There’s a new scam making the rounds, and it has some unusual features. It’s commonly called the Laryngitis Scam, and it bypasses a lot of the useful tips I gave in the previous article about detecting the difference between real and scam emails. It’s worth learning about, because there’s no …
For as long as we’ve had technology, we’ve had scammers. Crooks have been fooling people since the invention of writing on clay tablets, and many of the modern email scams aren’t much more advanced than that. I’m talking here about our good friends the Nigerian scammers. These don’t always come …
As I write this, the deadline for upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 is only a week away, and people are asking what they can do. To save a little typing, here are my answers in an easy-to-find form. Share and enjoy! The Problem When Microsoft came out with …
Take a look at the bottom of your computer screen. If there’s a “dock” down there that wobbles when you mouse over it, you’re on a Macintosh and what follows is not your problem, so well done there. If there’s a pretty-coloured Windows button toward the middle of the task …
This won’t be of interest to most of you, but I’m putting it here so that someone can maybe google for it on Bing, and find the answers that other websites, forums and StackOverflow answers don’t seem to have. We assume you’re starting with a Windows machine that either has …
Picture if you will: it’s Sunday evening, Mother’s Day, and the younger daughter is showing off her cooking skills with an amazing meal of The Beloved’s choosing. Naturally, I pitch in at my appropriate skill level: doing the washing-up. And then I see the problem: we’re out of dish-washing detergent. …
You know the drill by now. You log in to Facebook and there it is: a Friend request from your good mate, Fred Nurk, who you’ve known for years. Ordinarily, you’d click Confirm without a moment’s hesitation, except… you could have sworn Fred was already your Facebook Friend. What’s going …
Christmas has been and gone, and most of us are now in possession of a fridge full of leftovers and perhaps a spare room full of interstate relatives. If you’re one of the lucky ones who also gained a new computer this season, you might be wondering what you can …
‘Tis the season to have problems with Facebook, it seems. A couple of days ago, a friend ran into trouble because she’d lost admin access to her business’s FB page. She was selling the business, including the page, but the new owners never received their login emails, and she had …
Nobody likes cheques, right? Irritating to write out, dreadful to deal with, and there’s got to be a better way. But credit card facilities are expensive, and nowadays nobody carries cash for fear it will be covered in evil germs. So what to do? How do you send and receive …
