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Question from Iris: A while back I signed up for Amazon Music Unlimited and I used it every day for a while.
One of my wo-workers turned me onto Spotify and now I prefer using that instead.
Can you tell me how to cancel my Amazon Music Unlimited subscription?
I just don’t see the point in subscribing to two music services. [Read more…]
Question from Rita: My granddaughter is in the Air Force and the last time she was in she opened a Snapchat account on my phone so I can chat with her while she’s overseas.
The name she gave me on there is “Grandma”.
That’s fine, but I’ve recently started talking to other people on Snapchat and I’d like to use my real name instead of Grandma.
Can you tell me how to change it? [Read more…]
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Question from Janie: I have an Asus VW266 27″ LCD monitor that I’ve had for several years. I’d really like to keep it because my late father gave it to me before he passed away, but I’ve started having problems with it.
About a month ago it started taking a minute or two for anything to be displayed on the screen after I turned it on.
The screen would just stay black for a couple of minutes, then display the picture.
These past few days it’s taking longer still for the picture to show. The screen stayed black for about 20 minutes this morning. [Read more…]
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Question from Doreen: Hi, Rick. I moonlight doing product research for a local company, and I often find myself having to scan looooong web pages for a certain word or phrase related to the task at hand.
Some of these pages are literally thousands of words in length, and the font size is often very small which makes it even harder to find what I’m looking for.
Is there any way that I can just search for the word or phrase and have Firefox take me right to it? [Read more…]
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Question from Sophia: I’ve been seeing ads for UV phone sanitizers that supposedly will kill any Covid-19 viruses that might be on a phone.
My question is do they really work?
I’ve checked around and these things are fairly expensive.
I’d hate to buy one if it won’t really protect me from the virus. Better safe than sorry, right? [Read more…]