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Do you use Instagram? If so, there’s a very good chance that your account will get hacked very soon.
Right now hackers (who appear to be from Russia) are hacking into and taking control of Instagram accounts by the thousands.
In a nutshell, the hackers are somehow breaking into the accounts and changing both the username and password, making it impossible for the rightful account owners to log back in (or in many cases even locate the account). [Read more…]
Question from Jason: I recently bought a tablet with Windows 10 and I think it has a buggy onscreen keyboard.
Every time I tap the space bar twice in a row it automatically types a period after the last word I typed.
I don’t like that because I use a lot of double spaces and I have to go back and delete the period every time.
I’m thinking this has to be a bug in the software (it’s an el-cheapo tablet). Do you know if there’s a fix for it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
If your web browser has an ad blocker enabled you’ve probably noticed that many websites you want to visit now won’t let you view their content unless you disable the ad blocker.
The reason they’ve adopted this policy? Because they depend on advertising revenue to fund their operations and earn a profit on their investments.
Ad blockers prevent advertisements from showing up in your web browser, and that results in zero ad revenue being earned from the page view.
Therefore, it seems like blocking visitors who use ad blockers would be a wise move, right?
Well, it really isn’t. Read on and I’ll explain why. [Read more…]
Most Windows users know that pressing the Print Screen key will create an exact image of everything on the current screen and place it on the Windows clipboard, thereby creating a “screenshot” image.
I’ve tried several third-part screenshot utilities over the years, but my favorite by far is a nifty little free program called Greenshot. In fact, I think it’s the best thing since that $50 bill that I found laying on the riverbank back when I was a kid!
There are so many things to love about Greenshot, but there are two in particular that make it extremely useful: [Read more…]
It’s been a good while now since Facebook rolled out the “Top Stories” method of displaying posts in our Newsfeeds.
Well, everything that I have seen and read about it clearly indicate that the vast majority of users absolutely hate it.
I receive at least three or four messages every week asking me how to prevent Facebook from randomly switching the Newsfeed from “Most Recent” to “Top Stories”, and every time I have to give the same answer: “You can’t”.
Truth be told, you actually can do it with the help of a third-party browser add-on called Social Fixer, but that shouldn’t be required in my opinion.
You really should be able to disable auto-switching to “Top Stories” in the Facebook settings without having to install another piece of software on your computer, but that simply isn’t possible right now. [Read more…]