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Late at night, with your room dimly lit and your eyes half-open, you find yourself scrolling. One more post. One more news story. Suddenly, you realize an hour has passed. You are no longer informed. You are just more anxious.
That’s doomscrolling. A term that might sound dramatic but describes something many of us do daily. It’s the act of endlessly consuming negative news or content online. It doesn’t help your mood. It doesn’t fix the problem. But you do it anyway. [Read more…]
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As you surely know by now, there are numerous crooks, spammers and scammers using Facebook to perpetrate scams and hoaxes on innocent people.
The miscreants use various methods and tools to scam their victims, and one of their favorite tools is fake Facebook profiles.
Fake profiles typically take one of two forms: [Read more…]
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Question from Rhonda: I have a question for you. How can I keep a YouTube video playing in the corner of my computer screen even when I’m working with other programs?
I subscribe to a channel that features inspirational videos and I’d love to be able to watch them while I’m working.
I know this can be done because I’ve seen it, but the person who did it is no longer with the company so I can’t ask them how to do it. [Read more…]
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Do you have a phone? If you do (and who doesn’t these days) it’s a good bet that you receive a robocall every now and then.
Even worse, if you’re one of the unlucky folks whose number has found its way onto an active caller list you probably receive several of these irritating calls per day.
Robocalls are incredibly frustrating because there’s really very little you can do to prevent them from coming in, but you can manage them and prevent them from causing you a bunch of grief.
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Question from Barbara: Hi, Rick. I have a very urgent problem and I need your help, ASAP!
Everything was fine when I went to bed last night, but when I woke up this morning and turned on my laptop to check my email, the laptop couldn’t find my WiFi network.
I had it scan for available networks and it found just one (and it had a really nasty name that I can’t repeat here). [Read more…]