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Question from Freida K.: I just bought a Samsung Galaxy S6 phone and it keeps loading the Camera app every time I double-tab the “Home” button.
I don’t like that and it’s driving me nuts. Is there a way to stop it from happening?
Rick’s answer: I understand your frustration Freida, and you aren’t alone in your dislike for Samsung’s “Camera Quick Launch” feature. Luckily, you can easily turn it off. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Lenovo has just announced the recall of 166,500 laptop batteries in the United States and Canada due to a potential fire hazard.
If your laptop has one of the affected batteries, you should remove it from the laptop immediately and contact Lenovo Support to request a free replacement battery. To find out if the battery in your laptop is affected by this recall, simply visit this page and check to see if its part number is on the list.
While you’re waiting for your replacement battery to arrive, you can use your laptop while running on power supplied by the AC adapter (without a battery installed).
As you probably already know, Twitter has never allowed their users to send direct messages (DMs) to other users who don’t follow them. But as of today, that is no longer the case.
A new security setting is being rolled out right now that will let any Twitter user opt to receive DMs from any other Twitter user, whether they follow them or not.
If you prefer not to receive DMs from non-followers you won’t have to do a thing because the new feature is disabled by default.
If, on the other hand, you would like to change the setting and start receiving DMs from people you don’t follow, here is how to do it: [Read more…]
Question from Rita H.: I recently went to Verizon and upgraded my phone to an iPhone 6. I’m glad I did because this is my first iPhone and I love it! I still don’t know a lot about it though.
A friend of mine also has an iPhone 6 and she said her son enabled something called HD Voice on her phone and now her calls sound a lot clearer.
I asked her how to enable it on my phone and she said she doesn’t know. Can you tell me how to do it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Hiking, camping, and just enjoying the great outdoors are wonderful ways to get back to nature for a while, but if you need to keep your mobile phone, tablet or GPS charged up while you’re out there, good luck!
But now our friends at Amazon have an awesome new device that makes it easy to keep your mobile devices charged up while you’re out someplace in the boonies.
The Anker 14W Solar Panel Foldable Dual-port Solar Charger provides up to 5v at 2 amps to your USB charged mobile devices. This is plenty of power to keep your batteries “hot” and ready for use whenever you need them. [Read more…]