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Do you have an iPhone that supports 5G cellular connectivity?
If so, disabling 5G and forcing the device to use 4G LTE instead (if you don’t really need the extra speed provided by 5G, of course) will do two things for you: [Read more…]
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If you shop at Amazon you’re probably familiar with the emails they send letting their customers know when an order has shipped.
But did you know you can have them text you as well?
They will, and it’s very easy to set up. [Read more…]
Question from Darla: I hope you can help me, Rick.
I gained some weight over the last few years, and it’s really starting to affect my health.
I recently decided to start working out and eating better to try to get back to my “normal” weight.
One of my friends suggested that I download a QR code scanning app so I can get the nutrition info for the foods on restaurant menus.
Can you recommend a good QR code scanning app for my phone? It’s an Android. [Read more…]
If you’ve had an Android phone for a while, you’ve probably noticed that it’s slower and less responsive than it was when you first bought it.
If that’s the case, one of the major culprits could be bloated log files, browser caches and other large “temporary” files that are clogging up your phone’s storage space.
Just like Windows and other operating systems, Android and the apps that run on it store all kinds of historical information such as visited web pages, recently used contacts, old text messages, and a whole lot more. [Read more…]
Do you often receive photos and other files that were sent to you as attachments to Gmail messages?
If so, it might be a good idea to save a copy of the important attachments in order to prevent losing them if those emails ever get deleted or lost. [Read more…]