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How to safely clean your computer or mobile device

Posted on August 16, 2025

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If you’ve been reading my tips for a while you know how often I stress the importance of keeping viruses and other forms of malware off of your computers and mobile devices.

Malware is the number one cause of sluggish system performance. Even worse, it can cause you to suffer monetary loss and even identify theft.

But as you might imagine, it’s just as important to keep your devices “clean” in the physical sense – and that includes the inside of a desktop computer or laptop.

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Q&A: How can I remove ‘Sent from my iPhone’ from outgoing emails?

Posted on August 15, 2025

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Question from Barbara: I recently learned that every email I send with my iPhone includes a line that says “Sent from my iPhone”.

There are times when I’d rather not tip off the recipient that I sent their email using my phone.

Is there any way to remove the “Sent from my iPhone” message from my outgoing emails? [Read more…]

Here’s a simple tip for faster typing on your smartphone

Posted on August 15, 2025

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Do you do a lot of typing on your smartphone’s virtual keyboard?

If so, you surely know how difficult it can be trying to tap the correct letters and select the proper punctuation marks.

One tip that can really save you a lot of time when typing on your phone is skipping the period at the end of a sentence and pressing the space bar twice instead.

Pressing the space bar twice saves time in the following ways: [Read more…]

Photoshop Express: Edit photos right on your phone or tablet

Posted on August 8, 2025

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The cameras built into modern smart phones and tablets are getting better all the time, and many of those devices already take photos that are at least as good as those taken with consumer-grade point-and-shoot cameras.

Now that most of us are carrying such capable cameras around with us 24/7, doesn’t it make sense to have a great photo editing app on our devices as well? [Read more…]

Speed up your phone by uninstalling this popular, but unnecessary app

Posted on August 1, 2025

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Does your smartphone seem sluggish and slow compared to the way it ran when you first got it?

If so, there is one hugely popular, but quite unnecessary app that could be slowing your phone down to a crawl. And even if it isn’t horribly impacting the speed of your device, it’s probably draining its battery.

Chances are you use this app every single day, even though you don’t really need it and you’ll give up absolutely nothing by removing it.

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