Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
It seems like much of this past week was spent answering various questions about Facebook, so I thought I would pass along a few links to some of the posts I referred to in my responses.
Probably the most common Facebook question that I receive is how to prevent one’s account from getting hacked. And the answer is it all boils down to security.
With that in mind, here are five things you can do to make your Facebook account as secure as possible: [Read more…]
As you probably know, modern day malware comes in many forms.
Some varieties, such as adware, are often merely annoying.
But more malicious forms of malware can actually wreck your Windows installation and help hackers steal your identity and/or your valuable financial information.
A high-quality anti-virus program such as Avast can help keep your computer free of malware, but a special class of malware known as rootkits often goes undetected by regular virus scans.
Rootkits load into your computer’s memory before Windows even boots up, and that makes them especially difficult to find. [Read more…]
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Laptops are great! They give us plenty of computing power, yet they’re easy to carry along with us when we travel.
What’s more, we can use them virtually anywhere that our daily routine takes us!
But when the battery in your laptop will no longer hold a charge, it really limits your options when you need to fire it up and get some work done.
There are many places to buy replacement laptop batteries, but my favorite is Amazon. Why? There are several reasons: [Read more…]
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Did you know you can buy a complete computer system on Amazon for less than $200?
Well, you can, and these are typically well-built business class machines!
You’ll find plenty of refurbished computer systems for sale on Amazon, many of which are indeed selling for between 100 and 200 bucks!
Of course these aren’t the latest technology machines, but they are in working order and well-suited for Internet use and many other everyday tasks such as running an office suite. [Read more…]
When you download a file using your web browser, the file is placed in a special “Downloads” folder where you can retrieve it and do as you wish with it.
If you use two or more different browsers on a regular basis, this can become quite confusing because each browser uses its own ‘downloads” folder.
And unfortunately, those downloads folders are typically located in different places on the hard drive.
I keep four different web browsers open at all times when I’m working because it makes the way I prefer to work easier to manage.
I only have one common downloads folder however (C:\Downloads\), and all of my browsers save their downloads in that one common folder. If you’d like to do the same thing, this post explains how to set it up. [Read more…]