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If you’re thinking about spending a few bucks to upgrade your PC you’re probably wondering what to upgrade in order to get the most bang for the buck.
In most cases, except for adding a solid state drive, adding more RAM will do more to speed up your computer than any other upgrade you can make. [Read more…]
A while back I wrote a post discussing several things you can do to protect your Facebook account from hackers.
That post explains how hackers will try to use phishing attempts and various social engineering techniques to trick you into handing over your Facebook password or the personal info they can use to guess it. [Read more…]
If you use LinkedIn you’re probably used to seeing lots of available job notifications showing up in your feed.
While some folks are actively looking for a new job and others are always willing to consider job offers that might align with their career goals, plenty of other LinkedIn users have no interest in seeing job openings in their feed at all.
Personally, I fall into the “I’d rather not see the job openings in my feed” camp. If you feel that way too you can easily block those job opening notifications with a simple settings change. [Read more…]
Question from Carol: Rick, I’m really in a bind and I’m hoping you can help me.
My son was messing around in the settings in Firefox and he deleted my browser history, including the cookies that kept me logged into my most important accounts.
As you can probably guess, now I can’t log in to my bank account or pretty much anything else because I’ve forgotten the passwords.
Do you know if there’s a way to “unclear” the browser history in Firefox?
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Question from Mariana: I just got my first smartphone and I love how I can use it as a camera!
I love taking pictures with my phone but when I go to look at them I sometimes need to rotate it to see a particular picture right-side up.
The problem is when I rotate my phone the pictures rotate too so I’m always looking at them from the same (wrong) angle. The orientation of the picture doesn’t change and I can never look at it the right way without getting a crick in my neck.
How can I prevent a picture from rotating when I rotate my phone?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]