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Two free tools to check whether customer reviews on Amazon are legitimate. I believe that most online shoppers would read customer product reviews as part of their decision-making process, I know I do. These two AI-powered tools will filter out fake reviews and present a …
One of the main things I think I would really miss if I moved from Opera is the Speed Dials. Firefox is my second browser of choice and I was wondering if I could add Speed Dials to it through some extension. The answer is, …
In this digital age, scams and scammers abound and it amazes me how these scammers keep coming up with new and innovative ways to cheat innocent victims out of their hard-earned money or trick them into giving up sensitive information. In what I consider a …
When I print a web page, I don’t want the menus, ads, etc. I only want a clean simplified copy to print. Firefox, my second browser of choice, gives you such an option. I wrote about this before here: How To Clean Up Mashed Up …
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Overview I recently had to set up a new computer. After installing Windows and MS Office, I noticed that there was a link to an application called Power Automate. Not knowing what it was, I opened it. Microsoft Power Automate is a workflow engine that …
First of all, I’m ignoring all VPNs now owned by Kape Technologies. Kape Technologies (formerly Crossrider) has a nefarious history and to this very day is responsible for one of the most widespread and notorious tech support scams. The scam, formerly known as Reimage Repair …
Today, I opened Thunderbird and it automatically updated to Supernova, specifically version 115.2.0 in my case. Supernova represents a modernized overhaul of the software – both visually and technically. You can read more on Supernova from the Mozilla announcement. This is great if you like …
A guy came to me because he was getting all kinds of pop-up ads on his Chromebook. These include the type that insists that your system is infected. This is not a virus but just notifications and ads. If you have this problem, you gave …
We’ve just gone through a spate of the infamous “Unclaimed Parcel” scam here in Australia and now, it seems, the scammers have come up with yet another ingenious means to dupe innocent victims. Separate instances of the following text message was received by both my …
Today I was working at my day job and accidently closed my browser. Not only one tab but the whole browser with all the tabs I was working with. This might have happened to you and thought you could never get them back. I’m here …
I didn’t notice this right away because I rarely turn off my main computer. But on one of my backup systems, after one of Opera’s last updates, the Opera browser would start up when I powered on my computer. I don’t know why they did …
Why do you want to pause Thunderbird from downloading your email? Glad you asked. My email service from Eastlink all of a sudden decided that my Password was invalid. I kept getting an error message claiming the “Authentication failed”. When I click on OK then …
Did you know that millions of people in rural America have a DSL Internet service of between 25- 40Mbps, a quarter of a million still use dial-up and 13 million don’t have Internet access at all? There are probably similar figures for other countries, …
This is an area that continues to frustrate me because, despite all the good advice over many years to help folk avoid getting scammed, millions of innocent victims are still losing millions of dollars each year to scammers. Some time ago we published an article …
