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Question from Lorna: Hi, Rick. I’m hoping you can help me solve a really odd mystery.
When I search for something on Bing and click on one of the search results, Bing always opens that link in a new tab.
That always leaves me with an extra tab to close when I’m done.
I’ve looked through the browser settings a dozen times but I can’t find a setting that would cause this.
Can you help me find whatever it is I need to change to make search results open in the same tab? [Read more…]
Question from Melanie: Hi, Rick. I’m hoping you can answer a question I have about my WordPress blog.
Is there any way to hide a category from the home page?
In other words I want to keep the posts in this one specific category from showing up on the main page of my blog.
I’ve searched the settings pages from top to bottom and I can’t find a setting to hide a category from the home page. If there is one can you tell me how to find it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
If you have small children you’re likely familiar with YouTube Kids.
If not, it’s simply a special “kids only” version of the ultra-popular YouTube video streaming service.
Overall, Google (the owner of YouTube) does a good job at making sure the videos available on YouTube Kids are truly kid-friendly, but occasionally a not-so-kid-friendly video will slip through the cracks. [Read more…]
Question from Karlie: I use my laptop late at night while hubby is trying to sleep, but sometimes the light from the screen keeps him awake.
A friend at work told me I could enable ‘Dark Mode’ on the laptop and it wouldn’t put out near as much light.
I’d love to give that a try. Can you tell me how to turn on Dark Mode on a laptop with Windows 10?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Mitchell: Love your site, Rick. I have a question for you if you don’t mind.
I recently retired from a job that required me to travel frequently to multiple states.
As you can imagine, I stayed in a lot of different hotels and now my Chromebook has a long list of WiFi networks that pop up when I go to connect to a network.
Since I’m not traveling anymore I’ll never need to connect to most of those networks again. How can I remove them? [Read more…]