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If you’ve been using Facebook for more than 10 minutes you’ve no doubt seen posts that made you so upset you wanted to click a button to “Dislike” it.
Well, before long you’ll be able to do just that.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that the company is actively developing a Dislike button, and it WILL be rolled out to users when it is ready. [Read more…]
If you have an Phone, iPad or iPod Touch you probably have tons of apps, photos, music and other files on your device(s).
Making regular backups will ensure that you’ll be able to easily restore all of those precious items if something should ever happen to your device.
You have several options when deciding how to back up your iOS device, but my preferred method by far is backing up to your iCloud account. If you’d like to use iCloud to store your backups as well, here’s how to do it: [Read more…]
Question from Eddie V.: The county I live in had a massive auction of surplus items and I ended up buying 168 Dell OptiPlex 755/SDT desktop computers. They all appear to be identically configured with these specs:
I know that older computers aren’t worth a lot these days, but I thought these were worth a bid simply because there were so many of them. I ended up winning the auction and paying $216 for the lot.
My big concern is they might not be worth anything at all since Microsoft has officially killed off Windows XP. What do you think I could do with these computers to make a little bit of money from this deal?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Evelyn: I started a women’s issues blog about a year ago, and at first the pages would load really fast. But as I added posts and photos and the site started getting more traffic, it started loading slower and slower.
I read about a service called Cloudflare that speeds up your site by placing copies of it on servers located in multiple places around the world. I decided to sign up and give it a try, and you wouldn’t believe how much it reduced the page load times on my blog pages!
But I have a problem. After enabling Cloudflare I can’t log in to CPANEL or connect to the blog via my FTP client (Filezilla).
Can you tell me what I need to do to fix this issue? I really need access to CPANEL occasionally and I use FTP every day! My blog is running on WordPress and it’s hosted by Hostgator.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Windows 10 has now been out for well over a month, and I believe most of the bugs and kinks have been worked out by now.
If your PC is running either Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you can give Windows 10 a try for free. If you don’t like it you’ll have 30 days to roll back to your previous Windows version.
You can install the free Windows 10 upgrade by clicking the “Get Windows Now” icon located in the lower right-hand corner of your screen. If you don’t see the icon, make sure you have installed all available Windows updates, then look for the icon again. It should be there. [Read more…]