Rick's Daily Tips

Scam alert: The popular Copyfish OCR browser extension has been hacked

Posted on July 31, 2017

Copyfish is a very popular Optical Character Recognition (OCR) browser extension that extracts text from images and videos so you can insert it into a regular text file.

OCR technology has been around for decades, but Copyfish and other extensions now make it easy to extract text right from within your web browser.

Unfortunately, one of the employees at A9T9 (the company behind the Copyfish extension) fell for a phishing attempt and effectively handed control of the Copyfish Chrome extension to a hacker. [Read more…]

RicksDailyTips Newsletter for July 29, 2017 – ‘Back-to-School’ shopping at Amazon

Posted on July 29, 2017

Hello again! I hope you had a great week and you’re having a fantastic summer!

Well, July is almost over, and that means the summer vacation is almost over for most students around the country.

And you know what that means: It’s “Back-to-School” shopping time!

Today I’d like to give you a few tips for getting your back-to-school shopping over and done with as quickly and inexpensively as possible by shopping at Amazon. [Read more…]

How business owners can track customer information via their merchant accounts

Posted on July 25, 2017

Did you know that when you offer credit card processing to your clients, your systems can do much more than just accept payments?

With Merchant Account Solutions options, you can collect customer information for later use, keep up with inventory from your store, and even keep up with employee’s schedules.

The amazing merchant services offered from the folks at MAS allow you to do a variety of tasks to make running your business easier than ever before. [Read more…]

RicksDailyTips Newsletter for July 22, 2017 – How to protect your Apple devices from malware

Posted on July 22, 2017

Hello again. I hope you’re having a fantastic summer!

Windows users have been in a constant struggle against malware for years, and the folks with Apple devices are now being targeted as well.

In fact, more Macs are getting infected with malware all the time. And it’s getting pretty bad for iOS devices as well.

This edition of my newsletter is dedicated to helping you keep your Apple devices completely malware-free.

First, let’s talk about keeping malware off of your Mac… [Read more…]

Q&A: How can I make Chrome stop asking for a password on my Linux laptop?

Posted on July 18, 2017

Question from Oliver: After reading your post about replacing Windows with Linux I decided to give to try it on an old Windows Vista laptop that I haven’t used in a while.

I took your advice from that post and installed Ubuntu. The installation went fine, and just as you predicted that old laptop now runs a LOT faster than it did with Windows!

Since I’m the only person that will use this machine I removed the password in the user settings and set it to boot into Ubuntu without having to enter a password.

Now the laptop boots up without asking for a password to log in, but every time I load Google Chrome I get a message telling me to enter the password, and I can’t do anything with Chrome until I enter the old password that I deleted from my user account. This is the message I get:

“Enter password to unlock your login keyring“

How can I stop Chrome from asking for a password?

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]