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Apple’s popular iTunes service has millions of active customers, and that make them a favorite target of scammers.
Well, an old iTunes-related scam that tries to trick you into disclosing your iTunes login information by trying to claim a bogus refund from Apple is making the rounds once again.
The scam works something like this: [Read more…]
A while back I wrote a post explaining why it’s a good idea to take along a power strip when you travel.
But what I forgot to mention is that it’s also a good idea to have a wireless travel router
Have you seen the new ads from Comcast promoting their Xfinity Mobile service?
If you have, you probably think it sounds like a pretty good deal.
Well, that “deal” is about to get a lot worse. [Read more…]
Question from Seth P.: I have a WordPress blog that has several missing posts that I’ve deleted because they contained outdated information that was either incorrect or no longer relevant.
My blog now has lots of requests going to the 404 error page because those posts no longer exist.
I’d like to redirect all of those requests to my blog’s home page instead of displaying the 404 error page. How can I do that?
Ricks’s Answer: [Read more…]
Back in the “Stone Age” of the Internet (i.e. before Facebook came along) Yahoo Messenger and AOL Messenger were used on a daily basis by millions of users to keep in touch with friends and family.
Well, times have changed…
AOL Messenger was shut down last year, leaving only Yahoo Messenger to compete with Facebook’s hugely popular Messenger app.
As of today that competition is officially over because Yahoo has just announced they’ll shutting down the entire Yahoo Messenger platform on July 17, 2018. [Read more…]