Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Hello again everyone. I hope you all had a great week!
I receive hundreds of tech questions each week, and many of them are about Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site.
I could write a book about Facebook’s many idiosyncrasies and the various ways to deal with them, but that’s for another day.
In the meantime, I thought I’d simply take a few minutes to share a few of my most popular (as determined by reader response) Facebook tips in this week’s newsletter: [Read more…]
Hello everyone. I hope you all had a great week!
Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, lots of folks have turned their attention to Christmas shopping. And especially at this time of year, we’re out to spend as little as we can get by with!
These days the latest tech gear tops many a Christmas wish list, but it helps to keep in mind that shopping for computers, smart phones, game consoles and such is a lot different from shopping for sweaters and neckties. [Read more…]
Hello everyone. I hope you all had a great week!
Last week I explained how most anyone can launch a full or part time blogging career for only $1. This week I’ll talk about some of the things you’ll need to do in order to build your blog and make it a success.
First of all, you’ll need to choose a great domain name for your blog. This is one of the most important things to consider when you are preparing to build out your blog because a good domain will help boost your search engine rankings and help folks remember your blog’s URL. [Read more…]
Hello everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic week!
I receive hundreds of tech questions in my email inbox every week, and the one I seem to get asked most often is how to retrieve the files from the hard drive after a PC goes belly-up. The answer always depends on which part of the computer has failed.
If the hard drive itself is the component that died, you’ll have to either send the drive off to a data recovery service or purchase a data recovery software utility and attempt to recover the files yourself. This blog post gives more information on both of those options. [Read more…]
Windows 10 has now been out for well over a month, and I believe most of the bugs and kinks have been worked out by now.
If your PC is running either Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you can give Windows 10 a try for free. If you don’t like it you’ll have 30 days to roll back to your previous Windows version.
You can install the free Windows 10 upgrade by clicking the “Get Windows Now” icon located in the lower right-hand corner of your screen. If you don’t see the icon, make sure you have installed all available Windows updates, then look for the icon again. It should be there. [Read more…]
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