Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Bonnie: Can I delete am unwanted conversation from Facebook Messenger without opening it first?
Rick’s answer: I love questions like this, Bonnie. Short, and directly to the point!
Luckily, it’s very easy to delete any Messenger conversation without having to open it first.
How you do that depends on how you’re accessing your Facebook messages. Just follow the steps below that match the device you’re using. [Read more…]
There are lots of ways to select text on a web page or most any other type of document.
For example, this post explains how to select both a single word and an entire paragraph.
There are times when you might need to select multiple paragraphs at once, and that can be a bit tricky, especially when you have to scroll the screen up or down to select parts of the desired text block.
Luckily, there is a very fast and easy way to select multiple paragraphs using just two mouse clicks, and it works even if some of the text you want to select can’t be seen without scrolling. Here’s all you need to do: [Read more…]
I receive hundreds of tech questions every week, and there are some questions that get asked on a regular basis.
One such recurring question is this:
“Is there any way to prevent people from stealing the photos I have posted on my Facebook account?“
Unfortunately, the answer to that question is an emphatic “NO”. [Read more…]
Have you ever found yourself calculating the current time in some far off locale, only to discover later that your calculation missed the mark by a mile?
I ran into this problem myself several times back in my Army days. But luckily, things have changed since then…
Thanks to our friends at Google we can instantly get the current time for virtually any city or town on the planet. Here’s how: [Read more…]
As you probably know, responding to a fraudulent phishing email is an easy way to fall victim to a hacker and have your important online account(s) compromised.
The latest recurring phishing scheme to start making the rounds again is targeting AT&T customers.
Although the wording of the fraudulent emails vary a bit, they all warn you that if you don’t click the link in the email and “update your mailbox” your AT&T email account will be closed.
Here’s an example of what you need to be on the lookout for: [Read more…]