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As you probably know by now, ransomware is an insidious form of malware that will encrypt the contents of your hard drive and then demand that you pay a ransom to a scammer in exchange for the encryption key.
Unfortunately, it’s easy to fall victim to ransomware, and there’s no guarantee that you’ll be able to recover your files even if you pay the ransom as instructed.
Now, the scammers are planning to take this insidious threat to an even more sinister level! [Read more…]
If you own a blog or other type of website, you probably know how important it is to rank well in the Google search results.
Like it or not, the majority of a typical site’s visitors usually come from Google. That means anything that causes your site’s pages to tank in the Google search results is a bad thing indeed!
Last month Google announced that they’ll soon start ranking web pages based upon the content found on the mobile versions of the websites “crawled” by their bots. Well, now they’re taking their emphasis on mobile friendliness to an entirely new level.
Here is a direct quote from a recent Google blog post: [Read more…]
Hello again. I hope you had a great week and that you’re enjoying the holiday season thus far!
Believe it or not, some folks have already wrapped up their Christmas shopping for the year. If you happen to be one of them, congrats on a job well done!
But if you’re like the rest of us, you’re probably still struggling to find that perfect gift for a special friend or loved one.
Today I’m going to tell you about five awesome tech gifts that are truly useful, yet they won’t cost you an arm and a leg. In fact, all of them cost less than $100, and most of them cost about half that amount!
With the wonderful Christmas spirit (and a touch of frugality) in mind, here they are: [Read more…]
Have you ever paid Office Depot big bucks to fix your computer? If so, you just might have been scammed.
Several family members and acquaintances have told me about questionable dealings they’ve had with our local Office Depot’s computer computer service desk, but I figured it was just a bad apple or two at that one store.
But as the video below suggests, the entire Office Depot chain is apparently charging customers to “fix” computer problems that don’t even exist. Watch the video and check it out for yourself: [Read more…]
Are you a blogger who has been putting off the task of making your blog mobile-friendly? If so, I strongly recommend that you get it done ASAP!
In February of last year Google announced that mobile-friendly websites would soon start ranking higher in their search results than non-mobile-friendly sites.
Well, they are now ready to take their mobile-friendly policy to a new level by using mobile pages to determine the rankings in their search results. [Read more…]