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The world of finance is always in a state of constant movement and innovation, which means that people are always thinking of ways to make things more convenient.
One such innovation is P2P lending software and its solutions according to LenderKit. It has become increasingly popular with doubled market value in the last decade or so. This, as you can imagine, has brought forth a ton of questions. [Read more…]
If you’ve been on Facebook for a while you’ve probably seen a wide variety of quiz-style posts pop up in your Newsfeed.
There are many variations of these posts, but the most common ones are of the “What is your spirit animal?” or “Which celebrity do you look like?” type posts.
These posts can seem like they’re nothing more than just a bit of innocent fun, but the truth is they can be quite dangerous. [Read more…]
By now you probably know that adding a solid state drive (SSD) to most any computer will make it run a lot faster.
But did you know SSDs are now available as external USB drives?
An external USB 3.1 SSD basically offers the convenience of a USB flash drive along with the speed and storage capacity of an internal solid state drive!
I recently had the opportunity to check out the Samsung T5 Portable 2TB USB 3.1 SSD, and I immediately fell in love with it! [Read more…]
Question from Eddie: Hi Rick. I hope you can help me with an odd situation I’m in.
I opened an online account several years ago (I’d rather not say which company) and I let Firefox store the password.
Ever since then I’ve always logged into that account using the stored password.
I’m getting ready to buy a new computer so I won’t be able to use the stored password to log into that site anymore.
The problem is I have forgotten the password. I’ve tried resetting it but it asks for my email address and none of the ones I can think of trying will work.
I know the password is still stored in Firefox because it comes up (covered with asterisks) and I can log in with it. Is there any way to retrieve that password from the browser?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
It seems that fraudsters are all over the Internet these days, and many of them spam us with messages that turn up in our email inboxes on a daily basis.
And they’re pretty good at producing some rather legitimate-looking, and fairly convincing messages too.
If you’ve been using the Internet for any length of time, you’ve no doubt seen a bunch of them.