Rick's Daily Tips

Like reading William Shakespeare? Enjoy his works online for free!

Posted on April 24, 2014

If you enjoy reading Shakespeare, it might interest you to know that you can read all of his classics online for free.

Our friends at MIT have put all of Shakespeare’s writings online in HTML form and you can read them right in your favorite web browser. You can also print them if you wish.

Simply head over to shakespeare.mit.edu and click on the appropriate links!

As you probably know, most everything one could want to read or experience can be found online today. And if it’s in the public domain (as are the works of Shakespeare), it’s absolutely free for the “taking”!

Whatever you’re looking for can probably be found online within minutes with a quick Google search. Enjoy!

Netflix to raise their monthly fees

Posted on April 23, 2014

Netflix has just announced that they plan to raise the fees charged for their service by “1 or 2 dollars” per month.

The rate hike will affect new customers only for the time being, but current Netflix subscribers will see their monthly bill increase also “after a generous time period” has elapsed. [Read more…]

Facebook now penalizing pages that post ‘Like and Share Bait Posts’

Posted on April 23, 2014

We’ve all seen them in our news feeds, and most of us have “Liked” and “Shared” them at one time or another. I’m talking about “Like and Share bait posts”, and Facebook is now starting to penalize Pages that publish them.

Like and Share bait posts typically contain images that consist of a touching photo along with a written message that tons of people are sure to agree with. After all, plenty of folks have a daughter they love with all their heart, right?

The common thread between all of these bait posts is that you will be asked to “Like” and “Share” the post if you agree with the message or find the image to be “touching” in some way.

Sounds harmless, right? Well, it really isn’t. [Read more…]

Review: AGPtek Tape to PC Super USB Cassette-to-MP3 Player Converter

Posted on April 22, 2014

Do you have a stack of old cassette tapes filled with songs that you’d love to add to your MP3 collection?

If you do, there’s an easy and inexpensive way to convert all those great songs that you thought were forever trapped inside your cassette tapes to MP3 files.

The AGPtek Tape to PC Super USB Cassette-to-MP3 Player Converter connects to your PC via a USB cable. Simply load the software onto your computer, plug the cassette player into a USB port, insert a tape and press the “Play” button. [Read more…]

Q&A: Is it possible to buy an Android app without owning an Android device?

Posted on April 21, 2014

Question from Sheila T.: I have an iPhone right now but in three months I can get a new phone for free on my Sprint plan. I plan to get an Android phone and there’s a specific app that I really want to get for it.

That app is on sale right now at a great price, but when I go to the app’s page in the Play Store it tells me that I can’t buy the app because I didn’t log in with an Android device.

I’d really like to buy the app now and save over 70%, but Google won’t let me because I don’t have my Android phone yet. Is there any way around this?

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]