Rick's Daily Tips

Review: TRENDnet Powerline 500 AV Nano Adapter Kit

Posted on June 26, 2019

A Powerline Ethernet Adapter kit is the perfect solution when you need to connect a computer to your home network in a distant room where the Wi-Fi signal is weak, and running an Ethernet cable would be difficult or impossible.

Simply plug one adapter into your router and a nearby electrical outlet and the other adapter into an outlet in the room where you need service, and you’re all set.

I recently had the opportunity to check out the TRENDnet Powerline 500 AV Nano Adapter Kit (#ad), and overall I really like it. TRENDnet is known for making high-quality, highly effective devices, and the Powerline 500 is one of the best I have ever used. [Read more…]

Apple has just recalled some MacBook Pro laptops. Is yours one of them?

Posted on June 21, 2019

Apple has just announced a recall of certain MacBook Pro laptops due to faulty batteries that could overheat and start a fire.

Most (but not all) of the faulty batteries were installed in MacBook Pros that were sold between September 2015 and February 2017.

Luckily, only one specific model is affected by the recall.

Follow these steps to find out if your laptop is one of them: [Read more…]

Guess what? You might eventually be able to beat a speeding ticket with the help of Google Maps!

Posted on June 18, 2019

Do you use Google Maps on your Android phone to help plan your trips and then navigate to those destinations?

If so, before long you might be able to use this extremely handy app to help prove your innocence if you have to go to court over a speeding ticket!

[Read more…]

ATTN Bloggers: Chrome is now flagging non-https pages as ‘Not Secure’ right in the address bar!

Posted on June 12, 2019

If you’re a blogger and your blog hasn’t yet been secured with SSL/TLS encryption you need to get that done ASAP!

Back in December 2017 I wrote this post warning bloggers about the need to get their blogs encrypted before Google started actively penalizing non-secured sites.

Well, that day has come…

Google recently rolled out an update to their Chrome browser that causes it to now flag unencrypted pages as “Not Secure” right in the address bar!

Up until recently it was widely understood that only sites that collected credit card data or other sensitive visitor information really needed to be encrypted, but Google has changed that by deciding to clearly mark non-encrypted pages as “Not Secure”.

To show you what I’m talking about, I took a partial screenshot of a web page that I knew to be unencrypted at the time I began writing this post (the site has since been encrypted): [Read more…]