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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).

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How to Find the A—- Model Number on Your MacBook Air or MacBook Pro

If you have ever searched for Macbook accessories which require a certain fit depending on what model Macbook Air or Macbook Pro you have, you’ve run into descriptions saying something like “will fit A2337 A2179 A1932”, or a similar combination of a letter followed by some numbers. These are the model numbers of the various Mac Macbook laptops which the accessory, such as a laptop case or a keyboard condom, will fit. But where the heck do you find your own model number on your own Macbook? Here’s how.

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How to Remove Personal Pictures from Your Alexa Echo Show or Look

If you have ever been surprised to see images of yourself showing up on the screen of your Alexa Echo Show or Echo Look, you are probably trying to figure out how to remove those images, and you’re also probably realizing that it’s not easy to find that information. So let us make it easy for you: here is how to delete those personal pictures from an Alexa Echo device.

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How to Cancel a Cinemark Movie Club Membership Account

Here’s how to cancel a Cinemark Movie Club account. Don’t you just hate when a service makes it so very easy to sign up, and then makes it nearly impossible to figure out how to cancel the service? Us too, and that’s why we figured it out and are sharing this information with you!

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How to Completely and Permanently Delete an App from Your iPhone

If you’re reading this because you’re wondering how to permanently and completely remove an app from your iPhone, it’s likely that you’ve had the following experience: you deleted the app from your iPhone (you know that you did!), and yet during your next app update there it is, back on your phone, as if reanimated from the dead! If you’re wondering why that darned app keeps coming back, here’s what may be going on.

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How to Have Your Email Address and Other Personal Data Removed from Square in 2021

It can be frustrating trying to figure out how to remove your email address from Square, especially if you never gave it to them in the first place, and you are trying to invoke a ‘right to be forgotten’.

How to Change or Reset Your Country Location for Your GoDaddy Account
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How to Change or Reset Your Country Location for Your GoDaddy Account

If GoDaddy has changed the country in which they have your account located, and you are looking to set or reset it to the correct country, here’s how.

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Amazon Sidewalk Uses Your Alexa Devices to Share Your Internet with Your Neighbors Unless You Opt Out and Disable It

Amazon Sidewalk automatically uses a bit of your wireless network to create a mesh network with nearby Alexa and Ring devices. Amazon is enabling it automatically for all devices (old and new), so you have to disable it if you won’t want your neighbors’ Amazon devices using your wireless network.

How to Send Yourself an Email Reminder at a Future Date
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How to Send Yourself an Email Reminder at a Future Date

Send yourself an email reminder or have an email from someone else re-sent to you at a future time and date! It works with any mail program!

How to Get Total of Visible Column and Count of Items in a Column in Numbers Spreadsheet
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How to Easily Get Count and Total Sum of Items in a Column in Numbers Spreadsheet

Here is how to search in Numbers, and how to have Numbers give you a total of the sum of your search and a row count of your search results.

How to Cancel Amazon Television Channel Subscriptions
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How to Cancel Amazon Television Channel Subscriptions

Here is how to cancel an Amazon Prime tv channel subscription, like Acorn or Comedy Central, because Amazon doesn’t make it obvious.