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Question from Kellie: I dropped my three year old iPhone 7 Plus and cracked the screen.
The phone still works but parts of the screen are unreadable.
I’ve never really been happy with this phone so I’m just going to replace it with an Android phone when I get paid next week.
My question is how can I copy the photos I’ve taken with the iPhone onto a Lenovo laptop that has Windows 10 on it?
Question from Mike: Chrome used to display the word “Secure” in the address bar to indicate that the webpage you’re viewing is encrypted.
I really liked that because I didn’t have to worry about hackers stealing my info if I typed anything into a form on that page.
A while back I noticed that Google has removed that “Secure” indicator from Chrome’s address bar.
Why on earth did they get rid of it?
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Question from Shauna: I hope you will answer a question for me, Rick.
My business partner bought a new desk for her office. It’s really nice because it has lots of handy storage areas.
One of those storage areas is the perfect size to hold her desktop computer tower. I believe it was designed to hold a computer because there’s a hole to route the cables through in the back.
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Question from Brett P.: I recently bought a gaming PC and it performs awesomely well on my favorite games.
My problem is I travel frequently for work and I can’t take the gaming machine with me.
I also have a Dell Latitude business notebook that’s supplied by my company that I use when I’m on the road.
I know this laptop is capable of running my games but I’m not allowed to install them on it (company rules).
Do you think I can use TeamViewer to remotely play games on the desktop back at home over the Internet using the laptop in a hotel room?
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Question from Barry: I need to do some maintenance on my leaf blower so I downloaded the owner’s manual to my phone.
The file downloaded just fine but when I try to open it I get an error message saying there’s no app for opening PDF files on my device.
What am I doing wrong? I really need to open this file so I can work on my leaf blower.
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