Rick's Daily Tips

How to make your Instagram messages disappear after they’ve been read

Posted on November 14, 2022

If you’ve ever used SnapChat you’re probably familiar with how received messages simply disappear after they have been read.

Well, now Instagram’s Chat tool has a similar feature called ‘Vanish Mode’.

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How to quickly lock down ALL of Windows 10’s privacy settings

Posted on November 9, 2022

As you probably know by now, Windows 10 is a nightmare when it comes to privacy.

Truth be told, if you accept all of Windows 10’s default privacy settings you won’t have much privacy at all while you’re using your PC.

There are almost two dozen important privacy settings that need to be changed in order to lock down your privacy as much as possible, but unfortunately they’re scattered all over the place throughout your Windows 10 installation. [Read more…]

Q&A: Will my coworkers be able to tell I’m watching videos?

Posted on November 6, 2022

Question from Kerry: My company has about 30 employees working together in one large open room.

We each have mini-offices set up in separate cubicles.

Although there’s very little privacy on our floor I have a corner cubicle that gives me a lot more privacy than my coworkers.

I’m pretty fast at my work so I always get done a couple of hours before everyone else.

That means I have a couple of hours to kill every day so I recently started watching YouTube videos to pass the time. [Read more…]

Q&A: Why is my ‘fast’ laptop running so slow?

Posted on November 2, 2022

Question from Judy: A while back I decided that I needed a new laptop and since it was to be used for work I wanted one that was pretty fast.

Based upon the recommendation of a friend I ended up buying an almost new refurbished Dell with an Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 1GB hard drive and Windows 10.

For a while the new laptop was lightning fast, but then it slowed down to a crawl. And it happened virtually overnight. [Read more…]

Q&A: Why do USB-C hubs only have two USB-C ports?

Posted on November 1, 2022

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Question from Ronnie: I have a MacBook Air that has only two USB-C ports on it, but I have four USB-C devices that I need to connect to it.

I’m looking for a USB-C hub with at least three USB-C ports on it but I can’t find one.

They all have either one or two USB-C ports and about a dozen or so other ports that I don’t need.

My question is why don’t they make USB-C hubs that have more than two USB-C ports on them? [Read more…]