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ATTN Xfinity Mobile Customers: Your service is about to get a lot worse.

Posted on July 3, 2018

Have you seen the new ads from Comcast promoting their Xfinity Mobile service?

If you have, you probably think it sounds like a pretty good deal.

Well, that “deal” is about to get a lot worse. [Read more…]

Q&A: How do I redirect all 404 errors to the home page in WordPress?

Posted on June 13, 2018

Question from Seth P.: I have a WordPress blog that has several missing posts that I’ve deleted because they contained outdated information that was either incorrect or no longer relevant.

My blog now has lots of requests going to the 404 error page because those posts no longer exist.

I’d like to redirect all of those requests to my blog’s home page instead of displaying the 404 error page. How can I do that?

Ricks’s Answer: [Read more…]

Yahoo is pulling the plug on Yahoo Messenger

Posted on June 11, 2018

Back in the “Stone Age” of the Internet (i.e. before Facebook came along) Yahoo Messenger and AOL Messenger were used on a daily basis by millions of users to keep in touch with friends and family.

Well, times have changed…

AOL Messenger was shut down last year, leaving only Yahoo Messenger to compete with Facebook’s hugely popular Messenger app.

As of today that competition is officially over because Yahoo has just announced they’ll shutting down the entire Yahoo Messenger platform on July 17, 2018. [Read more…]

Warning: The popular DNA testing service ‘MyHeritage DNA’ has been hacked

Posted on June 6, 2018

The popular DNA testing service MyHeritage DNA has just reported that hackers have stolen the email addresses and hashed passwords of over 92 million users.

The company apparently didn’t know about the breach until they were alerted to it by a third-party security research firm. [Read more…]

Microsoft is killing off the ‘Groove Music’ app for Android and iOS devices

Posted on June 1, 2018

Do you use Microsoft’s “Groove Music” app to listen to music on your iOS or Android mobile device?

If so, you’ll need to switch to something different before December rolls around.

Microsoft has just announced that they’ll be “retiring” the Groove Music apps for both Android and iOS on December 1, 2018.

After that date you’ll still be able to access any music that you have stored on OneDrive, but you’ll have to listen to it using OneDrive or some other Microsoft-based player because the Groove Music app on your Android or iOS mobile device will no longer work. [Read more…]