Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Anthony J.: Rick, I have a custom built PC with an ASUS motherboard that supports DDR3-1333MHZ RAM. It’s about 5 or 6 years old as best I can recall.
I want to upgrade the memory from 4GB to 8GB, but the only RAM sticks I could find locally are DDR3-1600MHZ. Will they work with my motherboard without damaging anything?
Rick‘s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Cindy T.: I just found out that my ex is somehow causing all of my Gmail messages to be forwarded to his own email account.
I know he had the password to my account for a while because I let him use it when he was looking for a job (the lazy bum never did find one). I guess that’s when he set up the forwarding.
Anyway, how can I stop my emails from being forwarded to his account?
Rick’s answer: Cindy, what you’ll need to do is log into your Gmail account and disable “Forwarding” in your account settings. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Sometimes corporations make decisions that are so bone-headed you just have to wonder what they were thinking. The most recent example comes to us courtesy of Verizon.
As you probably know, first responders in California are currently fighting dozens of major wildfires across the state.
And as you can imagine, fire-fighters and other emergency personnel rely heavily on their smartphones for critical communications between themselves and the folks who are directing the campaign to put out the fires and save the lives and property of thousands of California citizens.
One large fire department that’s been hard at work fighting the blazes had their devices’ Internet data speeds severely throttled by Verizon because every device they were using had exceeded the data limit allowed under their “Unlimited Data” contract. [Read more…]
Question from Claire: I use Gmail and when I click “Compose” button to write a new email the text box has always been centered in the Gmail window.
But this morning when I opened Gmail and clicked “Compose” the box opened in the lower right corner of the window.
I tried clicking on the title bar and dragging the box back to the center of the window, but it won’t budge.
I don’t like having the “Compose New Email” box way down there in the corner. How can I get it back to the center of the window?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Do you allow your web browser to store the passwords to your online accounts?
I realize that stored passwords make using the Internet a lot easier, but truth be told it’s a very dangerous practice.
I wrote a post a while back that explains several reasons why using stored passwords is a bad idea, but now another reason has come to light. [Read more…]