Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Claire: I recently lost the iPhone I’d had for several years so I bought a new one to replace it.
That’s not really a bad thing because I’d been looking for an excuse to buy a new one (smile).
The thing is I still have the backup from the old iPhone stored in my iCloud account. How can I get rid of it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Kenny: I love your site man. Too cool!
I hope you can help me with a Gmail question.
I have over 7000 messages in my Gmail Inbox and about as many in my “Sent Mail” folder.
I’d like to wipe out all those old messages and start fresh, but it would take forever to go through there and delete them a page at a time.
My question is do you know of a way to delete all of my Gmail messages at once? [Read more…]
There are many ways to convert HTML files to PDF files, and some of them are free while others cost a small fortune.
If you’re a regular reader of this site you know that I’m all about free, so as you can guess my preferred HTML to PDF Converter is indeed a freebie. It’s called ExpertPDF.
While some of the commercial solutions available come with tons of extra useful features, this one is extremely easy to use and it does an excellent job at creating basic PDF files. [Read more…]
If you’re a Windows user you probably know you can press either the Print Screen key or the PrtScn key (whichever spelling your keyboard uses) to immediately capture the contents of the entire screen as a screenshot.
And you might also know that you can press Alt+Print Screen to take a screenshot of just the currently active window.
But what if you want to manually select a specific portion of the screen to capture for a screenshot? [Read more…]
Question from Delores: Hi Rick. I hope you can answer a question for me about Facebook.
Is there any way to find out if a person I sent a friend request to has received it?
I’ve sent multiple friend requests to someone I used to work with, but she has never accepted me as a friend on Facebook.
I’d just like to know if she’s receiving my friend requests. Can you tell me how to check? [Read more…]