Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Caroline: Every time I write a new blog post I paste the link to it in a Facebook status update.
The problem I’m having is sometimes Facebook won’t display the photo from the blog post. All it will display is the title and a short snippet of the text.
Is there something I’m doing wrong? Am I missing a step? [Read more…]
This year’s Christmas shopping season in now in full swing, and you know what that means…
Yep, the scammers are out in force on Facebook trying their best to scam innocent users out of their hard-earned money.
Question from Paul: I recently discovered that the C: drive in my Windows 10 computer is almost full so I installed a second hard drive.
Everything works fine but when I create a new document Windows still tries to save it to the C: drive. And since that drive is full it can’t save it.
I have to manually choose the E: drive (the new hard drive) every time I try to save a new document.
How can I change it so Windows will automatically store the new files I create on the E: drive instead of the C: drive? [Read more…]
Question from Myron: I read this blog post about installing Linux on an older Windows PC and found it quite intriguing.
The thing is, I don’t have a Windows PC. I have an older MacBook that can no longer be updated to the latest versions of macOS.
Your post about installing Linux didn’t mention anything about installing it on a Mac. Is that possible? [Read more…]
Question from Rheta: For some reason Microsoft Defender quarantined one of my important work files on my Windows 11 laptop, apparently thinking it’s a virus (it isn’t).
I really need to get that file back. Can you tell me how to “unquarantine” it? [Read more…]