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Question from Lisa: My email account is receiving so much SPAM that I’m ready to ditch it and set up a new one.
Is there a trick for setting up an email address so that it won’t end up on some spammer’s email list?
Would something like putting numbers in the middle or along the lines of [email protected] work? [Read more…]
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Friday, July 5, 2024
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As you probably know, the Internet is home to a lot of scammy and fraudulent websites.
Truth be told, the percentage of “bad” sites is actually fairly low compared to the number of legitimate sites.
The problem is there are literally billions of websites on the Internet, and that means even though just a small percentage of them are “bad”, that percentage still amounts to a LOT of scam/fraudulent websites.
Comcast, Time Warner and other cable Internet providers periodically raise the guaranteed download and upload speeds for their various Internet service tiers in order to remain competitive in the marketplace.
And when they do, they usually email their customers to let them know they’ve received a bump in their connection speeds.
When necessary, they’ll also let the customers know that they’ll need to order a new updated modem in order to actually take advantage of the faster data transmission speeds provided by their plan.
The problem is, many customers either don’t receive the notification emails about the needed modem upgrades or the emails get lost in their junk folder. [Read more…]
Have you ever been reading an article or blog post and seen a term (or person) mentioned that you wanted to get more information about?
If so you probably opened a new browser tab, launched your favorite search engine in that tab and then copied the term and pasted it into the search box.
That certainly works, and it works extremely well.
But did know there there’s an easy way to streamline the process and make it a lot faster?