Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Gene: Rick, I have a desktop computer I hired a guy to build for me about 3 years ago. It has Windows 10 on it.
It has 4 GB of RAM in it right now and I’d really like to max it out to (hopefully) speed things up a bit.
How can I find out how much memory this computer can use since it doesn’t really have a brand/model to look up? [Read more…]
Question from Alison: I heard Office Depot is scamming people when they bring their computers in for service.
Is that true?
If it is I’m gonna be furious because they just fixed my laptop a few weeks ago and it cost me $220. [Read more…]
Update: This one is making the rounds yet again. Beware…
If you’ve been using Facebook for a while you surely know that scams abound on that site.
And as the latest scam proves, the scammers are getting bolder all the time.
And as you will soon see, this one is nothing more than straight-up fraud.
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…]