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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Saturday, December 31, 2022
• Teaching kids how to use technology safely
• Did you know you can sell your unwanted gift cards for cash?
• Q&A: Can you use two mice to control one computer?
• Failure is inevitable. Take advantage of it.
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Tuesday, December 13, 2022
• Q&A: How can I tell if an Amazon gift card email is legit?
• How to disable the ‘Smart Compose’ feature in Gmail
• How word games can improve your logical thinking
• Life tip: Never allow yourself to lose the desire to learn
This year’s Christmas shopping season in now in full swing, and you know what that means…
Yep, the scammers are out in force on Facebook trying their best to scam innocent users out of their hard-earned money.
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Tuesday, November 15, 2022
• Beware scam sellers on Facebook Marketplace
• How to quickly select multiple items on a PC or Mac
• How to make your Instagram messages disappear after they’ve been read
• How to save big by doing your own appliance repairs
Facebook is a wonderful venue for sharing our thoughts, ideas and photos with our friends and loved ones, but it also has a very serious downside. It’s ridiculously easy for false information to spread like wildfire by “going viral”.
Just think of all the “Free Gift Card” and “Click and share to get Facebook to donate to this great cause” scams. We see them every day. And make no mistake about it, these are very serious scams.
But there’s another type of scam that routinely takes place on Facebook that is perhaps even worse. Some folks use Facebook to falsely accuse innocent people of crimes and infractions they didn’t commit. [Read more…]