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Google Drive is a fantastic service that effectively gives you extra hard drive storage that’s located in the cloud. This allows you to access your most frequently used files from any PC or mobile device that has access to the Internet.
By default the Google Drive folder is located on your Windows Desktop, but you can easily add it to the list of drives in Windows Explorer. Just follow these simple instructions: [Read more…]
Have you ever received calls or texts from someone that you’d rather not hear from? That’s a rhetorical question of course because we all have, and it can get old in a hurry when the annoying calls and/or texts just keep on coming in.
There are a number of ways to block numbers from calling or texting us on our smart phones, but if you have an iPhone running iOS 7 it’s very easy. And best of all, there are no apps to download or a bunch of hoops to jump through.
Here’s how to block a number on iOS 7: [Read more…]
Question from Chasity E.: My Dell laptop caught a bad virus and I had to re-install Windows 7 and in the process I lost the driver for my USB Wi-Fi adapter. I looked for the disk that came with the adapter and I can’t find it anywhere.
Do you know where I can download the right driver for a Netgear WNDA3100v2? I checked Netgear’s website but I couldn’t find it.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Carl: Hi Rick. I have an iPhone 4 that I upgraded to IOS 7 just as soon as it was released. I think it’s a great upgrade, but I can’t figure out how to display the Battery Life Precentage indicator. Can you tell me how?
Rick’s answer: This issue has perplexed a lot of iPhone users Carl. You’d think something as important as the Battery Life Indicator would be enabled by default, wouldn’t you? Anyway, here’s how to turn it on:
1 – Open the Settings Menu
2 – Tap General
3 – Tap Usage
4 – Tap Battery Percentage
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Firefox is one of the most poplar web browsers in use today, primarily because of the huge number of outstanding add-ons that are available for it. One of my favorite Firefox add-ons is FireFTP, a wonderful extension that lets you send and receive files via FTP right from a tab in the Firefox browser window!
I use FireFTP every single day to upload images and other files to my WordPress blogs. Follow the steps below if you’d like to give it a try. [Read more…]