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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”
Question from Fran: Rick, I need your help with a very strange problem.
I turned on my computer this morning and saw that somehow my Facebook had gotten switched to some language that I can’t understand.
I can’t figure out how to change it back to English because I can’t read the menus.
Can you help me get my Facebook account back to where it’s using English? [Read more…]
Question from Rita: My granddaughter is in the Air Force and the last time she was in she opened a Snapchat account on my phone so I can chat with her while she’s overseas.
The name she gave me on there is “Grandma”.
That’s fine, but I’ve recently started talking to other people on Snapchat and I’d like to use my real name instead of Grandma.
Can you tell me how to change it? [Read more…]
Question from Naomi: I hate the ‘Stories’ thing that Facebook places at the top of my newsfeed.
Is there any way to remove it or am I just stuck with it? Surely there’s a setting for it but I can’t find it.
If it makes any difference I use Facebook on my Acer Windows 10 laptop. [Read more…]
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Apple has just released an emergency update to iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8 to patch a very serious security flaw.
In a nutshell, this flaw allows NSO Group’s really nasty Pegasus spyware to infect Apple devices that are running one of the affected versions of iOS.