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Question from Kristin: A Facebook friend got a fake friend request from me and simply deleted it.
Do these fake requests always involve a duplicate account?
I searched my name and only found my legitimate account. How can I find the fake one? [Read more…]
By now you probably know that Adobe Photoshop is the big dog when it comes to photo editing software. It really is the cream of the crop.
You also probably know that Photoshop Elements gives the casual user much of Photoshop’s functionality at a greatly reduced price.
But did you know that you can save even the $100 or so you’d have to cough up for Photoshop Elements and still be able to edit your images using advanced Adobe technology? [Read more…]
Question from Kelly: I’ve always used Google Docs for my writing but I recently bought Microsoft Office because that’s what I’ll be using at my next job.
I’ve been practicing with Word and it seems to be ok, but sometimes it will place a random horizontal line in the document when I type certain characters.
How can I make it stop doing that? [Read more…]
Question from Glenda: I downloaded Autoruns after reading about it here and it keeps showing something called Synaptics.
This has me a little confused.
Is Synaptics a virus? If it is, how do I get rid of it?
Do you have an Amazon Kindle E-reader that runs slow, freezes up or is just weirdly glitchy in some other way?
If so, there are a couple of things you can do to fix the issue.