Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
This is your Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Update for Sunday, July 25, 2021.
–Use your phone’s “Contacts List” as a notepad
–3 reasons to install Linux on your ‘Internet-Only’ PC
–Q&A: How do I change my birth date on Facebook?
–ATTN Bloggers: Beware insecure and malicious WordPress plugins
–Guess what? This video game company is 132 years old
–Info about my photo/file recovery service
This is your Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Update for Saturday, July 10, 2021.
–How to stop an app from launching automatically on your Mac
–Apple has added a new (and awesome) ‘Account Recovery’ tool to iOS 15
–Should you optimize the Windows Registry?
–Give an older PC new life by replacing Windows with Linux
–How many gallons of water flow over Niagara Falls every day?
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This is your Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Update for Tuesday, June 15, 2021.
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–This tip will make the task of writing your blog posts a lot easier
–Q&A: Will lightning damage equipment that’s turned off when it strikes?
–Q&A: Can I convert my old Windows laptop into a Chromebook?
–Linux replacements for 17 popular Windows programs
–“Orange Blossom Special” (my favorite version ever)
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Question from Liam: My wife and I recently went to a flea market to look for some things for our house.
I ended up buying a used Lenovo ThinkPad T400 with Windows 7 on it.
It’s obvious that it’s a pretty old laptop but it seems to work well.
I didn’t notice it when it was running at the flea market but there’s a message in the corner of the screen saying “This copy of Windows is not genuine”.
What does that mean? Is it a problem? [Read more…]
Knowing how to keep your PC running smoothly and doing your own repairs is a lot of fun as well as a real money saver.
I’ve been working on computers for well over 30 years but I still gain a lot of satisfaction every time I fix someone’s computer.
There’s a lot to learn when it comes to the inner workings of a PC and the software that runs on it, and knowing how to put those skills to work in the most efficient manner possible is half the battle.