Rick's Daily Tips

Q&A: How can I delete unused images in WordPress?

Posted on May 22, 2019

Question from Dan J.: Hi Rick. I recently made the switch from Blogger to my own self-hosted WordPress blog with the help of your step-by-step guide to installing WordPress. I can honestly say it’s the best move I’ve ever made.

I need your help with one issue though. I have a habit of changing my mind about the images I use with my posts, sometimes more than once. The unused images always pop up in the Media Library when I go back to choose an image for a post.

How can I remove the images that I don’t ever plan to use from the media library?

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Warning: If you use the ‘Ever’ photo storage app, your photos are being used for Face Recognition purposes!

Posted on May 22, 2019

Do you or someone you know use the popular “Ever” photo storage app?

If so, you need to know that according to this NBC News story the company behind the app is using your photos for face recognition purposes!

The company says they’re only using their customers’ photos to “train” the app, but who knows what’s really going on behind the scenes?

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Q&A: Can I run old DOS games on my Windows 7 PC?

Posted on May 16, 2019

Question from Darren S.: I have several old DOS-based games that I bought at a yard sale and I’d love to be able to play some of them on my Windows 7 laptop. Will they run on that computer? If not, is it possible to install DOS in a dual-boot configuration and run them that way?

Rick’s Answer: Darren, it is possible to run some DOS games under Windows 7 (as well as XP, Vista and Windows 8), but due to major differences in the way DOS and Windows handle memory and I/O you’ll need to run them within a DOS emulator.

There are several DOS emulators for Windows available, but I would recommend trying one called DOSBox first. DOSBox has been around for a long time and they seem to have a lot of the kinks in the emulation process worked out. [Read more…]

Q&A: How can I get the Klondike game in Microsoft Solitaire Collection off of Random?

Posted on May 16, 2019

Question from Vivian: My Internet went off last night and just to have something to do I opened the Klondike game in the Microsoft Solitaire Collection app.

The game loaded fine but a message popped up saying I could only play the game in Random mode since there was no Internet connection.

The Internet was back on when I woke up this morning so I tried to take the game off of Random so I could play it the way I usually do. But I can’t find a setting to change it.

Can you tell me how to get my Klondike game back off of Random mode?

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