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Several people have asked me how to delete an email account from the Gmail app on a Nexus 10 tablet, so I thought it might be a good idea to put the answer in a tip. I hope some of you find it useful.
This is actually a relatively easy task to complete, but as with many things Android, it isn’t so easy if you don’t know how to go about it.
Follow these steps to remove an email account from the Nexus 10 Gmail app: [Read more…]
Malware seems to be attacking our computers from every direction these days, but we still tend to take the security of the world’s most trafficked websites as a given. As it turns out, that could be a huge mistake.
According to online security firm Fox IT, hundreds of thousands of visitors to the massive network of Yahoo websites on or around January 3 were served ads that redirected their browsers to websites containing malware. Once on a computer, the malware exploits security holes in the JAVA framework that’s installed on the PC. [Read more…]
Question from Brenda G: Hi Rick. I desperately need your help! I have an Acer Aspire AS5733Z-4477 laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium. I’ve never had a problem with it installing Windows Updates before, but this time it won’t finish installing them.
What happens is the updates will install within Windows, then it tells me to reboot the computer. It then tries to finish installing the updates during the reboot, but it always gets stuck at 35% and just sits there. How can I get it to finish the process and boot on up into Windows?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Thanks to a new feature in iOS 7, iPhone users can now turn on the camera’s flash and use it as a flashlight without having to install a third-party app.
In my opinion, this is a feature that should have been included in the operating system of every smart phone for years.
There are several flashlight apps available for the iPhone, but now we don’t have to use them on phones running iOS 7.
It’s easy to turn on the new Flashlight feature. Here’s how: [Read more…]
If you use the popular Snapchat messaging app there’s a good chance that your username and phone number could be in the hands of criminals right now.
Snapchat has announced that a recent security breach has allowed the usernames and phone numbers of 4.6 million registered users to be stolen by hackers.
While this breach isn’t anywhere near as serious as most of the ones that have been in the news lately, it could still cause problems for the unlucky victims. [Read more…]