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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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…]
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First of all, I want to thank you very much for subscribing to my RicksDailyTips Newsletter and using some of your valuable time to read it each and every week. I appreciate that, and I appreciate YOU more than you can know!
When I send out these newsletter emails I try my very best to give you some useful tips and information in each and every one of them. My number one goal is to help you, my wonderful reader, make better use of today’s technology. [Read more…]
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If you’re like most folks these days, your PC’s hard drive is probably loaded with tons of photos, videos, music, Office documents and other files that would be difficult, if not impossible to replace should something happen to the drive.
Today I’m going to discuss several methods of recovering your precious files should that ever happen to you.
Of course the easiest way to recover one or more lost files is to simply retrieve them from a backup. Luckily, it’s easy to make multiple backup copies of our files these days by copying them onto inexpensive USB flash drives and external hard drives. [Read more…]
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