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Question from Nina P.: Hi Rick. First, I want to thank you for sharing all the beautiful pictures with us every morning.
They really start my day off on a positive note!
Now, a question. When I go through your page and click on the older pictures it always shows the last one you posted.
Why is that? I love seeing the old photos too!
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Question from Beverly: My 7 year old laptop stopped working last year and I replaced it with a new one that has Windows 10 on it.
When I was setting up the new laptop it asked me to create a password for logging into Windows.
Then it also asked me to create a PIN.
I’ve been logging in with the PIN ever since but I recently read an article that said passwords are more secure than PINs.
I’ve been logging in with my password since then but the log-in screen still gives the option to use the PIN when I click the “Sign-in Options” link.
If I can choose to enter the PIN instead of the password a computer thief would be able to as well, right?
My questions is, how do I completely remove the PIN from my laptop?
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Question from Wilma A.: Great site you have there, Rick. I visit every day!
I have a question about Facebook and I know you’ll be able to answer it for me.
I have a lot of friends and a bunch of them poke me on a regular basis. I’m talking maybe 30-40 pokes a day.
I don’t have time to respond to all the pokes as they come in so I usually wait a few days and poke everyone back at once.
Where do I look for the list of people who have poked me?
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Did you know that Google keeps a record of everything you have ever searched for via their Google search engine?
Well, they do, and unless you have already deleted your Search history at some point in the past it dates all the way back to the very first search you made on Google!
Truth be told, Google has always provided a way to delete your Search history IF you knew where to look. The thing is, it was always very hard to find.
Luckily, Google has now made it a lot easier to delete your Search history.
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Well, the account cloning epidemic on Facebook is showing no signs of letting up.
In fact, it seems to be getting worse.
Every day I see frantic posts from several of my friends saying they’ve been hacked and not to accept a new friend request from them.
I know how alarming it can be when your friends start sending you messages saying they’ve received duplicate friend requests from you, but the situation really isn’t as dire as it seems. [Read more…]