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Question from Pam: I have a question Rick. If I block a friend on Facebook, will Facebook tell her I blocked her? I hope the answer is no.
I know I could unfriend her but then my profile would pop up under “People you may know” on her page and that would tip her off that I had unfriended her.
Since I work with this person, I’d rather not upset her, but some of her posts are very crude and I don’t want them showing up on my page. Can you advise? [Read more…]
Do you have a favorite website that you visit on a regular basis with a browser on your smartphone?
If so, you probably have that site bookmarked in your browser so you can quickly launch it whenever you want to visit it.
But did you know you can actually place an icon for your favorite site(s) right on your phone’s Home screen?
Question from Eileen: I just got my first Windows 11 computer and it looks a lot different that Windows 10.
Most of the changes are ok but I hate how the scrollbars are hidden in some apps until I move my mouse over to the right.
Is there any way to make the scrollbars remain visible all the time in Windows 11? [Read more…]
Question from Amber: I hope you can help me with a Gmail problem.
For several years I’ve been organizing and coordinating all of our annual family reunions, and that includes sending out emails about upcoming reunions to a couple of hundred family members.
To make that task easier to manage and track I created a new label in Gmail a while back just for emails pertaining to the reunions.
Now I’d like to change the name of that label to something that better identifies the emails as being reunion-related.
I have three questions that I hope you’ll answer for me. [Read more…]
You probably know that mobile phones routinely collect and store location data and share that data with apps and third parties.
But did you know your Windows 10/11 PC does it as well?
Just like your smartphone, your Windows PC is constantly determining your current location and storing that location data in a database.