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Monthly Tech Giveaway – February 2024

Posted on January 31, 2024

Note: The links on this page are affiliate links.

February’s winner will receive this super-compact, but powerful Beelink Mini PC.

This little gem is about the size of an extra wide brick but it has all the power and features of a full-size mid-grade desktop PC.

All subscribers to the Standard edition of my Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter have an equal chance to win.

Premium subscribers have two chances to win (their email addresses are added to the “pot” twice).

Not a subscriber? Just enter your email address in the form on this page. Once subscribed you’ll be eligible to win each month’s drawing – starting with this month!

The drawing for this Beelink Mini PC will be held on the evening of February 28 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.

Good luck!

Warning: Be careful about what you share with your Facebook friends

Posted on January 29, 2024

As you probably know, Facebook asks for some pretty sensitive information when someone signs up for an account.

For example, among other things they request our address, phone number and birthdate.

Many folks just go ahead and enter whatever info Facebook asks for without giving it a second thought, and then they make that info viewable by all of their Facebook friends.

Even worse, lots of other folks make their personal info viewable by the general public (i.e. billions of complete strangers)!

That, in my opinion, is a very bad mistake.  [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware these fake “Microsoft Account Update” emails

Posted on January 24, 2024

Phishing scam attempts are distributed in many forms, but most of them arrive in our email Inboxes in the form of fraudulent emails.

The scammers are getting better at their evil craft by the day and it’s pretty hard to tell some of the fake emails from real ones.

Luckily, that isn’t the case with this latest round of phishing emails.

Here’s a screenshot one such email that landed in my Inbox this morning:  [Read more…]

How to check your smartphone’s memory usage

Posted on January 24, 2024

Even premium smartphones have their limitations. As soon as the memory and space on the smartphone runs out, it will begin appear unstable, start to lag, or even freeze up or turn off.

The problem isn’t necessarily the smartphone memory, but you can easily check to see if RAM and/or storage space usage on your smartphone could be causing the issues.  [Read more…]

Q&A: Can I completely disable my laptop’s camera?

Posted on January 22, 2024

Question from Callie:  I bought a new Windows laptop (an Acer) that has a camera built into it.

I don’t ever plan to use the camera for anything and I’d like to completely disable it.

I don’t want to just prevent apps from accessing the camera. I want to disable it completely.

Is it possible to do that? If it is, can you tell me how to do it? [Read more…]

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