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Have you ever tried to take a picture while standing in a crowd only to come away with nothing but a photo of the back of someone’s head?
Have you ever tried to take picture from a bridge or ledge only to discover that you couldn’t get your camera out far enough from the edge to photograph your intended target?
If either of these situations apply to you, I have a simple solution for you…
Question from Vicki: Hi, Rick. I have a question re: Facebook Reporting.
I was wondering if you could clear up a big disagreement between two of my friends?
One of them believes if your account is reported by another user Facebook tell you who reported you. The other one disagrees.
Personally, I don’t believe they will because I’ve reported lots of people and no one has ever complained to me about it.
Can you clear this up once and for all?
Question from Janelle: I know there probably isn’t a way to do what I’m asking, but I thought I’d ask anyway.
I have to keep my phone silenced when I’m at work, but my dad is very seriously ill and I need to be able to get messages from my mom in case something happens with him.
I really need for my phone to ring if she calls so I can leave the room and call her back. Is there any way that I can let my mom call me even when I have my iPhone set to “Do Not Disturb”?
Question from Susan: I hadn’t been on LinkedIn for a while so I logged on yesterday to see what I had missed.
As soon as I logged in a video started playing automatically and the sound was so loud it actually startled me. I encountered several other auto-play videos too, and I absolutely detest them.
Can you tell me how to disable auto-playing videos on my LinkedIn account? [Read more…]
If you’ve ever used a Pro or Enterprise edition of Microsoft Windows you probably know those editions come with a handy tool called the Group Policy Editor, or GPedit for short.
In a nutshell, the Group Policy Editor allows you to make hundreds of advanced tweaks to a PC’s Windows installation that aren’t available via the Control Panel or Settings app.
The thing is, GPedit isn’t available in the Home version of Windows, just the Pro and Enterprise versions.
This short video shows how to add a fantastic open-source group policy editor tool to ANY version of Windows (and explains why you might want to): [Read more…]