Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Question from Kim W.: I have a WordPress blog and lots of people are leaving comments on my posts that contain links.
How can I prevent the URLs in those comments from automatically becoming active links?
I really don’t want hackers leaving links to malicious websites via comments on my blog posts!
Thanks for your help.
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Have you ever done a Google search on a topic only to discover that most of the search results consisted of pages that were created years ago?
That isn’t always a problem when searching for “facts” because many facts just don’t change over time.
For example, if you type largest planet in our solar system into Google, the answer you receive should be Jupiter whether the article you click on was written in 1998 or 2020. After all, Jupiter hasn’t gotten smaller and the other planets haven’t grown in a very long time.
On the other hand, if you search for latest medical research some of the pages returned by Google could possibly be woefully out of date.
Luckily, there’s an easy way to ensure that your Google search results are at least fairly current. [Read more…]
Question from Brittney P.: I have a question that I’ve been wanting the answer to for a long time and nobody seems to know the answer. Now that I’ve found this site I’ll ask you.
I’ve noticed that the drive letters in computers always start with “C” and go up from there?
There doesn’t seem to be an “A” drive or a “B” drive. Can you tell me why that is?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
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Question from Kevin: I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T520 laptop that I’d like to hook up to a spare 40 inch flat panel TV that I’m not using so I can watch Netflix on a larger screen.
The problem is the Thinkpad T520 does’t have an HDMI port and the TV doesn’t have a VGA connector.
Is there any way to add an HDMI port to this laptop so I can connect my TV to it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Facebook accounts are preferred targets of hackers and scammers these days, and it’s easy to see why.
With well over two billion users worldwide, the Facebook community at large offers hackers an enormous opportunity for scamming their way to ill-gotten gains and/or the twisted satisfaction that some receive from wreaking havoc on a massive scale.
It isn’t Facebook’s fault, really. After all, they provide all the technical tools we need in order to keep our accounts safe from hacking attacks.
But that being said, there are a few privacy and security settings that need to be tweaked a bit in order to make your account as safe as it can possibly be. [Read more…]
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