Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Do you frequently find yourself using Google Maps to navigate to the same destinations?
If so, you probably go through the normal routine of entering the destination and then telling the Maps app to use the same route you always use.
Well, I’m going to tell you about a little shortcut that will let you open the Maps app with the route to any frequently visited destination already displayed on the screen, ready for you to start driving. [Read more…]
Question from Laura: I know we can hide posts that we don’t like on Facebook, but I heard that hidden posts aren’t actually hidden from everyone.
If that’s true, what’s the point in hiding them? And who are they NOT hidden from?
Rick’s answer: That’s a great question, Laura. And what you heard is correct – hidden posts aren’t hidden from everyone. In fact, the odds are great that the number of people who can see a hidden post will far exceed the number of people who can’t. [Read more…]
Question from Brandie: I recently started embedding YouTube videos in some of my blog posts and I have a question about it.
Sometimes I want a video to start playing at a specific place instead of at the beginning. I know you can do this because I’ve seen it.
How do I choose where the video starts playing? [Read more…]
Question from Carmen: I just got a new Android phone and I hate how it vibrates every time someone calls or when I get a notification of some kind.
I don’t want my phone vibrating, ever.
I looked for a way to turn the vibrating off but I couldn’t find it. Surely there’s a way to do it.
Can you tell me what I need to do? [Read more…]
Question from Charlie: I read an article that said using two hard drives or SSDs in a RAID 0 configuration would speed up disk access speeds on my PC.
In a nutshell, it said RAID 0 can speed up disk read and write speeds by as much as 50% but that it’s risky to use it.
The article didn’t explain why RAID 0 is risky. Can you tell me why that is? [Read more…]