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Question from Claude: I was looking at the various options for buying Microsoft Office on Amazon the other day and I saw they’re selling Microsoft Office that runs on Macs.
That really surprised me since Microsoft and Apple are direct competitors of each other.
Why do they make a Mac version of Office when that obviously encourages people who would buy a Windows computer to run MS Office on to buy a Mac instead? [Read more…]
A while back I wrote a post discussing several things you can do to protect your Facebook account from hackers.
That post explains how hackers will try to use phishing attempts and various social engineering techniques to trick you into handing over your Facebook password or the personal info they can use to guess it. [Read more…]
If you use LinkedIn you’re probably used to seeing lots of available job notifications showing up in your feed.
While some folks are actively looking for a new job and others are always willing to consider job offers that might align with their career goals, plenty of other LinkedIn users have no interest in seeing job openings in their feed at all.
Personally, I fall into the “I’d rather not see the job openings in my feed” camp. If you feel that way too you can easily block those job opening notifications with a simple settings change. [Read more…]
Question from Eileen: I took some pictures with my new phone and downloaded them to my computer (HP desktop with Windows 11).
All the photos look fine when I view them on the phone, but on the computer several of my favorites are crooked.
Is there a way to straighten them without installing an extra program? [Read more…]
Question from Carol: Rick, I’m really in a bind and I’m hoping you can help me.
My son was messing around in the settings in Firefox and he deleted my browser history, including the cookies that kept me logged into my most important accounts.
As you can probably guess, now I can’t log in to my bank account or pretty much anything else because I’ve forgotten the passwords.
Do you know if there’s a way to “unclear” the browser history in Firefox?