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Two common Microsoft 365 tasks: enabling users to change their own password (it's off by default) and moving an email account to a new laptop.

A 5 to 10 year old computer that feels slow can usually be brought back to life for under $110 in parts — if you know which upgrades are worth doing and which machines can't be upgraded at all.

Part 1 of a three-part series on backing up family photos: the basic rule and the three common setups that feel safe but leave everything exposed.

Scam sites look better than ever. Here's what to check before typing a credit card into a website you don't already know.

I wrote FlowPro in 1997 as a Visual Basic port of a Fortran open-channel-flow program. This week I asked Claude to convert it into a web app.

Ten security findings from an AI-run audit of my own apps — high, medium, and low severity, and how each one got fixed.

Vibe coding drops the barrier to building software. But the difficulty doesn't ramp up gently — and the gap between "looks like it works" and "actually works" can be huge.

Quick Response Codes – QR codes for short – can be linked to web pages. Here’s how to create one that links to your…

Question: I have a lot of books on my Kindle, but sometimes I’d like to read them on my laptop instead of on my Kindle. Is there a…

Back in December 2008, Mother Nature dumped a few inches of snow on Oregon and the kids and I built an igloo. Here's the video — and the modernized how-to for sharing YouTube videos on Facebook.

There are three decisions to make before your first website goes up: where to register the domain, which host to use, and which plan. Here's how to make each one without getting trapped.

A domain, hosting, and something to build the pages with. What each one costs in the first year, and the simplest path if you’ve never done it before.

Question: I have an idea for a new website, but how do I get the web site name, and how much will it cost? Question: I have an idea for a…

Many of my friends (and family members) have said to me "So Rick... how do I get started creating my own blog?"... and I've had the privilege of helping some of them to take that f

Struggling to get a webpage to load properly? Here are 3 simple ways to fix the problem. Have you ever visited a webpage and it just plain doesn’t behave as you think it should? Th

In a previous life I sold and delivered technical training for Jive Software for several years, traveling around the world teaching Fortune 500 companies how to enhance their busin

Drupal lets you define just about any type of content you can imagine using the Taxonomy module. Here's how to create a form that lets regular users create taxonomy terms, without

You can remove friends from your Facebook account at any time using these instructions, and the good news is that your friend won't be notified that you've removed them. Question:

It's easy to see photos and videos you've liked on Instagram, just by going to your profile page and tapping "Posts You've Liked". But if you want to view posts that one of your fo

Instagram keeps track of the users and hashtags you search for, so you can easily find them again in the future. If you're looking for a way to clear out your search history, just

Uploading photos from a DVD to Facebook is a 2-step process. First you import the photos to your computer, and then you can upload them to Facebook. Last week I took my family to C

TweetDeck lets you post tweets to both your Twitter and Facebook accounts. Here's how to set it up. I showed you a while ago how to link your Facebook account with Twitter , so tha

Question: When someone puts RT before your name on a tweet, what does that mean? Answer: RT means "retweet". It's similar to forwarding an email to someone else, but in this case y

I'm hooked on Twitter. It's grown into much more than even it's original charter ever dreamed, which was (quoted directly from their sign-in page): " Twitter is a service for frien

A few days ago my wife complained to me that her Facebook page looked different and she didn't like it at all. She asked me if I could figure out how to get the old one back. I ass

How to transfer pictures from your computer to a digital photo frame. Digital picture frames are awesome. I have one at work, my wife has one at home, and we gave my parents one fo

Question: I've seen people's blog posts showing up in their Facebook and LinkedIn profiles. How do they do that? Answer: (this question is waiting for an answer. If you know the an

I love Facebook and have connected with several old time friends that I haven't seen in ages. I find though that my inbox is filling up with emails from Facebook, letting me know e

Question: How do I set up a group in Facebook? I'd like to get some conversations going around some health care topics that I'm interested in, and would also like to share what I'v

Here's how to link your Twitter and Facebook accounts, so you can have your updates automatically show up in both places. Twitter is a free service that lets you communicate and st

If a picture can tell a thousand words, then a video can be even more effective on your blog or website. You can add your favorite YouTube video to your blog by following these eas

Most web hosting providers include free website template building software to help the average non-programmer build a web site, such as SiteBuilder or the CoffeeCup software suite

Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be downloaded from your website in a given month. Every time someone visits one of your web pages, they're downloading anywhere from 10KB t

On the popular social network, Instagram, you can see what people you follow have posted in a chronological list, and you are notified each time somone posts a photo. But what if y

I have hundreds of contacts in LinkedIn. Is there a way these Linkedin contacts can be exported to an excel spreadsheet? LinkedIn is currently the #1 Social Media Platform for Busi

This week Mother Nature decided to dump a few inches of snow on Oregon, and another 4 piled up this morning while my kids and I built a huge igloo in our front yard. I pulled out t

Dear Mr. Ricky: I had this whole long letter typed out about how I couldn't get into my facebook because i couldn't remember my fb email or my gmail.com Which is also my

Have you ever visited a website that showed you the same exact ad on every single page you visited? You quickly put it in your mental "IGNORE THIS" list, which made it basically in

Question: I'm running Mac OSX 10.9.5 and (Mavericks) and for some reason nothing happens when I click the Finder icon in the dock. This is driving me nuts because I can't

Here's an online tool that will let you download videos from YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo and others - and without any advertisements.There are dozens of websites that let you upload a

Direct messages can start piling up in Twitter, and I don't always have time to look through each message (especially since 95% of them are spam). Here's an easy way to mark all Tw

One of the first things you'll want to do when building a new website is to pick a URL for your site - also known as a domain name. Here's how you can check if your domain name is

How to get Facebook notifications on your Blackberry device.Question: hi i have question, i just downloaded facebook mobile onto my blackberry and my friends have facebook on their