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Question from Barry K.: My neighbor has an almost new 32-inch flat screen TV that he’s offering to sell to me for $45. The thing is it has been damaged.
The right half of the screen got crushed when his little boy hit it with a golf club. He says he had it checked out and they told him it just needs a new screen (the screen doesn’t work at all).
My question is do you think this TV is a good deal at $45? I don’t mind paying to have it fixed if it costs less than $75.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Did you know Amazon has a fantastic ad-free music streaming service? Well, they do, and I love it!
It’s called Amazon Prime Music
Amazon Prime Music streams ad-free music directly to your computer or mobile device.
It works a lot like Pandora, but it’s like getting Pandora’s premium service without having to pay anything extra.
Question from Heather: I recently bought a new laptop that has Windows 10 on it. One of the first things I did was download Chrome because that’s my favorite browser.
Now every time I load Chrome a message pops up suggesting that I give Edge a try.
I don’t want to use Edge because I like Chrome! How can I stop Windows from bugging me about switching to Edge?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger there’s a good chance that your blog is powered by WordPress.
If it is, I recommend that you check the version of PHP that’s currently active on your web server. If it’s running a version that’s lower than 7 you really need to update it to at least PHP 7.0 before the end of December.
If you’re unfamiliar with PHP, that’s the web programming language that the WordPress core files are written in. In other words, PHP is the engine that powers your WordPress blog.
As with virtually everything else that’s related to WordPress, older versions of PHP will eventually be retired and stop receiving security updates. And that’s about to happen with PHP on December 31, 2018.
Facebook is a wonderful service that makes it easy to keep in touch with family and friends, but as we all know, using it can be an exercise in frustration at times.
One of the biggest frustrations for many Facebook users is how the newsfeed keeps getting switched from “Most Recent” to “Top Stories”.
Unfortunately, toggling the newsfeed from “Top Stories” to “Most Recent” seems to only work for a little while. Before you know it, you’re back to looking at Facebook’s list of “Top Stories”, whether you want to or not.
But guess what? There’s now an easy way to make your newsfeed stay on “Most Recent”, and after testing it for several days I can tell you that it works like a charm! [Read more…]