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Question from Mariana: I installed an app on my iPhone but I can’t find it.
I thought new apps always went on the Home screen, but this one didn’t.
How can I find it so I can add it to my Home screen? [Read more…]
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Question from Janet: A while back my sister wanted to buy a game for my daughter to play on her tablet so I let her enter my credit card info into Google Play and buy it.
But now with all the hacking that’s been going on lately I’m really nervous about having my credit card info online.
Can you please tell me how to remove my card number from the Google Play app? [Read more…]
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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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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…]
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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…]