Rick's Daily Tips

Adobe to officially (and mercifully) kill off Flash in December 2020

Posted on August 2, 2017

Adobe has announce in a blog post that they will officially “retire” Flash at the end of 2020, finally putting an end to their (and our) constant struggle to keep it updated and safe from hackers.

Flash was an amazing technology back in the early days of the web. It allowed content creators to fill our world with all kinds of active content that would otherwise have been difficult to produce.

But that is no longer the case.

Modern technologies have now made Flash obsolete, and one security flaw after another has made it downright dangerous. Thankfully, the end of the Flash era is in sight. [Read more…]

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…]