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A while back I wrote a post about how Amazon customers can save 3% on every purchase simply by using their free Amazon Rewards Visa Signature Card. (#ad)
That’s a great way to save some serious cash if you prefer buying with a credit card. One of life’s true no-brainers!
But that being said, not everyone wants to use a credit card for one reason or another.
Luckily, there’s another simple way to give yourself an automatic discount when you’re shopping at Amazon… [Read more…]
Question from Leslie: It seems like Microsoft is really pushing customers to sign up for a subscription to Office 365 instead of buying a copy of Office 2019.
Do you think they’re planning to stop selling desktop versions of MS Office and force everyone to start using Office 365 instead?
The reason I’m asking is I just bought a new PC and I’m trying to decide whether to buy Office 2019 or sign up for Office 365.
I don’t want to buy Office 2019 if they’re just going to abandon it like they do older versions of Windows.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
There are times when it would be nice to have the ability to schedule a post to go live on your Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn timeline at a later date and time.
Facebook already allows users to schedule posts for future publication on “business pages”, but they don’t allow you to do it with your personal account. And neither do Twitter and LinkedIn.
However, a fantastic service called TwitTimer allows you to schedule your posts for later publication on all three of those social media platforms. [Read more…]
Question from Melanie W.: I have a question about Twitter that I hope you can answer for me.
I’m following a woman who’s a news anchor on my local TV station.
I really love her tweets because they’re always interesting and informative, but she retweets like crazy and most of the things she retweets don’t interest me at all.
I know I could unfollow her but then I wouldn’t be able to see the tweets she posts.
Is there a way to keep following this person and see the tweets she posts herself but not see any of her retweets?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Cal: I’ve had the same Internet service through Charter for 4 years with no problems whatsoever.
But a few days ago the strangest thing started happening.
I’ll start playing a game and after exactly 3 minutes (I timed it) the Internet will disconnect and it’ll say “Attempting to reconnect”.
Every time this happens I always have to restart my computer in order to re-establish the connection.
It only does this when I’m playing a game, but it does it with every game I play. It doesn’t disconnect at all when I’m using the Internet for other things or watching Hulu.
Any idea what could be causing this?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]