Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
I received three emails yesterday from folks wanting to know how to reset their LG G4 smart phones back to their factory default settings.
I don’t know yet whether there is something going on with the G4, but I thought I should write a post explaining how to reset it just in case. All you have to do is follow the steps detailed below. [Read more…]
One of the most discomforting things about Facebook is having to click “Decline” when you receive an invitation to an event that you would rather not attend. After all, nobody wants to be considered a party-pooper!
While you can always click “Maybe” (or simply ignore the invitation altogether), that will leave the host wondering if you’re going to show up. [Read more…]
Security firm Dr. Web has discovered a new strain of ransomeware that’s attacking Linux-based web servers, encrypting their contents and demanding a ransome from the site owners in exchange for the decryption keys.
That means your website/blog could be at serious risk if your web hosting company isn’t very diligent about protecting their servers from the latest security threats. [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger, there are probably times when you find yourself in a situation where you need to take a peek at a website’s HTML source code? I do this fairly often, and chances are you do as well.
Virtually every web browser in use today allows you to display the HTML source code of the current web page with just a few mouse clicks, but the clicks required to do so vary from browser to browser.
But as luck would have it, there’s one very simple and super-fast way to display a page’s source code in any major browser, and it works the same way in all of them… [Read more…]
Tablet PCs are flying off the shelves these days, and for good reason. Even a budget tablet offers much of the functionality of a full-blown PC along with the awesome convenience of a mobile device.
That being said, many of the best-selling tablets run the Android operating system, and that’s fine if all you need to do with your tablet is use the Internet and play games.
But if you want to perform real computing tasks, you’re going to need something more.
I recently had an opportunity to check out the ASUS Transformer Book T100HA-C4-GR, a nifty tablet from ASUS that doubles as a laptop. It includes all of the following: [Read more…]