How to Find Your Facebook Payment Settings to Remove a Payment Method from Facebook
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How to Find Your Facebook Payment Settings to Remove a Payment Method from Facebook

Need to change a payment method on Facebook, cancel a Facebook payment on Paypal, or just find your Facebook payment settings so that you can revoke and remove a credit card, debit card, or Paypal account? It is so frustrating when you are trying to remove a payment card, Paypal access, or other payment method from a service to which you had previously given it, only to be unable to find where and how to do it, even though they made it so very easy to give that payment information to them in the first place. Here’s how to find your payment methods on Facebook so that you can revoke and remove them.

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10 Tips for How to Collect Email Addresses for Email Marketing

We are often asked how to get email addresses for email marketing for free, specifically the best way to collect email addresses on a website. So here are 10 tips for how to collect email addresses on a website. For how to collect emails without a website, the answer is you need a website; fortunately that’s really easy to do these days.

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How to Search Mail Rules on a Mac

If you’re wondering why you can’t figure out how to search mail rules on your Mac, it’s because Apple has not included a way to search your email rules for the Mac Mail app. Stupid, right? You would think that with all the other things that Apple gets right, something as basic and obvious as a way to search mail rules would be a no-brainer. Anyways, if you need to search your mail rules, here’s how to do it.

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Here’s How to Find and View Google Cached Pages Results in 2022

Are you frustrated at finding Google cached pages gone? They aren’t really gone, but where to find Google cached pages is now inexplicably hidden. Happily, while the Google cached page arrow has disappeared, you can still access Google’s cached version of a search result page, you just need to know where Google has hidden access to cached pages. So here’s how to find and view cached pages in Google search results.

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Mac Finder Slow or Not Responding? What to do With A Frozen Finder

Don’t you just hate it when the Finder on your Mac freezes up? It’s an unfortunate situation, one we all know far too well – You’re caught up in the hunt, command-tabbing between apps and windows and spaces all willy-nilly, looking for the one .csv file you need to send your boss before you’re done, oh so done with your workday.

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How to Google Like a (Internet) Gangsta

Google has become an important tool for most people. Unfortunately, this tool’s power levels tend to take a sharp blow in the average user’s hands (fingertips?).

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How to Identify False Information Online

Generally, our thoughts, feelings, and actions are influenced heavily by the information we consume. This information can be discovered by us, it can be presented to us, or we can consume it passively. When was the last time that you didn’t weigh the pros and cons of a major decision?

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How to Customize the Toolbar in a Reply Email in Apple Mac Mail

Nearly everyone knows how to customize the tool bar for the Mac Mail app – that is, they know how to customize the primary email tool bar on their Macbook or Mac.. But when you are editing a reply email, the tool bar for that reply email is different than the primary tool bar. Here’s how to customize the reply toolbar in Mac Mail app. This information is current as of Big Sur; YMMV (your milage may vary) with other versions.

How to Close a Tab in Chrome, Brave, Firefox, and Safari When You Can’t See the X at the Top
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How to Close a Tab in Chrome, Brave, Firefox, and Safari When You Can’t See the X at the Top

A common thing people ask me is “why can’t I close a browser tab when I have more than 10 open?”. You know, you’re on a good wikipedia rabbit-hole, opening up new tabs left and right, and all of a sudden, the tabs stop even saying the name of the site – they just become little icons, oh, god, so many little icons.

How to Pay for Your Own Apple Purchases When On Someone Else's Apple Family Plan
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How to Pay for Your Own Apple Purchases When On Someone Else’s Apple Family Plan

Do a search for anything resembling “Paying for my own purchases in Apple family sharing” or “How to use my own credit card for app store purchases as a family sharing member?” and you are likely to get discouraged; the vast majority of sites, including Apple’s own, say that basically you can’t do it. Or they tell you that you can, but you need an Apple gift card to do it. Neither of these are accurate. You can pay for your own purchases, using your own credit card or debit card, even when you are on someone else’s Apple Family Sharing plan, you just need to know how to do it, and it just takes a little bit of pre-planning.

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How to Know When It’s Time to Take Your Laptop in for Repair Instead of Doing it Yourself

It could be just a routine maintenance. Or maybe, you’d only JUST gotten the wrapping off this computer. Otherwise, perhaps you’ve kicked your heels at the cost of a much-needed upgrade, thinking “I can make this one last til next month” (forgetting you’ve been telling yourself that for more months than you can count, if you’re anything like me!). Many have never considered the possibility that they may be just as able to fix their own device as the guy on the other side of the counter in the computer shop, but the truth is, they may oftentimes be even more able to. But if you’ve already been down this path, maybe you’re wondering when is enough enough, and when do you hire the big guns at the computer repair shop? Wonder no more, we’ve got the biggest signs you’re in over your head.

How to Stop Mac Messages from Popping Out and Opening a New Window When You Click on a Message
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How to Stop Mac Messages from Popping Out and Opening a New Window When You Click on a Message

It has been the bane of Mac users’ existences ever since Big Sur: how to prevent Messages from opening a new chat window when you click on a new message that has arrived? Starting with Big Sur, double clicking, or even just newly clicking, on a new message in Messages (formerly iMessage) when transitioning from any other app causes the new message to be opened in a new window, rather than it just going to the message within the Messages list. This happens whether you have your trackpad set to “tap to click” or you have your trackpad set to require an actual physical click (well, even those aren’t actually physical, so we guess that we should say “actual simulated physical click”).

How to Set the Background Cover Image in Your Paypal Account
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How to Set the Background Logo Profile Picture and Your Statement Name in Your Paypal Account

If you use Paypal at all for business then you know how important it is that your Paypal profile picture be correct. This is the cover background image at your paypal.me link, as well the logo that appears on your Paypal invoices. So why Paypal has made it so darned hard to find where you set it or change it is beyond us, especially because where you change your business image is also where you set or change how you show up on your customers’ credit card and bank statements, which we think is pretty darned important. Which is why we’re writing it up for you!

Here's How to Send a Link to Your Browser on Your Computer from Your iPhone!
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Here’s How to Send a Link to Your Browser on Your Computer from Your iPhone!

You know how sometimes you are looking at your browser on your phone, and want to send the link to yourself so that you can open it in your browser on your computer? How often have you thought “I wish I could just transmit the link to my computer and it would automatically open the page in my browser”? Well read on!

Does Your Dyson Air Purifier Still Show "F" After You Change the Filter? Here's How to Reset the Dyson Air Filter After Changing the Filter
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Is Your Dyson Air Purifier Still Showing “F” After You Replace the Filter? Here’s How to Reset the Dyson Air Filter After You Change the Filter

If you have a Dyson Air Purifier, and have just replaced the filter after being told by the flashing “F” display that you need to change the filter, you may be frustrated to find that the “F” is still yelling at you after you have already changed the filter! If your Dyson air filter is still displaying the “F” after you replace the filter and put a new filter in there, and you’re banging your head against the wall wondering “How do I reset my Dyson F filter warning?”, we may be able to help you (so stop banging your head against the wall, because you’ll only hurt your head, and annoy the wall).