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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…]
If you own a self-hosted WordPress blog, there might come a time when you need to move your blog to a different server (or even a new web hosting company). After all, better deals come along, or perhaps you might grow weary of problems with your existing web host.
If you ever find yourself needing to move your WordPress blog to a new server, the process can be completed in minutes if both the old server and the new one are running the excellent WHM Control Panel software. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Yahoo has just announced that come mid-July, all Yahoo accounts that haven’t been logged into within the past 12 months will be shut down.
That means any data contained within those accounts will be deleted, and the account IDs (i.e. usernames) will be made available to other users.
Of course if you have an account that you haven’t logged into in over a year, chances are you won’t really be too upset about losing it.
But what if the account ID contains your real name or some other bit of personal or financial info that you’d rather not see fall under someone else’s control? [Read more…]