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Many web services allow their users to log in to their accounts by using their Facebook credentials, making it easy to log in to multiple services with a single login.
I don’t really recommend taking advantage of that capability, for several reasons, but lots of folks do it nonetheless.
The popular Skype Internet communications service has allowed users to log in via Facebook for several years, but come January 2018 that’ll no longer be the case. [Read more…]
As you probably know by now, Like and Share Farming is a popular method used by scammers to quickly build successful Facebook pages that they can use to scam other Facebook users.
In a nutshell, the scammer uses innocent-looking (and often heart-tugging) posts to attract thousands of “Likes” and “Shares” to a new page to make it “popular” among the Facebook community.
Well, there’s a rather insidious form of “Like and Share Farming” taking place right now, and it’s targeting Christians.
These posts are simply another variation of the “Feel Good Posts” that I have written about in the past.
The current scam typically works something like this… [Read more…]
As you probably know, Microsoft allowed folks using Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to upgrade to Windows 10 for free during the first year after it was released.
That blanket free upgrade offer ended on July 29, 2016, but Microsoft decided to allow users with a disability that requires them to use some form of assistive technology to keep receiving the free upgrades even after the July 29 cut-off date.
Well, that special offer is about expire very soon, and most people are unaware that it’s about to end. [Read more…]
As you probably know, Facebook is constantly making changes to both their website and their policies.
Some of those changes are good, and some of them are bad (at least from the user’s point of view).
But every now and then they come up with one that leaves me not quite knowing what to think about it. A perfect case-in-point is a new anti-revenge porn initiative they’re currently testing. [Read more…]
A while back I told you about Manuals Online, a vast online library of user manuals for most any kind of product you can think of.
If you own it, Manuals Online probably has a digital copy of its user manual on their website for you to download at no cost.
Well, today I’m going to tell you about another great source for free user manuals, but this one offers manuals exclusively for tech products. [Read more…]