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How to view all the passwords stored in Google Chrome and on your Android devices on one page
Did you know that Google keeps a record of all the passwords you have stored in your Chrome browser and your signed-in Android devices right on their website?
Well, they do, and there’s an easy way to view all of those stored passwords at one time. That makes it easy to quickly retrieve a password that you might have forgotten. [Read more…]
How to boot your Android phone or tablet into Safe Mode
If you’re a Windows or Mac user you probably know that restarting your computer in Safe Mode is a great way to troubleshoot software problems that are difficult to track down when everything but the kitchen sink is running on the machine.
In a nutshell, booting a device into Safe Mode ensures that only the most essential parts of the operating system and the most basic hardware drivers are loaded into memory to make it easier to track down those most stubborn issues.
Luckily, Android devices can be booted into Safe Mode as well. And like its Windows and OSX counterparts, Android’s Safe Mode only loads the bare essentials while totally ignoring all apps that didn’t come pre-installed from the factory.
If your Android tablet or phone is “acting up” as my grandmother used to say, try restarting it in Safe Mode and then launching your third-party apps one at a time until you find the app(s) that’s causing the problem. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Q&A: How can I prevent people’s faces from popping up on my phone when they send me a message on Facebook?
Question from Cindy: I got a new phone yesterday. It’s a Straight Talk and I love it. I’m having a small problem with it though.
After I got it home I installed the Facebook Messenger app on it and now my friend’s faces pop up on the home screen every time they send me a message.
I don’t like that because I don’t want just anyone who happens to glance at my phone to see who I’m talking to on Facebook.
How can I turn those picture notifications off?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Scam alert: Beware the ‘You have won the Facebook Lottery!’ scam
As you probably know by now, scammers love to target unsuspecting users on social media.
And of course Facebook is their favorite venue for perpetrating their scams due to its massive user base.
Well, there’s yet another new scam making the rounds on Facebook that’s targeting users who enjoy participating in lotteries. [Read more…]
How to quickly change all your WordPress blog’s URLS from ‘http’ to ‘https’ after enabling SSL encryption
If you’re a blogger you probably know that securing your blog with SSL encryption is now a must if you want your blog to succeed, for these reasons:
1 – Google has now started giving preference to SSL secure https pages in their search results.
That means all other things being equal, pages that have URLs that begin with https will rank higher than pages that begin with http.
Google has also begun displaying the URL’s of encrypted pages in their search results. That means it won’t be long before many searchers will simply skip over non-secure pages and visit the next available secure page instead. [Read more…]
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