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Rick’s Daily Pick: Gesobyte Amplified HD Digital TV Antenna

Posted on September 17, 2021

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My “Pick” for the day is this economical, but outstanding Gesobyte Amplified HD Digital TV Antenna.

Have you been thinking about dropping your sky-high cable or satellite TV service and switching to streaming, but you’re hesitant because you want to keep getting your local over-the-air channels too?

If so, here’s the solution to that dilemma!

This little jewel has a 200 mile range, and that should be more than adequate for picking up all of your favorite local channels (an in HD to boot).

Click here to read more about the Gesobyte Amplified HD Digital TV Antenna at Amazon.

Warning: You need to update your iPhone and iPad right now

Posted on September 14, 2021

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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.

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How to make sure your Amazon purchases are always awesome

Posted on September 12, 2021

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If you do a lot of shopping online, you no doubt order a “dud” every now and then.

After all, marketers literally make their livings designing websites, ads and product descriptions that make every item they sell appear to be the best product ever built.

Well, if you shop on Amazon, there’s a very easy way to ensure that virtually all of your purchases are great ones…

The secret to this magic is always checking the Amazon Best Sellers lists. [Read more…]

What to do if you accidentally visit a malicious website

Posted on September 11, 2021

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There are billions of websites on the Internet, and unfortunately a great number of them are malicious in some way or another.

If you happen to load a malicious web page into your web browser, bad things can happen in a hurry due to malware and other nasties being downloading onto your computer.

Luckily, it’s possible to avoid landing on a dangerous site by simply being careful about the links you click, but there’s always a chance that it will still happen some day regardless of how careful you are.

Some malicious web pages don’t offer any clues as to their devious nature, but many of them do. Here are a few of the clues to look out for: [Read more…]