Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Wednesday, April 12, 2023
• How (and when) to boot your Mac into Safe Mode
• Q&A: How can I make my PC’s text cursor easier to see?
• How to recover photos and other files you deleted by accident
• Video: “Orange Blossom Special” (one of my favorite versions ever)
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
In Windows 7 (and earlier versions) we could easily boot our computers into Safe Mode by repeatedly pressing the F8 key when Windows first started loading.
Starting with Windows 8, Microsoft disabled that option in order to help speed up the boot process. Personally, I have never been very fond of that change.
If you miss being able to press F8 to boot into Safe Mode on your Windows 10/11 machine, you can easily enable it with a simple command line entry. [Read more…]
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Wednesday, August 3, 2022
• Q&A: Can I hide my email address on LinkedIn?
• How (and when) to boot your Mac into Safe Mode
• How to unblock someone you’ve blocked on Facebook
• Did you know volcanoes can produce their own lightning bolts?
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Monday, June 20, 2022
• Just for fun: Remember Pac-Man? You can play it right now.
• How (and when) to boot your Android device into ‘Safe Mode’
• 11 ways to fool burglars into thinking you’re always at home
• Did you know ‘TV Dinners’ were invented to fix a colossal mistake?
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Tuesday, May 17, 2022
• How to install iPhone and iPad Apps on your (newer) Mac
• How (and when) to boot Windows 10 and 11 into Safe Mode
• Q&A: How can I make my Desktop icons bigger?
• Time is both precious and fleeting. Use it wisely.