Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Chanelle: I use Facebook a lot but I usually don’t pay much attention to the “Stories” they show at the top of the page.
But when I do see a Story that interests me it always seems to finish playing too quickly and move on to the next one before I’ve finished looking at the one I wanted to see.
Is there any way to pause a Story to give me more time to see it and read whatever writing might be on it? [Read more…]
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Question from Taylor: I recently bought a refurbished Dell OptiPlex 9020-SFF desktop computer and I really like it.
I know there are faster computers out there, but this is actually the fastest one I have ever owned.
My question is what’s the best way to add WiFi to this machine? [Read more…]
Question from KellyAnne: I just bought a new computer with Windows 11 on it.
One of the first things I did while setting it up was install FastStone Image Viewer on it because that’s what I used on my old Windows 10 computer, and I love it.
The problem I’m having is every time I try to view a photo it opens in the Photos app (which I hate) instead of FastStone.
How can I make my pictures open in FastStone Image Viewer? [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
A while back I wrote a post explaining how to delete your entire search history that Google has collected and stored since the moment you began using their service way back when.
Several of you have since written in and asked me if there’s a way to prevent Google from gathering and storing that information in the first place? Well, the answer to that question is yes.
Google has built tons of nifty features into their popular search engine that do a lot more than just help folks find things on the Internet.
A couple of great examples are their instant instant weather snapshot and their handy dictionary service (simply type define:word into the search box, where word is the term you want to have defined).
Another of my favorites is the Google Timer. Here’s how to use it: [Read more…]