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Q&A: How can I uninstall Firefox from my computer?

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Question from Perry S.:  I have an older Dell desktop PC that I updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

I really like this computer and I use it every day to check my email and other various tasks.

I got a low disk space warning the other day so I ran Disk Cleanup and then tried to uninstall several programs that I never use.

Everything uninstalled just fine until I got to Firefox. The Windows Uninstaller tool won’t remove it, and neither will Revo Uninstaller.

Do you know of a way to remove Firefox from this machine? Perhaps a manual method that I could try?

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Q&A: I accidentally formatted my USB hard drive. Can I recover my pictures from it?

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Question from Marie N.:  I have an urgent question and I really hope you’ll have an answer for me.

I accidentally formatted the external USB hard drive that I use to store all of my scanned family photos with my Mac.

I meant to format the drive I use to store my Mac backups but I accidentally plugged in the wrong drive!

I hope you can help me recover my pics from it?

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Review: WD My Book 6TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive with Backup

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Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.

Western Digital has been making some of the world’s best hard drives for decades, and their current My Book line of external USB hard drives are simply outstanding.

External hard drives are perfect for backing up large amounts of data, and the WD My Book 6TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive with Backup will store a ton of it.

6TB of storage is more than enough space to hold all of the average user’s data with plenty of room to spare.

Photos, music, video…you can keep it all safe and secure with this excellent drive and its included backup software. [Read more…]

How to make Google and Facebook display a custom snippet for your blog posts

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Have you ever noticed how Facebook and Google pull in the first few lines of text from your blog posts and use that text as the “snippets” they display in the search results?

That’s not always a problem, but it can be a big one if the snippet contains text that doesn’t accurately describe the content of the post.

For example, if you always begin your blog posts with generic content such as an author bio, the first few lines of that bio will be displayed as the snippet in the Google search results and on Facebook for every post you write.

That means every post you publish will have the same snippet, and that snippet won’t do anything to accurately describe the content of the post and entice the reader to click the link and read the post on your blog.

Luckily, there’s an easy way to get both Facebook and Google to display your own custom snippet for every post you write on your WordPress blog.  [Read more…]

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