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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Saturday, September 16, 2023
Topics covered in this issue…
• How to quickly find out if a website is safe to visit
• Q&A: Is it safe to sell a router that I just replaced?
• Q&A: Can you recommend a good charger for my Kindle Fire tablet?
• How to prevent your shower curtain from sticking to your body
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Today’s featured tech tip….
How to quickly find out if a website is safe to visit
These days it seems like there’s a malicious website lurking around every virtual corner of the Internet. That’s why it pays to play it safe when you encounter a link to a site you’re unfamiliar with.
One easy way to check to see if a given website contains malicious or otherwise dangerous code is to ask Google. And it’s really easy to do…
Just type (or copy and paste) the following into the Google search box (be sure to substitute the domain for the site in question in place of example.com):
https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=example.com
Google will immediately tell you if their bots found any malicious code on that site.
While Google isn’t perfect in regards to this test, they are actually quite good at finding and flagging malicious content.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• Q&A: Is it safe to sell a router that I just replaced?
The answer is yes – if you do this first…
• Q&A: Can you recommend a good charger for my Kindle Fire tablet?
Yes, I really like this one from Amazon themselves…
• Click here to see today’s ‘Picture of the Day’.
Every morning I post a new photo that I find inspiring, intriguing, or just plain beautiful to look at. Jumpstart your day by checking it out.
Rick’s Daily Pick…
Sceptre E248W-19203R 24-inch Professional Thin 1080p LED Monitor
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Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
How to prevent your shower curtain from sticking to your body
You won’t believe how easy it is.
Tech news that caught my eye…
• X now tells you if a post you annotated with a Community Note gets deleted
• If you’d invested in Apple shares instead of iPhones, you’d now have $147,000
• Western Digital launches new 22TB and 44TB Sandisk Professional external hard drives
• Apple will release software update to address iPhone 12 radiation concerns
• Google extends Chromebook support from 8 years to 10 after heightened backlash
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