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It seems that hackers and scammers are willing to do virtually anything to steal control of your computer, your online accounts and your sensitive personal information these days.
The latest scam making the rounds takes advantage of our natural curiosity about what might have happened to the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. [Read more…]
Question from Rishabh R.: Yesterday I was chatting with my friend, and after our conversation was over, we both logged out.
But today when I logged into my Facebook account and opened the message column and tried to message her again, it showed an error.
Our previous conversation is there, but my friend’s name is in black colour. When I tried to click on her name, it wouldn’t click. The same problem is not happening with my other friends. So I just wanna know have I done something wrong? Or maybe my friend has?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
If you own an Apple mobile device, there’s a good chance that you can now update it to iOS 7.1. And even though the version number of the operating system only went from 7 to 7.1, this is no minor upgrade!
In addition to squashing a host of irritating and dangerous bugs, iOS 7.1 also enhanced several existing features while adding one big new one that’s sure to draw a lot of attention: native support for CarPlay. [Read more…]
I’m often asked how to determine which version of a particular web browser is installed on a computer. In fact, three people have asked me this same question just this week.
Since knowing the current version of your web browser is often useful for troubleshooting Internet-related issues, I thought it might be helpful to write a tip explaining how to determine the version number in all the most popular browsers.
Just follow the steps below for your particular browser. [Read more…]
If you’re a Facebook user you’re probably aware that scams hit your newsfeed literally on a daily basis. There really is a new one just about every day, and they seem to get more insidious all the time.
The latest scam to hit the Facebook world is the “Naked Friend” scam, and it works something like this: [Read more…]