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Question from Thalia: Hi, Rick. I hope you can help me with something.
I have a Yahoo email account that I don’t use anymore because I recently switched to Gmail.
I want to delete the Yahoo email account but I have thousands of important emails in there that I really need to keep.
Can you tell me how to move all of those emails from Yahoo into my Gmail account so I can delete Yahoo without losing anything?
Question from Louis: I’d been having trouble with Windows on my Acer computer so I went online looking for a solution.
I wasn’t having much luck with my search but then I happened to stumble across your post about replacing Windows with Linux.
Well, it intrigued me, and after thinking about it for a while I held my breath and installed Linux Mint. I chose Mint over the others because you said it works a lot like Windows. [Read more…]
I’m sure you’ve heard about all the hacks that are taking place these days.
It seems like every time we turn around there’s another company reporting a major hack that potentially compromised the personal and financial information of their customers.
Some of the most recent hacks resulted in some of the largest security breaches in history, and unfortunately scammers who weren’t even in on those attacks soon began taking advantage of the fear and confusion they created.
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Question from Brandon: A while back I bought this Canon EOS Rebel T7 camera that came with a standard 18-55mm zoom lens.
I’m happy with that lens, but I think I’ll need a different one before long.
I want to take up portrait photography and I’ve read that prime lenses are better than zoom lenses for that.
I was hoping you could recommend a really good portrait lens that’ll work with my camera. [Read more…]
Have you ever signed up for a service online only to discover later that you had to call them up on the phone to cancel?
I recently had that happen to me, and I found it annoying to say the least.