a nutshell, turning off cellular data prevents your phone from sending Internet data to and receiving Internet data from a cell tower when there’s no Wi-Fi signal available or if the available Wi-Fi network is weak.
Several folks wrote in to ask me if Android users can disable cellular data on their phones as well. [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
Have you ever noticed that some Facebook users have multiple accounts?
While some of these duplicate accounts are due to the rampant epidemic of account cloning fraud, many duplicate accounts were actually created by the legitimate account holder because they think they need to open a new account every time they get a new computer, phone or tablet.
But truth be told, getting a new device doesn’t mean you’ll need a new Facebook account because your account isn’t tied to any specific device. [Read more…]