Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
When most folks set up a wireless router they create a secure Wi-Fi network that’s protected by a wireless security key (commonly referred to as a “password”).
Most computers and mobile devices will “remember” the passwords for each of the wireless networks they connect to, allowing the device to automatically connect to a network whenever the device comes into range.
That’s a wonderful feature, but it can lead to a problem… [Read more…]
Your mouse wheel makes it easy to scroll down most any page web, but if you spend a lot of time on Facebook there’s a better way: Use your keyboard!
All you have do is press the letter J (as in Juliet) to scroll down to the next post in your Newsfeed.
Pressing the J key on your keyboard will instantly display the next post in its entirety (if it will fit on the screen) without having to move your mouse up and down to center the post. [Read more…]
A while back I wrote a post entitled Give an old PC new life by replacing Windows with Linux as a means of extending the useful life of older PCs.
After that post was published I received a number of emails asking for a list of Linux programs that can replace the Windows programs they’d leaving behind if they made the switch.
I decided that it might be a good idea to publish that list in its own blog post, and here it is: [Read more…]
If you use Yahoo Mail or AOL Mail (or both) you should know that the latest changes they’ve made to their Terms of Service (TOS) completely trashes your privacy.
Both of those services are now owned by Oath, the media division of Verizon.
Oath has merged their two TOSs into one and made some pretty disturbing changes in the process. [Read more…]
Question from Paula: My computer is a Dell desktop running Windows 10 and I’m having an irritating problem with it.
I have a folder that I’ve been using for months and all of a sudden it gets stuck when I try to open it. It just freezes up for a while and displays the message “Working on it…“.
If I wait long enough the folder will eventually open and I can use it like I always have, but it seems to take longer and longer every day. It took well over a minute to open a little while ago.
How can I stop this folder from freezing up on me? All the other folders on my computer open just fine.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
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