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I don’t know about you, but I hate it when a video begins playing automatically just as soon as I load a web page into my browser.
Plenty of sites allow you to toggle a setting to disable autoplaying videos, but most of them don’t.
And even in the ones that do, it’s a major hassle having to wade through a site’s settings in order to figure out how to disable autoplaying videos, especially on sites that you don’t visit all that often. [Read more…]
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Question from Melvin: I need to buy a new computer because my 6 year old desktop has started giving me all kinds of problems.
I want to buy a machine that’ll last for several years and I’ve always had good luck with buying the more expensive Dells.
I’ve been looking at the Dell desktops on Amazon and this one caught my attention.
I’m fairly computer savvy but this line in the computer’s description confuses me: [Read more…]
You might have grown up with a screen next to your bed and a keyboard at your fingertips, but many older members of your family gained tech literacy much later in their lives.
Acquiring new skills can be difficult for older adults, especially when those skills are so different from any of their other life experiences. [Read more…]
Question from Kenny L.: I read your post about using the “Facebook Debugger” to force Facebook to show the new version of an updated blog post when you re-share the URL.
Thank you so much for that. It was a big help to me!
My question is does LinkedIn have a similar tool?
Every time I update a post on my blog and then re-share the URL on LinkedIn it insists on showing the title and image I had used for the old version. That’s incredibly frustrating!
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
If you recently updated your Edge browser you might have noticed that Microsoft has placed a new ‘Discover’ button in the top-right corner of the browser window.
That new button looks like this:
If you click on this button it’ll open up an extra panel that offers various features that interact with the also-new AI-powered Bing.
Apparently there are lots of folks who aren’t too keen on using this new button, and several of them have asked me if there’s any way to remove it from the browser interface. [Read more…]