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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Saturday, August 26, 2023
• How to search Google for a person’s social media accounts
• Q&A: Why is Facebook so easy to hack?
• Q&A: Can I convert an older hard drive into a USB drive?
• Change two lives by adopting a shelter pet
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Monday, June 19, 2023
• How to turn off notifications for an app on Android
• Warning: Don’t depend on Facebook’s privacy settings to protect your sensitive info
• Review: CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD PFC 1500VA 900W Sinewave UPS
• Time-lapse video: Watch a powerful lightning storm develop in just 78 seconds
Do you have a loved one who was active on Facebook, but has now passed on?
If so, you might be surprised to learn that hackers and scammers would love to take control of your deceased loved one’s Facebook account.
I know it sounds despicable (and it is), but countless low-lifes are constantly searching for accounts where the owners have passed on, leaving their orphaned accounts wide open for exploitation. [Read more…]
Question from Michael: Hi, Rick. I look forward to getting your newsletter every morning. I’m fairly tech savvy but I almost always learn something new.
I susbscribe to several other Substack newsletters in addition to yours and I’ve noticed something. In every case the newsletter homepage resembles a blog.
What I mean is all the old newsletter issues are listed there so people can read them online as articles.
So that brings me to my question: Is Substack primarily a newsletter platform or a blogging platform? [Read more…]
If you send out a Substack newsletter you might be struggling to figure out the best way to grow your subscriber list.
After all, it doesn’t matter how great your newsletter content is if no one is receiving it in their Inbox.
In this post I’m going to explain how I almost doubled the size of my Substack’s subscriber list from a little over 8,000 subscribers to over 14,600 in just one year. [Read more…]