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How to quickly find a word or phrase on a web page

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The amount of information available on the Internet with just a few clicks of the mouse boggles the mind.

If all that info was published in a single book it would probably be thick enough to reach all the way to the moon.

That’s why Google and other Internet search engines are so important for helping us find the info we need in a timely manner.

But a single web page can hold a lot of information as well, and if you need to find something on a large, congested page it can be like finding a needle in a haystack.  [Read more…]

Do this to prevent your Facebook account from getting cloned

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By now you probably know that Facebook accounts are getting cloned by scammers right and left these days.

Luckily, having a scammer clone your account isn’t as bad as having someone hack into it, but it’s still bad – especially for the people on your friends list.

In case you’re unfamiliar with account cloning, it’s where a scammer creates a completely new Facebook account in your name and populates it with photos and personal information they’ve copied from your real account.

They then use the new fake account to send friend requests to all the people on your real account’s friends list.  [Read more…]

Google is storing your search history. Here’s how to stop it

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A while back I wrote a post explaining how to delete your entire search history that Google has collected and stored since the moment you began using their service way back when.

Several of you have since written in and asked me if there’s a way to prevent Google from gathering and storing that information in the first place? Well, the answer to that question is yes.

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How to enable ‘Whisper Mode’ on an Alexa device

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Do you ever have any conversations with your Alexa device that you’d prefer that other family members or house guests not be able to hear?

Or do you occasionally prompt Alexa to answer a query late at night only to have her wake up everyone in the house with her reply?

Well, as luck would have it, your Alexa device has a nifty “Whisper Mode” that can prevent others from hearing (and/or being disturbed by) the conversations you have with the device.  [Read more…]

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