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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Monday, August 21, 2023
Topics covered in this issue…
• How to search Google for multiple words at once
• How to prevent your laptop from getting stolen on campus
• Q&A: Can you recommend a cheap motherboard for my HP computer?
• Video: How many of these things from the 70s can you remember?
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Today’s featured tech tip….
How to search Google for multiple words at once
Have you ever done a Google search only to have a very small number of pages returned in the search results?
That happens fairly often, and there’s a very easy way to increase the number of results your search will produce: Use the OR operator.
That’s right, you can search for multiple words at once by placing the word OR between them.
For example, let’s say you want to do a search for diet colas but include results for Coke, Pepsi or both. This is what you would type into the Google search box:
coke OR pepsi diet cola
When presented with that search query, Google will respond with pages that include any of those search terms, even if the other searched words aren’t on a the page(s).
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• How to prevent your laptop from getting stolen on campus
Laptops are among the items that are reported stolen most often on college campuses. This post explains how to make sure it never happens to yours.
• Q&A: Can you recommend a cheap motherboard for my HP computer?
This post has my best answer (and a recommendation).
• Click here to see today’s ‘Picture of the Day’.
Every morning I post a new photo that I find inspiring, intriguing, or just plain beautiful to look at. Jumpstart your day by checking it out.
Rick’s Daily Pick…
TP-Link Deco X20 WiFi 6 Mesh System
Are there dead spots in your home or office’s Wi-Fi coverage? If so, this will eliminate them and give you a strong and fast Wi-Fi signal in every room.
Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Video: How many of these things from the 70s can you remember?
Good times…
Tech news that caught my eye…
• X (Twitter) deletes photos posted between 2011-2014
• Google AI now summarizes entire articles for you
• Judge rules that AI-created art isn’t copyrightable
• Mozilla disables Pull-to-refresh by default in Firefox for Android
• Chrome will soon warn you when installed extensions are malware
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