Questions this week from Doris, John, Rooman, Sheila, Philip, Joe, Jeanette, Barb, John, Derek, Jay, Charles, and Kent covered all sorts of territory from bookmark synchronization, to email attachment problems (sending and receiving), laptop and netbook recommendations, and much more. Have a look!
I answered 25 questions in 10 minutes (YouTube limit) this week. Great questions as usual from all over the globe. This week’s questions come from Brian, Maurice, Harold, Pam, Kathleen, Bill, Ed, Deidre, Judy, Sue, Michael, Juia, Kaljo, Ron, Dick, Thomas, Neil, Robert, Jose, Mike, AmaLia, Eric, Barb, John, and Jon. I haven’t pointed this out before, but I answer… Read More »Rick Answers his email Videocast – 036
Sort of a Part II to this week’s Videocast 034 since I had so much email to catch up on this week. Again, great questions, this edition includes questions from Beverly, Sandra, Aaron, Margie, Karen, Bill, Douglas, Jose, Nilesh, Diane, Michael, Ralph, Kari, Martha, Neil, and Leo.
After a two week absence as I prepared the new web site, I’m back to answering your email again via my weekly videocast. This week it will be split into two different videos because I was so behind. GREAT questions the past few weeks ranging from questions about the web site and newsletter to Ubuntu, to donating a computer, slow… Read More »Rick Answers his email Videocast – 034
If you are a weekly newsletter subscriber, please read this information. After two weeks of soul searching, research, and web browsing, I decided to move the email newsletter subscribers to my FeedBlitz service. Feedblitz picks out my newest articles and delivers them to you in an email. The service works great and I will be moving the address list into… Read More »Important Newsletter Information!
I’m not sure why, but I’ve seen a rash of lost toolbars in Outlook Express and Windows Mail. If you lost your main toolbar with reply, print, new message, etc and you need to know how to get it back, watch this video. If you know other people with this infliction, please pass the video on to them.
Social engineering strikes again.
Last spring, a spam posing as a reunion invitation made its rounds around the Internet. The spam/virus gets spread by an unsuspecting and less than alert computer user opens an email supposedly from a class mate inviting them to a reunion. Once the email is opened, a root-kit (hard to detect spyware/virus hybrid) gets deployed on the person’s computer and begins to spread itself from there.
This scenario repeats itself hundreds of thousands times over a couple of days and eventually infects millions of computers around the world.
A variant of the very same ploy started to make its rounds again this year coming to a crescendo over the past couple of weeks with millions more people duped.
Mysterious file extensions, flickering monitors (the LCD kind), donating old computers, printing to a file and more are included in this week’s edition brought to you by questions from: James, Barbara, Bev, Robert, Bill, Al, Barb, Keith, Cheryl, Marilyn, Chuck, Charles, Guilermo, and Jack.
With questions from Jim, Cindy, Harley, Mike, Bruce, Marshall, Jason, Larry, Diane, Patsy, Marilyn, Maury, Bill, Michael, and Dave, I give answers covering topics from Kim Komando’s web site, Outlook email oddities, Picasa slide shows, headphone jack problems, decoding Firefox cache files and much more. Have a listen!
Here is a tip to cut down on those hideous email headers and help take a huge bite out of email spam.
If you are planning on sending an email to more than a few people, use the BCC or “blind carbon copy” function. Instead of addressing them all in the “to” section of your email, use the BCC instead. This allows you to still send the email to all the people on your list, but the recipients will not see any of the people to whom the mail was addressed!
In the follow video, I demonstrate how to use the BCC in Outlook 2007, Windows Mail (Vista version of Outlook Express and same method as Outlook Express), Mozilla Thunderbird, Yahoo email, and Gmail.
Please, watch this video, learn the technique, use the technique, and forward this tip to all your friends using the BCC method!