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This is a heads-up to all my fellow bloggers…
If your blog is using the popular WordPress plugin Fast Secure Contact Form you need to remove it ASAP and use a different plugin to create your contact forms.
It really pains me to have to recommend this course of action because this has long been one of my favorite plugins. [Read more…]
As you probably know, Microsoft allowed folks using Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to upgrade to Windows 10 for free during the first year after it was released.
That blanket free upgrade offer ended on July 29, 2016, but Microsoft decided to allow users with a disability that requires them to use some form of assistive technology to keep receiving the free upgrades even after the July 29 cut-off date.
Well, that special offer is about expire very soon, and most people are unaware that it’s about to end. [Read more…]
As you probably know, Facebook is constantly making changes to both their website and their policies.
Some of those changes are good, and some of them are bad (at least from the user’s point of view).
But every now and then they come up with one that leaves me not quite knowing what to think about it. A perfect case-in-point is a new anti-revenge porn initiative they’re currently testing. [Read more…]
External USB hard drives give us tons of flexibility when it comes to storing large amounts of data and sharing it among multiple devices, but they tend to be quite fragile.
Drop one on a hard surface and the drive will likely be damaged beyond repair.
Well, now you won’t have to worry about that any longer because the folks at Transcend have developed a 1 TB external USB hard drive (#ad) that can withstand a moderate drop without sustaining any damage. [Read more…]
A while back I told you about Manuals Online, a vast online library of user manuals for most any kind of product you can think of.
If you own it, Manuals Online probably has a digital copy of its user manual on their website for you to download at no cost.
Well, today I’m going to tell you about another great source for free user manuals, but this one offers manuals exclusively for tech products. [Read more…]