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RicksDailyTips Weekly Newsletter for April 15, 2017 – How to practice safe computing while on vacation

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newsletterHello again. I hope you had a great week and your spring is off to a great start!

In today’s connected world, taking a vacation doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll have to forgo using the Internet while you’re enjoying some tropical paradise or hiking some wilderness trail.

In fact, there aren’t that many places left in the world where you simply cannot find a way to get your laptop or mobile device connected to the web.

Unfortunately, using the Internet while you’re away from home is risky business unless you know how to do it safely.

Here are a few tips for keeping your private information private, and your identity all your own while you’re enjoying your summer vacation:  [Read more…]

RicksDailyTips Weekly Newsletter for Mar 25, 2017 – How to enable Two-Factor Authentication on your iCloud account

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Hello again everyone. I hope you all had a great week!

If you own an Apple device you probably also have an iCloud account that contains a major portion of your digital life. Have you ever considered what could happen if your iCloud were to be hacked?

As with most online accounts these days, you can lock down your iCloud account with Two-Factor Authentication to ensure that no one will be able to log into your account and/or access your stored information unless they have physical possession of your phone.

It’s quick and easy to enable it using either your Mac (running OSX El Capitan or later) or your iPhone/iPad (running iOS 9 or later). Just follow the steps below for your particular device.  [Read more…]

RicksDailyTips Weekly Newsletter for Mar 4, 2017 – Protecting your Apple devices from malware attacks

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newsletterHello again everyone. I hope you all had a great week!

This week I’m going to discuss the recent explosion in malware targeting Apple computers and mobile devices and give you a few tips for keeping your Apple gear malware-free.

For the longest time folks who used Mac computers and other Apple devices didn’t really have to worry that much about malware infecting their machines, but that has now changed.  [Read more…]

RicksDailyTips Newsletter for Dec. 31, 2016 – 4 predictions for the tech world in 2017

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Hello again, and Happy New Year!

Regardless of your perspective on life, I’m sure you will agree that 2016 was quite a year.

As happens every year, several major events took place in 2016. Some of them were good, and some were bad. The category each of them fell into depends entirely on your own perspective.

The pundits and prognosticators of the world will soon be rolling out their predictions for the new year, so I thought I would take this opportunity to give you a few predictions of my own. I hope you don’t mind.  [Read more…]

RicksDailyTips Newsletter for Dec. 17, 2016 – Why gift cards make fantastic Christmas gifts!

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Hello again. I hope you had a great week!

Well, the Christmas shopping season is about to switch into high gear. Christmas morning is only about a week away, and if tradition holds these last few shopping days will turn out to be filled with anxiety and frustration for many folks.

Today I have a little tip that can help you avoid much of that anxiety and frustration. Instead of spending hours on end shuffling through dozens of crowded stores, give your friends and family members gift cards and let them buy their perfect gifts themselves!  [Read more…]

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