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This is your Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Update for Friday, July 23, 2021.
–Why you should snap photos with your phone’s ‘Volume’ button
–Prevent hackers from spying on you via your PC’s microphone
–Q&A: Are all the Facebook scams you write about actually real?
–Q&A: Why is it risky to use two drives in a RAID 0 configuration?
–Check out this incredible time-lapse video of the Earth at night
–Info about my photo/file recovery service
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Regular readers of this blog know many of my posts stress the importance of running regular scans with a really good antivirus/anti-malware app to keep your system free of digital nasties.
But as important as anti-malware software apps are at keeping your PC malware-free, the best protection against viruses, spyware, ransomware and other malicious forms of software has nothing to do with your computer itself.
The best tool you can ever have in your security arsenal is you! [Read more…]
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If you’re like most folks you probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about what will happen after you pass away.
After all, that isn’t the most pleasant of topics.
But taking a few minutes to prepare now can make things a lot easier on your loved ones when that sad day finally arrives.
And arrive it will since no one lives forever. [Read more…]
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As you surely already know, the Internet can be a very dangerous place – and social media has made it more dangerous still.
I have already written several posts warning parents about the dangers of posting photos of their small children online, and now the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has boosted the danger to an entirely new level. [Read more…]
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I receive lots of tech questions here at Rick’s Daily Tips, and there’s one question in particular that I receive time and again:
“If I delete a message I’ve sent to someone on Messenger will it be deleted from the recipient’s inbox as well?”
The answer to that question used to be no, but Meta changed that a while back.
Now when you send someone a message you have 10 minutes to change your mind and “Unsend” it if you want to. And it’s very easy to do. Just follow the steps below for the device you’re using. [Read more…]