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Outsourcing writing work is very common among entrepreneurs and people who make money on content creation.
High-quality articles (blog posts, social media posts, and so on) translate into engaged audiences and, therefore, revenues. So if you’ve decided to hire a professional writer, good for you! This post explains where you can get one. [Read more…]
Google Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser, and it isn’t even close.
There are several very good reasons why Chrome is used by so many people, one of which is the strong security that Google has built into it by default.
But did you know there’s a setting you can change in Chrome that will make your Internet activities even more secure? [Read more…]
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Saturday, August 26, 2023
• How to search Google for a person’s social media accounts
• Q&A: Why is Facebook so easy to hack?
• Q&A: Can I convert an older hard drive into a USB drive?
• Change two lives by adopting a shelter pet
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Question from Bruce: Rick, I have an old Windows XP computer and there’s data on its hard drive that I need to keep.
Can I turn that old drive into an external hard drive to retrieve the data, or is it more complicated than that?
Question from Gwendolyn: I write a WordPress blog where I talk about women’s issues and I always update LinkedIn with the URL to every post I write.
I’ve been doing this for over two years and LinkedIn has always displayed a photo from the post along with the title and text snippet, but lately it’s been omitting the photo about half the time.
Is there a setting that I might have inadvertently changed to cause the photo not to be displayed on some updates? Am I doing something wrong? [Read more…]