More “How Not To Get Scammed” (emails with attachments, phishing…)

Posted by jadmin on May 14, 2024 in How-To, News, Scams, Tips, Uncategorized |

This is a copy of another recent email I came across in my SPAM folder. It got filtered out as Spam but I am copying the text just in case for people to see what these types of email phishing scams look like. Everything is fake. It is designed to appear as an invoice from […]

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HOW TO NOT GET SCAMMED (Phishing Email Attachment from “Geek Squad”)

Posted by jadmin on April 17, 2024 in How-To, Mac, News, Scams, Tips |

How do you not get scammed? You have to have your antenna up at all times. For example: This is a typical Phishing attempt, an email you get which has an attachment. This is one I actually got which I am showing so if you see something like this, you are aware of it and […]

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Why you should not charge your phone to 100%

Posted by jadmin on February 17, 2024 in Fix, Hardware, How-To, iPhone, Maintenance, Tips |

Most people don’t realize that to get the maximum life out of of their battery in their iPhone (or other phone) you should not just charge it all the way to 100%. Actually you should not charge it past the 80% mark. Oh and try to never let it run down all the way either; […]

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Why everyone needs to own a wired mouse

Posted by jadmin on June 14, 2021 in Fix, Hardware, How-To, Mac, software, Tips |

Why do I suggest that everyone have a wired USB mouse somewhere “just in case for emergencies”? The answer is simple. Once in a blue moon it can be a life-saver and save you a lot of time trying to get your normal wireless mouse working when that goes wonky. So I consider having even an old […]

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RE: “Important policy changes for Google Account storage” (Do Some Cleanup Help)

Posted by jadmin on December 10, 2020 in Fix, How-To, Maintenance, Tips |

If you have a Google / Gmail account you probably got this message recently to Dear Google User regarding “Important policy changes for Google Account storage”. Google is changing some policies about storage. We are writing to let you know that we recently announced new storage policies for GoogleAccounts using Gmail, Google Drive (including Google Docs, […]

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Microsoft Office on Apple M1 Macs

Posted by jadmin on December 8, 2020 in Hardware, How-To, IOS, M1, Mac, Tips |

I had a client recently who bought a new M1 Macbook Pro. He needed some help because he said his MS Office / Word application running on his M1 and Big Sur would not authenticate. I screen shared with him and we tried to uninstall and reinstall MS Office and still would not authenticate. Office […]

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HP Printer “Malware” Pop Up (MacOS Catalina)

Posted by jadmin on October 28, 2020 in Catalina, Fix, How-To, Mac |

I had two clients who both came to me today separately with the exact same problem, they called me with news that a pop-up had suddenly appeared on their computer screen which said it found “malware”. This is the PopUp (below) which as you can see says: “HPDeviceMonitoring.framework” will damage your computer.         […]

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How To Call Block A Phone Number (using a Panasonic phone or iPhone)

Posted by jadmin on October 23, 2020 in Fix, Hardware, How-To, Mac, Tips |

How To Call Block A Phone Number (using a Panasonic phone) If you are getting annoying calls (robo-calls, unwanted sales calls, etc) one thing you can try is blocking the number so if they ever call back, it will ring once and stop. Here’s how to using a Panasonic phone; Other phones may use slightly […]

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How to use Google Photos to back up your iPhone photos for FREE !

Posted by jadmin on August 16, 2019 in Backup, How-To, IOS, Mac, Maintenance, Tips |

Did you know that you can get FREE backup protection from ever losing your photos? If your phone gets lost, stolen, falls in the toilet, gets run over by a truck, etc….. you can just get the GOOGLE PHOTOS app, which is free and comes with unlimited free storage for ALL your photos, on all […]

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How to backup your iPhone photos using Google Photos (FREE!)

Posted by jadmin on August 8, 2019 in How-To, Mac, Maintenance |

Excellent piece in Macworld explaining how to backup all your iPhone’s photos using the Google Photos (free) app. Very easy to follow. Click the link or image to read  on Macworld. https://www.macworld.com/article/3429589/how-to-use-google-photos-to-backup-your-iphone.html

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