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Question from Cam : I’ve been wondering about the something and I’m hoping you can set me straight.
I always carry my credit cards, my debit card and the key ring with my car keys and key fob on it all in my purse right next to my cell phone.
My question is could the battery or any parts of the cellphone or the electric current in the phone (which I leave turned on) somehow damage the key fob or erase the data on my bank cards? [Read more…]
Like it’s predecessor, Windows 11 has a popular feature called Autocorrect that monitors your typing and makes changes when it determines that you’ve made one or more spelling errors.
That sounds awesome, and most of the time it is. However, Autocorrect doesn’t always do the best job at fixing your typos. [Read more…]
Question from Frank: Rick, I have a computer running Windows 11 and I have a question about it.
I’m 73 years old and have terribly arthritic fingers which makes it extremely difficult for me to “double-click” on things to open them.
I read somewhere that you can change a setting that’ll make Windows open things with a single click, but I can’t find it.
I’ll be much in your debt if you’d be so kind as to tell me how to set it up. Can you tell me how? [Read more…]
If you’ve been using computers for a while you’ve probably experienced the loss of irreplaceable data at some point in the past.
After all, hard drives go belly-up, flash drives become corrupted and unreadable, viruses render computers unbootable and all manner of other disasters strike when we are least expecting them.
That’s why it’s so important to always have a high-quality data recovery tool at your disposal.
I recently had the opportunity to test and evaluate Stellar Data Recovery Professional, one of the most popular and highly-rated data recovery solutions that’s available today. [Read more…]
There’s an old scam that keeps popping up from time to time, and I’m hearing lots of reports that it’s spreading like wildfire at the moment.
A while back I wrote a post explaining that neither Microsoft nor Apple will call you to let you know that your machine has a virus.
And they won’t, so if you get a call like that from out of the blue you should know right off the bat that the call is a scam. Just hang up on them.
But now there’s a quickly spreading variation of that scam that’s costing a lot of folks a lot of money and causing tons of grief to boot.