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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Tuesday, May 24, 2022
• Create a Recovery Flash Drive for your Chromebook
• Q&A: What does it mean to ‘jailbreak’ an iPhone?
• Q&A: How can I find out which processor my Mac has in it?
• The ten greatest inventions of Nikola Tesla
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
By default, when people call you on your smartphone the ringtone will sound the same regardless of who is calling you.
And that can be a problem if your phone starts ringing while it’s sitting on a table on the other side of the room.
The caller could well be someone you really want to talk to, but it could also be a call you’d rather skip for the time being.
Unfortunately, the only way to find out is to stop what you’re doing and go pick up the phone.
Well, there’s an easy fix or this problem… [Read more…]
Countless people send and receive sensitive information via SMS text messages every day.
If you’re one of them you might be surprised to learn that the content of your texts are wide open to anyone who manages to intercept them, and that’s incredibly easy to do.
Truth be told, there are LOTS of folks out there who can, and do intercept SMS text messages, and as the article I linked to above explains, it isn’t limited just to law enforcement. [Read more…]
iPhone users have been complaining for years that the Facebook app drains their phone’s battery much faster than it should.
Well, after denying it for ages, Facebook has finally acknowledged that there could well be a problem and they have pledged to fix it “soon”.
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Thursday, April 28, 2022
• Q&A: How do I disable GPS tracking on my iPhone?
• How to disable the ‘Autocorrect’ feature in Windows 11
• An easy way to fool burglars into thinking you’re at home
• Video biography of Jana Jae, “The girl with the magic blue fiddle”