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Question from Gail: I hope you’ll be able to answer a question for me, Rick.
I have a fairly active Twitter account for my business. I’ve had it for 3 years and it has over 11,000 followers and right at 18,600 tweets.
What I need to know is will changing my username cause me to lose my followers and tweets? [Read more…]
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Every now and then I’ll receive a message asking me “Why do you recommend that folks buy their tech gear from Amazon?”
And that’s a great question, because I do recommend them a LOT.
Well, there are actually several reasons why I love steering folks to Amazon: [Read more…]
Have you ever watched an airliner fly over your house and wonder where it came from and where it was headed?
Or perhaps you’ve waited in an airport terminal on pins and needles for what seemed like an eternity because the flight your loved one was on was long overdue?
Well, now you can visit an amazing website called FlightRadar24 and monitor many passenger flights in real time as you literally watch the planes “fly” across the map on their way to their destinations!
Monitoring a particular flight is easy. Just follow the steps below: [Read more…]
As you probably know, several major retailers have recently had their computers hacked and their customers’ personal and financial data stolen, leaving hundreds of thousands of people nationwide worried about having their identities stolen.
In an effort to prevent this from happening to their customers, many banks have begun offering virtual credit cards that are tied to a real credit card account.
The details vary from bank to bank, but all virtual credit cards work pretty much the same way… [Read more…]
Were you a Facebook user residing in the United States between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022?
If so, Facebook probably owes you some cash. And no, today isn’t April 1, and this isn’t a joke.