Rick's Daily Tips

Heads-up: Your MacBook Pro might qualify for a free battery replacement.

Posted on February 16, 2021

Do you own a 2016 or 2017 MacBook Pro that won’t charge the battery past 1%?

If so, your machine just might qualify for a free replacement battery from Apple.

Posted on February 15, 2021

Question from Kenny: About six months ago I bought a Toshiba laptop with Windows 10 on it.

Everything worked great until three days ago when Chrome started failing to load certain websites.

Some sites load normally, but then other sites get redirected to completely different sites when I click on their links.

Still other sites won’t load at all. The only thing I get is a white error screen.

I tried clearing the browser history and when that failed to fix it I even removed Chrome and reinstalled it. But the problem is still there.

Can you tell me what’s wrong and how to fix it?

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Posted on February 14, 2021

Question from Delaney G.: Hi Rick. I want you to know that I just found your site and literally spent two hours reading your tips.

I really like the way you explain things in simple terms that anyone can understand. Fascinating stuff for a non-techie like me!

I’d like to ask you a question if you don’t mind.

I read the article where you explained why iPhones don’t need to have an antivirus app running on them.

My family has three iPads that we use every single day. Does the same thing apply to them too?

In other words can we safely skip installing an antivirus app on our iPads?

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Posted on February 12, 2021

Question from Nina P.: Hi Rick. First, I want to thank you for sharing all the beautiful pictures with us every morning.

They really start my day off on a positive note!

Now, a question. When I go through your page and click on the older pictures it always shows the last one you posted.

Why is that? I love seeing the old photos too!

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Posted on February 11, 2021

Question from Beverly: My 7 year old laptop stopped working last year and I replaced it with a new one that has Windows 10 on it.

When I was setting up the new laptop it asked me to create a password for logging into Windows.

Then it also asked me to create a PIN.

I’ve been logging in with the PIN ever since but I recently read an article that said passwords are more secure than PINs.

I’ve been logging in with my password since then but the log-in screen still gives the option to use the PIN when I click the “Sign-in Options” link.

If I can choose to enter the PIN instead of the password a computer thief would be able to as well, right?

My questions is, how do I completely remove the PIN from my laptop?

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