Remote Tech Support Scams

If you’ve used my services, you know what Remote Tech Support entails. With my guidance, you’ll download or launch a program that allows me to inhabit your computer. While we talk on the phone, I get to view your screen and move your cursor around. It’s like I’m Casper the Friendly Ghost, haunting your computer … Read more

JustWatch – The Streaming Guide

If you use various streaming services, JustWatch is a useful tool to consider. Search for any movie or show, and JustWatch will tell you where you might stream it. You can see all of your Rent and Buy options, as well as prices, and click through to any provider you want to patronize. If you … Read more

Back Tap on Smartphones

iPhones Most iPhones have a largely unknown feature called Back Tap. If you turn on this special ability, Back Tap will let you trigger an app or function when you tap the back of your iPhone. Back Tap can open Settings, or the Facebook app, or your Camera, whatever you yoke it to. It’s like … Read more

Vehicle History Check Scams

Selling a vehicle online? Be on the lookout for the Vehicle History Check Scam! The Setup The scam starts with a potential buyer, texting or emailing you about your used vehicle. They will be very interested in closing the sale, will probably not haggle, and offer to pay your price in cash. Sounds really good, … Read more

Google Products, Past & Present

If you want to see all of the different apps and services Google has to offer, check out their Products page. You might be surprised at all that’s in there. That said, Google develops lots of things that don’t make it. They get “sunsetted” or retired or axed. If you are curious about those, check … Read more

Free At-Home COVID Tests

UPDATE as of 9/27/2024: just like last year, our government has free at-home COVID tests for you. Get 4 tests through www.covidtests.gov at no cost (even shipping is free). Protip: There may be other methods, local to you, for obtaining free COVID tests. For example, my local library gives them out to patrons. You might … Read more

Mail2World’s 2022 Email Outage

On Wednesday, 1/12/2022, an email provider named Mail2World disappeared from the internet. They’re a modest company based in California that provides email for millions of people worldwide. They handle the email service for many different ISPs (including Shentel, Buckeye Broadband, and SRT), as well as for individuals and small businesses. Information on this outage was … Read more

Quickbooks Desktop Tool Hub

If your Quickbooks desktop software develops a problem, chances are this free download can help. Intuit has created the Quickbooks Desktop Tool Hub program to automagically fix common glitches in their software. For example, if you cannot make a PDF invoice, or if your networked computer stopped sharing its company file: the Desktop Tool hub … Read more

Lack of Policing on Facebook

Yesterday, I reported a scam from a Facebook group. And an autoreply quickly arrived, stating that their “technology” had reviewed my request and found nothing to act on. I then chose the option to Request a Second Review, because they got it wrong. That got me this disappointing response: This suggests that they put more … Read more