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September, 2024
Issue #897: Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2024
Q: Help me Mr. Geek, you’re my only hope. That’s a little overdramatic, but I do have a tech problem I’m hoping you can help me with. I have a Steam Deck, a Linux-based hand-held gaming PC that has a design similar to a Nintendo Switch. The Deck is designed to work with Steam’s own […]
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Issue #896: September 22-28, 2024
Q: Recently I have been getting annoying McAfee pop ups. How can I stop them? They popup on Chrome and Edge. They state “VIRUS FOUND” or Critical Error found virus. or System Error, etc. – John P.Crestview, Florida A: Well, John, have you considered that maybe McAfee is just doing its job? Perhaps it found […]
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Issue #895: September 15-21, 2024
Q: Because our local newspaper raised the rates so high for a printed edition, we decided to go digital with them. We even purchased a 2nd laptop so two of us could read the paper without having to wait on one another. The “older” HP opens up right away while the much, much newer one […]
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Issue #894a: September 8-14, 2024
Geek Note: This is a very special issue of It’s Geek To Me! Read on to find out why. I know that many of you have been missing the column in the Northwest Florida Daily News, the Destin Log, and other publications in the (Florida) panhandle. I know, because of the e-mails I’ve received from […]
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Issue #894: September 8-14, 2024
Q: Cox Cable transition of emails to Yahoo email caused my unsent emails in my Outbox on Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max to disappear. Is there any way to retrieve those unsent emails from Cox or to find them on Yahoo’s email system? I had unsent emails in my iPhone Outbox when Cox shut off […]
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Issue #893: September 1–7, 2024
Q: This is about moving email from Cox to Yahoo. I moved everything I could to an Outlook email account before the Cox switch. I was going to run both for a while. When I went to setup Yahoo (using the old Cox email) they tried to force me to use Yahoo software on my […]
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