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Question from Elizabeth: I’m having a problem with my MacBook, Rick. It just started last week.
Every time I shut it down the screen resolution is wrong and the volume is at full blast after I start it up again.
Do you know what’s causing this? Thanks in advance.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
It happens to most everyone sooner or later. You turn on your PC and discover that it won’t boot.
You hear a clunking sound from your hard drive and whisper “Oh, no!!!” after realizing that the drive has gone belly up on you.
All is not lost if you have a current backup that works. You can simply replace the bad drive with a new one and restore everything in short order.
But what if you don’t have a backup? Or what if you have a backup but it has somehow become corrupted and you can’t restore from it?
Well, that’s when you have a choice to make. [Read more…]
Question from Lynda: When I tag a person and the post comes up on their timeline, only our mutual friends can see it.
I’ve checked my and their settings and it’s set so our friends can see what we are tagged in.
What am I doing wrong?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
A while back I wrote a post explaining how to reset a smart phone back to the factory default settings, and I have received a lot of positive feedback on that post.
Since then I’ve had several people ask me how to do the same for an iPad, so I thought I’d put the instructions for resetting an iPad back to its factory defaults in a post of its own. I hope it will help some folks.
It’s actually quite easy to reset your iPad. Here’s how: [Read more…]
By now you are probably quite familiar with the onscreen keyboard that pops up whenever you access a text box on your mobile device.
What most people don’t know however is recent versions of Microsoft Windows come with onscreen keyboards as well.
You might be wondering why you would ever want to use an onscreen keyboard when your PC already has a full-size physical keyboard.
Well, there are several situations in which an onscreen keyboard can come in handy. Here are a couple that arise fairly often : [Read more…]