Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
If you don’t see it already, you’ll soon notice a little camera icon on the right-hand side of the text box when you’re commenting on a Facebook post or picture. Click on the camera icon and you can upload a picture directly into the comment box.
This new feature is being rolled out as I write this, and before long all Facebook users will have the ability to insert photos directly into their comments. [Read more…]
Question from Mary: Hi Rick, I’ve got a problem that I could use your help on.
The other day I was watching a video on my computer and dad started talking to me so I muted the sound, and now it won’t come back on at all.
When I click the sound icon, it does nothing. (I’m talking about the icon in the video box, not the computer’s sound icon.
The computer itself still has sound except when watching videos like on Youtube. What did I do and how do I fix it? I’ve restarted my computer hoping that would help, but no go.
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Question from Donna T.: I have a Sprint Samsung smart phone running Android (no clue what version). It drives me crazy by automatically connecting to my wireless network every time I walk into the house. Even if I turn Wi-Fi off on the phone, the next thing I know it has connected again.
I never use my phone with my home Wi-Fi network and I’d like to prevent it from automatically connecting to it. How do I do that?
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Question from Adriana N.: Hi there Rick! My question probably has a simple answer but I just can’t figure it out.
I have a fairly popular book review blog with a domain name that’s based upon my own real name.
This blog has become fairly popular, and after reading a couple of articles on the subject I decided it would be in my best interest to purchase a different domain name for the blog and ditch the one that’s based upon my name.
My question is this: How can I redirect the old domain name to the new one without losing the existing traffic and Google rankings (approximately 800 unique visitors per day and PR4) to the new domain name? I really hate the thought of losing out on all that traffic and rankings.
By the way, my new blog is hosted on a Linux server from Hostgator (thanks for recommending them – they’re great!).
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As one would expect, Windows phone users have been able to run Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint) on their phones for some time now, but iPhone users who wanted to do the same were left out in the cold. But that has now changed.
Microsoft has just released Office for iPhone, a really nice app that is available for free in the Apple App Store to Office 365 subscribers. Office for iPhone wasn’t intended to be used for creating new Office files on your iPhone, just for editing them, sharing them and syncing them with your Desktop PC. [Read more…]