Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
Have you ever received a text message that you thought should really be forwarded to someone else (i.e. a message with instructions from the boss, for example)?
Forwarding a text message to another person is really pretty easy once you know how to do it.
However, the Forwarding procedure isn’t all that obvious because that option is pretty much “hidden” from view on both iPhones and Androids. [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
Unlike (most of) their Android counterparts, recent iPhones tend to retain at least some decent resale value over time.
Even so, if you’re careful about checking out the phones you’re thinking about buying, going with a used iPhone can save you some cash when you decide it’s time to get a “new” one.
To that end, there are several things you need to do before making the decision to purchase any used iPhone: [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
Question from Rhonda: My cell service is from T-Mobile and they label calls they think might be from scammers as “Scam Likely”.
I get several of these “Scam Likely” calls a day and I’ve been just ignoring them.
But the other day I got a call from my friend (who lives out of state) and it mistakenly labeled her call as “Scam Likely”. [Read more…]
If you’re a regular Facebook user, you know their developers love making changes to the way their mobile app works.
Just about the time we get used to something, they go and change it on us.
For me, one of the most irritating changes they’ve ever made is forcing external links to open in the in-app browser instead of my device’s default browser.
Question from Deidra: I have grounded my 13 year old daughter for a month for getting into some pretty serious trouble at school.
Part of her “grounding” is a total ban on cell phone and Internet use of any kind.
To enforce that, I’ve had her iPhone shut off and I’ve also turned off the Wi-Fi on our router.
The problem is she’s still finding a way to get on Facebook and talk to her friends because I can see her “liking” stuff and leaving comments. How is that possible? [Read more…]