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Question from Oliver: I have a question about WordPress, Rick.
How long do you recommend that we wait before installing updates to WordPress and our themes and plugins?
I’ve seen different people make different recommendations.
Some say to install the updates ASAP right after they are released. Others say to wait a week or two to make sure there aren’t any bugs that could crash the blog.
What’s your opinion on this? [Read more…]
As you well know, Facebook makes it easy to keep in touch with your friends, and even make some new ones.
Unfortunately, every now and then one of your Facebook friends will do something or say something that upsets you.
When that happens you’ll have four choices you can make: [Read more…]
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A while back I wrote a post explaining how hackers are using rogue apps and other forms of malware to spy on folks via their computers’ webcams.
That post also explains how to prevent it from happening.
As it turns out, some miscreants have been spying on us via our machines’ microphones as well. And in some ways that’s just as bad as having them spy on us via webcam. [Read more…]
Question from Stacey: Hi, Rick. I created a document in WordPad and now I want to delete it.
The problem is I can’t find any way to delete a document in WordPad.
I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t find a “Delete” button. Can you tell me how to do it? [Read more…]
Question from Andy: I’ve been using Twitter for several months and I’ve become pretty active on there. I usually post at least a dozen tweets every day.
The problem I have is lots of spammers have started replying to my tweets with spam offers of all types.
Some days there are so many spam replies that it’s hard to wade through them to read the real replies.
Is there any way to block the spammers from replying to my tweets? [Read more…]