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Question from Brenda: I heard a couple of kids talking about overclocking their computers to make them run faster.
What exactly do they mean by overclocking? And it that something that I can do to speed up my HP laptop?
It’s a pretty slow machine and I’d love to overclock it if you think it’s would really help.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
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Well, the hackers and scammers of the world are once again targeting unsuspecting Apple customers.
This latest Apple-related scam is a variation of this recurring scam in which the scammers call you from out of the blue and tell you your machine has been infected with a virus or is experiencing some other serious problem that needs to be taken care of right away.
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The amount of information available on the Internet with just a few clicks of the mouse boggles the mind.
If all that info was published in a single book it would probably be thick enough to reach all the way to the moon.
That’s why Google and other Internet search engines are so important for helping us find the info we need in a timely manner.
But a single web page can hold a lot of information as well, and if you need to find something on a large, congested page it can be like finding a needle in a haystack. [Read more…]
Substack…
By now you probably know that Facebook accounts are getting cloned by scammers right and left these days.
Luckily, having a scammer clone your account isn’t as bad as having someone hack into it, but it’s still bad – especially for the people on your friends list.
In case you’re unfamiliar with account cloning, it’s where a scammer creates a completely new Facebook account in your name and populates it with photos and personal information they’ve copied from your real account.
They then use the new fake account to send friend requests to all the people on your real account’s friends list. [Read more…]
Just like desktop and laptop computers, all smartphones and tablets have a very basic clipboard that allows you to “copy” and “paste” text from one app to another.
Unfortunately, that’s about all you can do with it. Even worse, the contents of the clipboard are overwritten every time you “copy” something else.
The good news is you can download a handy third-party clipboard app that will give your phone a fully-functional clipboard. [Read more…]