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Reminder: Today is Amazon Prime Day (your chance to save big!)

Posted on June 21, 2021

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Just in case you missed the news, today is Amazon Prime Day.

If you’re unfamiliar with Prime Day, it’s basically just a short two-day period of time when Amazon Prime members can get huge discounts that aren’t available to non-Prime customers on thousands of popular items.

Another way to think of Prime Day is sort of like an early preview of Black Friday.

Anyway, if you’ve been planning to make a major purchase or simply stock up on a few things you use on a regular basis, today is the perfect time to do it if you have a Prime membership.

If you aren’t a Prime member you can sign up right here and take advantage of these special Prime Day savings plus get all the other awesome benefits that Prime members enjoy!

In case you’re wondering, you don’t have to pay for a full year’s Prime membership to take advantage of the awesome Prime Day savings.

You can simply sign up for the monthly plan instead and then cancel your membership at any time.

Bottom line: Millions of Amazon customers stampede to Amazon.com every year on Prime Day to snag some great bargains.

Today is that day so be sure not to miss out!


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How to make sure you’ll never get locked out of your Facebook account

Posted on June 17, 2021

I frequently receive frantic messages from Facebook users asking how they can regain access to their accounts when they’re unable to reset their passwords.

Unfortunately, in most of those cases I’m unable to help those folks reset their passwords and get back into their accounts.

That means they have no choice but to abandon their accounts and open new ones.

People find themselves in this situation because Facebook has determined that it’s better to have some people locked out of their accounts forever than to make it easy for hackers to reset the passwords of unsuspecting users.

It always bothers me to have to tell someone I won’t be able to help them get back into their Facebook account, but unfortunately that’s just the reality we are faced with for the time being.

Now all of the above being said, there are steps you can take right now to ensure that you’ll be able to reset your Facebook password if you ever forget it or if a hacker breaks into your account and changes the password.

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Q&A: I lost my phone. Can I remotely sign out of Gmail using a different device?

Posted on June 17, 2021

Question from Carrie:  I went to Costco this morning and when I got home my phone wasn’t in my purse.

I checked both my car and my apartment from one end to other and it just isn’t here.

Then I called Costco to see if anyone had found it and turned it in at the Service Desk, but they hadn’t.

I didn’t go anywhere else, just to Costco so that has to be where I lost it.

I’m not too concerned about the phone itself. It’s an older Straight Talk phone that I was planning to replace soon anyway.

The thing that worries me is my Gmail was open (I keep it that way, stupid me). I have a lot of sensitive info and photos in my emails that I really don’t want anyone else to see.

Is there a way to use my computer to remotely sign out of Gmail on the lost phone?

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How to disable Windows 10’s horrible ‘Weather Widget’

Posted on June 16, 2021

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Do you use a Windows 10 PC?

If so, take a look at the “Notifications” area in the lower-right corner of the screen…

See that little “Temperature” display?

That’s the new “Weather” (aka “News & Interests”) widget that Microsoft has added to Windows 10.

Just for fun, click on the temperature display to open the widget…  [Read more…]

Q&A: If I hide my WiFi network’s name will I still be able to connect to it?

Posted on June 15, 2021

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Question from Jennie:  I overheard a conversation the other day that really interested me, and I want to see what you think about it.

A young man told his friend that hiding the WiFi network name in his router would prevent his neighbors from finding and connecting to the Internet over his network.

I live in an apartment building and I’m pretty sure I have this same problem right now.

I’d like to follow that guy’s advice but I want to make sure I can connect new devices of my own (as well as those of friends) to my WiFi network with the network name hidden. Will I be able to?

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