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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Saturday, August 26, 2023
• How to search Google for a person’s social media accounts
• Q&A: Why is Facebook so easy to hack?
• Q&A: Can I convert an older hard drive into a USB drive?
• Change two lives by adopting a shelter pet
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Question from Bruce: Rick, I have an old Windows XP computer and there’s data on its hard drive that I need to keep.
Can I turn that old drive into an external hard drive to retrieve the data, or is it more complicated than that?
Question from Gwendolyn: I write a WordPress blog where I talk about women’s issues and I always update LinkedIn with the URL to every post I write.
I’ve been doing this for over two years and LinkedIn has always displayed a photo from the post along with the title and text snippet, but lately it’s been omitting the photo about half the time.
Is there a setting that I might have inadvertently changed to cause the photo not to be displayed on some updates? Am I doing something wrong? [Read more…]
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If you use an inkjet printer you’re probably well aware of just how expensive it is to replace your empty ink cartridges. It’s absolutely ridiculous how much they cost these days!
With many cartridges selling for upwards of $50 each, it makes sense to try to squeeze every drop of that precious fluid out of them before tossing them into the recycle bin.
What you might not know however is that many “empty” ink cartridges actually still have some ink left in them when the printer tells you they’re empty and ready to be replaced. [Read more…]
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Question from Kevin: I have 3 computers that I’m planning to place in my bedroom and my two sons’ rooms. We’re going to use these computers for just one thing, and that’s for playing games over a private LAN.
After doing some research I went to Best Buy and bought a 5 port switch and three 50ft Ethernet cables to run up into the attic and then down into each of the rooms.
These computers will NOT be connected to a modem, only to each other through the switch. We won’t need (and I don’t want) to have these computers connected to the Internet.
Now, my question – Since there will be no Internet access we won’t be able to update our virus software. Will that be a big problem or do your recommend going wireless and connecting the machines through our router so they’ll have Internet access? [Read more…]