Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
I’m often asked which websites I use the most often throughout my workday.
Well, there are a bunch of great sites that find myself visiting over and over again, and I thought I’d take this opportunity to tell you about a few of them.
Here is a short list of the five websites I visit most often while researching and writing blog posts for Rick’s Daily Tips and working in my shop: [Read more…]
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Are you thinking about starting a blog to share your thoughts and experiences with the world?
Or perhaps you’d like to start one to supplement your retirement income?
Whatever your reason for wanting to create a new blog, there’s a little secret that will allow you to purchase your new blog’s domain name from Godaddy for just 99 cents! [Read more…]
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Modern personal computers are amazing machines. They allow us to do things in minutes that once took hours or days as well as many other things that couldn’t be done at all in times past.
But even with all their awesome power and capabilities, computers are no fun to use when they’re running slowly and freezing up at random times.
Today I’m going to discuss a few things you can do to help speed up a sluggish PC and hopefully avoid having to deal with erratic system performance.
Let’s get started… [Read more…]
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Until recently Windows users have been the prime targets for ransomware attacks, but now the scammers are trying to lock up your smartphone as well.
In fact, a huge wave of Android ransomware is spreading around the globe as we speak.
My phone has tons of photos and other irreplaceable files stored on it, and I’m guessing yours does too. Can you imagine losing every last piece of your digital life to a ransomware attack?
Luckily, there are several things you can do to protect your phone and the information stored on it from this growing threat: [Read more…]
Hello again! I hope you had a great week! And be sure to have a wonderful Labor Day weekend!
If you’ve recently started writing a blog you’ll soon begin to see spammers leaving comments on your blog posts. Sadly, dealing with spammers is just a fact of life for those of us in the blogging world.
SPAM comments are usually very easy to recognize because they typically have nothing whatsoever to do with the actual content of the post and they often contain multiple links to sites selling everything from designer sunglasses to, well…”adult” products.
If you allow SPAMMY comments to be left on your blog they’ll quickly have a negative effect on your traffic numbers. Even worse, the visitors who do manage to find their way onto your blog will likely leave rather quickly, never to return.
Luckily, there are some things you can do to virtually block all SPAM comments from your blog: [Read more…]
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