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Posted on September 23, 2018

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Q&A: Can you recommend a good parental control software that’s free?

Posted on September 23, 2018

Question from Renee: I just bought my 9 year old son his first computer. It’s an Acer laptop with Windows 10.

Can you recommend a good parental control software program that doesn’t cost a lot (hopefully free)?

Ideally the program would prevent him from visiting porn sites and downloading any programs.

Any advice you can give me will be much appreciated. Thanks.

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Picture of the Day: “Oklahoma Sunrise”

Posted on September 23, 2018

From photographer Larry Smith: I was driving through the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Oklahoma when I rounded a curve and encountered this amazing sunrise. I hope you like it.

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How to enable Two-Factor Authentication on your WordPress blog

Posted on September 22, 2018

With hackers and scammers attacking WordPress blogs right and left these days, it’s more important than ever to lock your blog down and make it as secure as possible.

There are several things you can do to harden the security of your blog, but one of the most effective methods of thwarting hackers is enabling Two-Factor Authentication on it.

I’ve used several different plugins for enabling two factor authentication on my own WordPress blogs, but I now use and recommend the awesome Google Authenticator plugin from our friends at Google.

Google Authenticator is extremely easy to install and set up, and it’s even easier to use. Just follow the steps below. [Read more…]

Q&A: Why does my laptop shut down our Wi-Fi network every time I turn it on?

Posted on September 22, 2018

Question from Ronnie M.: Hi Rick. I have a really strange problem that I need help with.

We’ve had Xfinity Internet for years and the Wi-Fi has always worked perfectly until recently.

A couple of weeks ago my Dell laptop started causing our Wi-Fi network to completely shut down every time I turn it on.

The Wi-Fi can be working perfectly on our other computers, on our phones and on the kids’ Xbox, but within 5 minutes after turning on my laptop the Wi-Fi stops working on everything in the house. The devices still show an active connection but we can’t do anything on the Internet.

The crazy thing is I don’t even have to be using the Internet on my computer for this to happen.

In fact, I don’t even have to have a web browser open. It just happens. But the Wi-Fi starts working again on the other devices just as soon as I shut my laptop down.

Do you have any idea what could be causing this? I thought it might be a virus but I have three antivirus programs running on my computer and none of them are finding anything.

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