Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Do you use Facebook on your phone or tablet?
If so, chances are you use the Facebook app instead of your device’s mobile web browser.
I used to use the app myself, but I eventually ditched it out of frustration.
Truth be told, there are several disadvantages of using the app instead of loading Facebook directly in a browser: [Read more…]
If you’re like me you love installing free software and trying it out.
And why not? After all, it’s free!
That means if you don’t like a program you’ve downloaded you can simply uninstall it and you won’t be out as much a cent!
But there’s a problem with installing many free programs and apps: They tend to install a bunch of junkware along with them if you aren’t careful.
You’ve actually witnessed this first-hand if you’ve ever installed a free program and ended up with a new toolbar on your browser or your PC started spawning pop-ups right and left.
Why do many freeware programs come bundled with extra junk? In a word, the answer is money…
Question from Ellen: I’ve been following your blog for a while now, Rick.
It seems like you write about a new Facebook scam or hoax at least a couple of times a week.
I always forward them to my sister to make sure she sees them, but the other night she asked me to stop.
She said there can’t really be that many scams on Facebook because they keep them cleaned up.
I got to thinking about it and it does seem like there are an awful lot of them. Are you sure they’re all real?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Leigh: Hi Rick. I’m hoping you can help me figure out why I can’t get Facebook or Pinterest to load while I’m at work.
I use the same laptop at home and everything works fine there.
But when I’m at work I can’t get either Facebook or Pinterest to work in any web browser.
Everything else loads just fine but when I try to load either of those websites I get an error saying the page failed to load and it might be offline.
I know they’re online though because I can sneak to the bathroom and load them on my phone.
This started happening over a week ago and it’s still doing it now. Can you help me fix it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Do you have a blog or other type of website that you’ve registered a domain name for?
If so, you need to know about a scam targeting domain owners that’s making the rounds yet again.
As you know, when you registered your site’s domain name you were required to supply your postal mailing address and email address as part of the registration process.
Both of those addresses are part of the official registration info that can be publicly accessed by anyone on the Internet by running a simple “Whois” query on your domain name.
Well, scammers are “scraping” the postal addresses and/or email addresses from the “Whois” info for every domain they can find and sending the domain owners realistic-looking, but scam invoices for renewing the domain.
There are several clues that can help you identify most paper domain renewal notices as nothing more than scams: [Read more…]
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