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Question from Carla T.: I have a 3 year old MacBook that’s running OS X Mavericks and my son has been bugging me about upgrading the OS X to El Capitan.
I’m hesitant to do that because everything is running great and I don’t want to mess anything up.
I’m really confused about what to do because I’ve heard horror stories about upgrades that go wrong and trash the system. Do you think I should upgrade or not?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
I receive lots of emails from readers asking me to explain confusing tech terms in simple, easy to understand English.
Well, truth be told, it’s not always that easy to explain some terminology in a way that a non-geek (I admit it, I am one!) can easily understand what it means.
That being said, I do try my best whenever I can. Other times I feel it’s best to enlist the help of an expert who can better explain the whys and wherefores of a particular topic. And this is one of those times. [Read more…]
If you’re been using Facebook for a while, I’m sure you’re familiar with this scenario:
You’re scrolling through your Facebook news feed when an interesting post catches your attention. You make a mental note to come back and read it later when you have more time, but when you search for it later you can’t find it again.
A while back I wrote a post explaining how to bookmark an individual post on Facebook. That process isn’t complicated and it works extremely well, but now Facebook has added a new feature that makes bookmarking posts that contain shared links a quick two-click process. Here’s how to do it: [Read more…]
In my opinion Windows 10 is the best version of Windows that Microsoft has ever released. It’s visually appealing, and for the most part it seems to work flawlessly.
As with every version of Windows, there are a few tweaks you can make to your Windows 10 installation that can greatly reduce your system’s startup time and make it run faster overall. [Read more…]
The Internet makes it possible to use thousands of wonderful online services and access enough information to fill warehouses full of encyclopedias on virtually every subject known to man.
Many of these resources only become available to you after signing up for an online account, but what happens when you no longer need or want to use a service or access the information provided by a specific website?
Closing an online account should take no more than two or three clicks of the mouse, and it usually is really that simple. The trick however is finding the place on the website where you need to begin the clicking. [Read more…]