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Do you own a blog or some other type of website?
If so, you should know that it’s a very dangerous practice to assign control of your domain name and/or website content to a third party.
If you allow someone else to take control of those vital assets, you just might have a very difficult time regaining control of them if your relationship with that person or company goes south.
In fact, it just might be impossible! [Read more…]
The new crop of 2019 laptops are here, and as expected there are a number of them to choose from.
The models that are getting the most attention are expensive business and gaming laptops, but there are several new general purpose laptops out there as well.
One case in point is the sleek new HP 2019 14-CF0014DX 14″ Laptop.
This is a nice, compact laptop that’s about the perfect size for folks who travel frequently.
Its 14 inch screen is plenty large enough for easy viewing, yet the laptop itself is small enough to carry with you most anywhere. It’s also relatively light at about three pounds.
Before we get into too many details let’s take a quick look at the specs: [Read more…]
Question from Juliana P.: I was talking to some friends the other day and someone asked why Microsoft skipped Windows 9 and jumped from Windows 8.1 straight to Windows 10.
None of us knew the answer to that question. Can you tell us why they did it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
As you surely know by now, scammers and hackers are always working overtime to take advantage of innocent Facebook users.
Unfortunately, scammers are quite active on other social media sites as well.
Right now there’s a very dangerous phishing scam being spread via instant messages on Instagram.
These days most everyone is familiar with Windows’ sleek graphical user interface (i.e. GUI) and how it allows us to do most anything with a click or two of the mouse.
But those who started using computers back in the early days of home computing know that using a PC wasn’t always that easy.
Back then there was no such thing as a “GUI” interface. If you wanted your computer to complete a specific task you had to type a somewhat cryptic “command” onto a stark and lifeless screen.
As you can imagine, most DOS commands were far from intuitive and it took a while for even frequent users to learn how to use some of them effectively. A few commands were fairly straightforward however.
Let’s take a look at an example. Here’s a screenshot that depicts what you would type at a command prompt in order to format a floppy disk and make it “bootable” (a frequent task back in the DOS era): [Read more…]
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