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Q: I recently purchased a new laptop, and I am just about finished setting it up and migrating all of my data from my old computer. I am not sure if this is relevant to my issue. I tried to access my online statement from Best Buy today which is actually a Citicard account. However, […]

Q: I just read your latest column and I hate that you’re falling victim to the multitude of changes that the print media world is undergoing. I wanted to pass along the questions that came to mind…  As a constant Microsoft user at work, I collaborate frequently with other users on shared files on our […]

Q: I recently read your column about using the Snipping tool in Win 11 (Geek Note: I.G.T.M. #972, Mar 8, 2026) and its limitations were discussed. I have struggled with how to do a scrolling capture with this tool and can’t figure it out. Will it accomplish a scrolling capture or is there a third-party […]

Q: What is this I hear in the news about the FCC banning routers that are manufactured overseas?  – Jim R.Freeport, Florida A: Glad you asked, Jim.  This is a rather important issue that will affect pretty much everybody with a home internet connection at some point in the not-so-distant future.  In this Geek’s opinion, […]

Have you ever searched for yourself online and found your home address, cell phone number, and a list of your relatives staring back at you from a site you’ve never visited? If that made your skin crawl, welcome to the club. You’ve just encountered the work of a Data Broker. These companies or individuals are […]

Q:  I have an iPhone, and I use iMessage for almost everything.  I figured it was safe because of the “blue bubbles.” Hey, it’s Apple, right? But, my brother, who uses an Android, keeps telling me my texts are wide open to hackers. Is he right? Should I be worried about my data being stolen […]

Geek Note: A couple of months ago I answered a question from reader Paul D. about robocalls (I.G.T.M. #967, February 1, 2026). It has recently come to my attention that not everybody is as savvy as Paul in being able to detect and identify a call as actually being a robocall.  Let’s consider this week’s […]

Q: This is a real-world example of phishing experience. My spouse peripheral and I returned from a 50-minute absence yesterday to find her desktop screen actually “doing things.” She exclaimed, “Hey, someone’s using my computer!” I looked, and, someone WAS doing so!!!!! The cursor was moving, menus were dropping down, windows were being opened, just […]

Dear Readers:  There have been a lot of changes to It’s Geek To Me since Issue #1 premiered way back on July 26, 2007.  The weekday the column publishes in the local newspaper changed multiple times, the location within the paper changed from it being in the “Next” magazine insert to the business section, to, […]

Q: Beyond the obligatory and ubiquitous “Thanks Bill,” in your digitally-enhanced Genuinely Intelligent (GI) view, why oh why can’t Windows Snipping Tool’s frame size be set in the registry? No matter what trick I apply each time I use the &^%$ thing its size grows, its position changes, and I am forced to manually resize […]