Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
I recently received a heads-up from a friend that Xfinity was now offering 1.2Gbps Internet service in my neck of the woods.
I did a little checking around and discovered they are now offering Gigabit+ download speeds in most of the areas they currently service.
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.
Burglars love targeting houses where it’s pretty obvious that no one’s at home.
After all, there’s less chance of them getting caught when there’s nobody there to catch them.
Are you worried about your home being burglarized when you’re at work, on vacation, or otherwise away from home?
If so, there are several things you can do to make it appear to potential burglars that your home is indeed occupied at all times – and prevent them from breaking in: [Read more…]
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
If you’ve been on Facebook recently you’ve probably seen lots of cool-looking photos that have been altered to look like drawings and other such adaptations.
Unfortunately, this is one of those apps that puts your privacy at serious risk.
First, we’ll start with the bad news…
If you use any of Apple’s services the company wants you to know they take your privacy very seriously.
To prove it, they have updated the Apple website’s Privacy Page with detailed explanations about how they created every Apple service with your privacy in mind. [Read more…]