Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Question from Billy E.: Rick, I’ve had several of my friends tell me they can’t share my posts anymore because they don’t have “Share” buttons on them.
Apparently this has just started happening because people used to share my stuff all the time.
Is there a setting that I need to change or something? I really need to get this fixed ASAP.
Thanks for your help.
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Question from Allenda G.: I have several blogs and websites that I visit every day to see if any new posts or articles have been published.
It’s really time-consuming to visit every one of them every day only to find that just a couple of them have added something new.
Is there some way to set up an alert that will let me know when a site has been updated?
My computer is an ASUS laptop with Window 10.
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Question from Amelda R.: I hope you can help me. I dropped a book on my keyboard and something happened to my screen.
Now, whenever I visit a website in Firefox the letters on the screen are so tiny I can barely read them.
How can I get them back to normal size? Everything is fine when I use Edge, but I really prefer using Firefox.
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Question from Alan F.: Hi Rick. I have a question for you.
I have a Gateway desktop PC that’s running Windows 7. I upgraded this machine to USB 3.0 by adding a USB 3.0 expansion card like you recommend here.
The only thing I use this particular computer for is writing blog posts in Microsoft Word before uploading them to my WordPress blogs. That’s the ONLY thing I use this PC for.
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? I don’t need to back up anything else, just the Word files and images.
I bought the USB 3.0 card because I need really fast data transfer speeds when backing up to the thumb drive and I’d hate to think I’ve wasted that money.
A buddy of mine says thumb drives aren’t reliable enough to use for backup storage. What’s your opinion about that?
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Question from Jill: Hi Rick, I’ve just joined your Rick’s Tech Tips Facebook group and already have learned so much!
I have a Facebook question. I don’t know if it is within your scope, but here goes.
I’m an admin on a group and from time to time one of the members posts links for things like Psychic Reading pages and similar things.
These links appear to be affiliate links and I think the person posting them receives some type of payment.
However there is a message going round that these posts are not in fact coming from that person but are somehow being sent by a third party purporting to be the member. And that’s what the person posting the links is claiming too.
If she is indeed posting these links I plan to remove her and block her from the group.
So my question is, is it possible that she’s telling the truth or is this just an excuse she’s using after having been caught?
The reason I ask is this person has been a member in good standing for many years and this issue only arose within the past few months. Overall she has been a real asset to the group.
Rick’s answer: Hi Jill, and welcome to my tech group! [Read more…]
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