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It seems that the scammers of the world are working overtime these days in an effort to separate you from your money and steal your identity.
The latest scam making the rounds is targeted at users of the popular Netflix streaming video service. This ploy is apparently a part of a concerted effort among fraudsters to expand their pool of potential victims to users of mainstream online services.
The Netflix scam works something like this: [Read more…]
Question from Craig H.: I’ve finally decided to update my iPhone 4 to iOS 7 but it won’t let me. The phone freezes up at the “Checking for updates” screen, and it remains frozen no matter how long I let it try.
Should I try updating it some other way? Am I doing something wrong? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Rick’s answer: Craig, I’m guessing that your iPhone has been jailbroken. If that’s the case, you won’t be able to install the update for iOS 7 until you un-jailbreak it.
Luckily, that’s real easy to do by simply restoring your phone to the factory default settings. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Question from Barb T.: Hi Rick. I have a simple question for you. Whenever I press the Enter key to go to the next line while typing in Open Office Writer, it automatically capitalizes the first letter of the first word on the line I just completed.
The thing is I write poetry, and I type everything in lower case. How can I prevent Open Office Writer from capitalizing the first letter on every line?
Thanks in advance for your assistance!
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Gio K.: Hi Rick. I use a lot of your tips, but my friend got a new windows 8 computer and he is wondering how he can disable the Control Panel. If you know any way to do that, please reply. Thank you.
Rick’s answer: Hello Gio. It’s actually quite easy to disable access to the Control Panel in Windows 8, and there are plenty of circumstances under which it might be desirable to do so.
Follow these steps to disable the Control Panel in Windows 8: [Read more…]
Could Microsoft be working on plans to give away their cash-cow Windows operating system for free? According to several reliable sources, the answer could be yes.
It’s no secret that Microsoft’s share of the operating system market is dwindling by the day, and it all started way back with the release of Apple’s first iPad. The guys and gals in Redmond apparently thought users would consider tablet PCs to be toys, not suitable replacements for desktop and laptop computers.
Well, they were wrong, and by the time they realized it the genie was already out of the bottle. [Read more…]