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Monthly Tech Giveaway – August 2025

Posted on July 31, 2025

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August’s winner will receive this fantastic Aura Carver 10.1 Inch HD WiFi Digital Picture Frame.

Like most people these days, you probably have hundreds, and possibly even thousands of great photos that you’d like to display in your home. With this little gem you’ll probably be able to display ALL of them!

All subscribers to the Standard edition of my Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter have an equal chance to win.

Premium subscribers have two chances to win (their email addresses are added to the “pot” twice).

Not a subscriber? Just enter your email address in the form on this page. Once subscribed you’ll be eligible to win each month’s drawing – starting with this month. Better yet, opt for a Premium subscription for double the chance to win!

The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on August 31 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.

Good luck!

Q&A: Why don’t you charge anything when you help someone?

Posted on July 30, 2025

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Question from Brenda: I think it’s wonderful that you take the time to provide all this great information and help people with their problems.

I’ve noticed that you never ask anyone for money or request any type of payment for helping people and answering their tech questions on your blog.

I believe you really should because your time is valuable and you deserve to be paid for using it to help all of us. Why do you do all this for free? [Read more…]

How to delete your entire Google search history (and prevent Google from collecting it in the future)

Posted on July 29, 2025

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Did you know that Google keeps a record of everything you have ever searched for via the Google search engine?

Well, they do, and unless you have already deleted your Search history at some point in the past it dates all the way back to the very first search you made on Google!

Truth be told, Google has always provided a way to delete your Search history IF you knew where to look. The thing is, it was always very hard to find.

Luckily, Google has now made it a lot easier to delete your Search history.

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Q&A: Will the RAM in my old laptop work in a new one?

Posted on July 28, 2025

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Question from Mike: I know it’s time to buy a new laptop and I’m looking to save as much money as possible.

The machine I’m replacing is a Dell Inspiron 14 5000 that I bought back in January 2015.

Since the old Dell has 16GB of RAM in it I was wondering if it’s possible to buy a new laptop with just 4GB of RAM and then swap the RAM from the Dell into the new laptop?

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