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Question from Mona: My 20 year old son came in to visit me for the weekend and he borrowed my computer while he was here.
After he left I noticed that the default search engine in my Chrome browser had been changed from Google to Bing.
I really prefer Google so I’d appreciate it a bunch if you can tell me how to switch it back. What do I need to do? [Read more…]
If you’ve been on Facebook for a while you probably have a friend or two whose posts tend to really get on your nerves.
Perhaps they sometimes use language that’s a little too salty for your taste or they tend to post a hundred status updates a day filled with meaningless drivel that you could not care less about.
The list of potential annoyances goes on and on.
New U.S. and state government programs aimed at expanding rural broadband Internet access have Internet Service Providers (ISPs) expanding into new areas, resulting in new high speed Internet options for rural consumers.
Of course that’s a good thing if you happen to live in an area where your only viable Internet options are satellite (and if you’re lucky, DSL).
After all, it’s always good when consumers are provided with real choices for higher quality service at a better price.
Unfortunately, as always happens in situations like this, these expanding Internet service options are being exploited by scammers looking to make a fast buck off as many innocent victims as they possibly can. [Read more…]
Have you ever composed an email message and wished you could have it be delivered to the recipient’s inbox at some specific future date and time?
For example, maybe you’d like to write someone a birthday greeting ahead of time to make sure you don’t forget it.
That’s all well and good, but what if you forget to log back into your email account and send the message when that person’s birthday actually arrives?
Luckily, Gmail allows you to schedule your emails to be delivered at any specific future date and time of your choosing. [Read more…]
Most folks have their favorite websites/pages bookmarked on their browser’s “Favorites” bar.
That makes it easy to quickly launch once of those sites with a single click without having to go through the hassle of using Google or typing the site’s URL into the address bar every time.
There are times when it helps to launch a bookmarked page in a new browser tab to prevent it from replacing the page that’s already displayed in the browser.