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Question from Barbara: Hi, Rick. I have a very urgent problem and I need your help, ASAP!
Everything was fine when I went to bed last night, but when I woke up this morning and turned on my laptop to check my email, the laptop couldn’t find my WiFi network.
I had it scan for available networks and it found just one (and it had a really nasty name that I can’t repeat here). [Read more…]
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Question from Carol: Hi, Rick. I need your help with a problem I’m having if you don’t mind.
I recently had a stroke and it affected my eyesight. My recovery is going well but I still don’t see nearly as well as I used to.
One of the biggest problems I have is reading the text on my phone. It would help a lot if I could make the letters bigger.
Can you tell me if that’s possible and how to change it if it is? [Read more…]
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Question from Anita: I have a very dear friend who recently put up a Facebook page for her business. She asked me to “Like” her page, and I did.
Now I receive at least a dozen posts from her page in my news feed every day, and to be honest I have no interest whatsoever in the things she is selling.
Is there any way to block the posts from her page without having to “Unlike” it? I care very much about this person and I really don’t want to hurt her feelings if I can help it.
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Question from Jeannie: Hi, Rick. I live in an area that’s prone to frequent electrical storms so I’ve always been fanatical about keeping my electronic stuff plugged into surge protectors.
But I heard the other day that surge protectors can go bad after a while. Is that true? [Read more…]
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Question from Alan: Hi, Rick. I have a question for you.
I have a desktop PC that I use only for writing blog posts in Microsoft Word before uploading them to my WordPress blogs..
I plan to turn my blog posts into a series of books some day so I want to keep the posts stored on my hard drive in MS Word format.
Right now the 7 folders containing the posts and their associated images add up to a grand total of a little over 22 Gigabytes.
My question is do you see anything wrong with using a 64 GB USB thumb drive to hold backup copies of these 7 folders? [Read more…]