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Review: Carbonite online backup service
If you’ve ever had a laptop stolen or suffered a hard drive crash, you already know that losing your precious photos, music, Word documents and other critical files is even worse than having to replace the hardware.
If you didn’t have a current backup, you most likely lost every scrap of your irreplaceable data. That’s why always having a current backup of your hard drive on hand is absolutely critical.
But did you know that just backing up your data onto an external hard drive isn’t enough? What happens if a fire or flood destroys your home and everything in it? In addition to your computer being destroyed, you’ll lose your backup drive too! [Read more…]
Q&A: Can I force my Google Play account to require a password for every purchase?
Question from Michelle H.: I sometimes loan my phone to my 9 year old son so he can play a game, and I recently found out that he sneaked into the Google Play Store and bought several games without my permission.
We had a long mother-son talk and he assured me that he won’t do it again, but I’d really like to force the Play Store to ask for my password for every purchase. Is there a way to do that?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Scam alert: Beware the free VPN app ‘S5Mark’ – It’s actually malware!
As you probably know, many free download sites attach additional “drive-by” downloads to the files you download from their sites to your PC.
A relative handful of those “add-on” programs are actually beneficial, but the vast majority of them are simply junk that will bloat your system and slow it down.
Even worse, some add-ons that claim to provide a useful service are actually malware that will spy on you and/or do nefarious things and make it look like you’re the culprit.
One of the most insidious “drive-by” add-ons that you’re likely to ever encounter is a program called S5Mark. [Read more…]
How to email multiple files as a single attachment
Have you ever had to email a bunch of photos or other files to someone else?
If so, you probably had to send all of those files as attachments in a series of several different emails.
Luckily, there’s an easy way to email lots of files as one single attachment.
All you have to do is place all of the files you wish to send into a compressed ‘zipped’ folder. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Picture of the Day: “The End of the Rainbow”
Today’s “Picture of the Day” takes us across the ocean to Scotland’s Isle of Skye, a sparsely populated but extremely beautiful island located in the Inner Hebrides.
Photographer Martin J. Knight took this striking photo of the literal end of a rainbow. I hope you like it.
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fortress, Bamburgh feted royal guests and English kings, one of whom,
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