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My “Pick” for today is this fantastic Amazon Echo Spot.
This little gem combines the functionality of a traditional alarm clock with the power of a smart speaker / Alexa-based virtual assistant. Listen to your favorite music, control your smart devices and more.
Click here to check out the Amazon Echo Spot at Amazon.
Today’s POTD features a nighttime view of some colorful toadstools, illuminated by the light of the camera flash. I hope you like it.
By the way, if you have lots of treasured photos of your own that you’d love to display in your home but you have limited wall space, a digital picture frame (#ad) is an excellent solution. Check them out!
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July’s winner will receive this fantastic Ring Battery Doorbell Plus.
This little gem will show you who is at your door before you answer it. It will also record the video!
All subscribers to the Standard edition of my Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter have an equal chance to win.
Premium subscribers have two chances to win (their email addresses are added to the “pot” twice).
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The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on July 31 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.
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Over the years I’ve worked on lots of computers that exhibited all the classic signs of a malware infection.
And as you might expect, many of the owners of those machines insisted that the problem couldn’t possibly be malware because they regularly scan their systems with antivirus programs.
But when I ran my own scans on those systems, I often discovered that they were indeed infected, some of them with dozens of viruses, spyware objects, malicious toolbars and other digital nasties.
How could that be? [Read more…]
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By now you probably know that Amazon Prime members get fast and free shipping on Prime-eligible products plus a bunch of other awesome perks. It truly is one of the best deals around.
That being said, you might be reluctant to sign up for a Prime membership due to the $139 annual fee, especially if you tend to cluster your Amazon shopping at various times of the year.
Well guess what? You can sign up for Amazon Prime one month at a time if you only need it for a short time. [Read more…]
Did you know YouTube maintains a list of every search you’ve ever made via YouTube’s search box?
And did you know they also maintain a list of every video you have ever watched on their site?
This might not seem like a big deal to some folks, especially if the things they search for and the videos they watch aren’t controversial in any way.
However, you might consider it a huge deal if you go to great lengths to protect your online privacy.