Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Gail: I hope you’ll be able to answer a question for me, Rick.
I have a fairly active Twitter account for my business. I’ve had it for 3 years and it has over 11,000 followers and right at 18,600 tweets.
What I need to know is will changing my username cause me to lose my followers and tweets? [Read more…]
Question from Freida: I have a simple question about setting up a blog with WordPress.
If you could only use ONE plugin on your blog for some reason, which one plugin would that be?
Question from Adelle: I use an online photo editor called Pixlr and I really like it a lot. It’s hard to beat for the price in my opinion (it’s free lol).
Pixlr does most everything I need a photo editor to do, but I need to convert a certain photo to Black and White and I can’t find that option on the menu anywhere.
Surely it must have one. Can you tell me how to find it? [Read more…]
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Question from Craig: My friend and I got into a minor argument about the way you’re supposed to refer to a USB flash drive.
I call it a “thumb drive” and he says that’s incorrect.
I told him “thumb drive” is what lots of people call them and he told me they are wrong to call them that.
So in your opinion, which one of us it right? [Read more…]
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Question from Shane: I recently found your blog, and I love it. Great job!
I took your advice and replaced the hard drive in my laptop with an SSD to make it run faster.
Everything seems to be working ok and the speed increase is incredible, but I’m worried that I might have possibly damaged something while I was swapping out the drives. [Read more…]