Email hoax (“I was robbed while travelling”)

If you get an email like this, your friend's account has been compromised. "I'm writing this with tears in my eyes, I and my family presently on a short trip to London, United Kingdom. Unfortunately, I was robbed in the hotel I booked, all my valuables which includes cash, mobile phones were stolen during the…
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Restricting other people’s Facebook app permissions

Added a new game to FB and it's flooding your friend's News Feed with "__ plays this; you should, too!" messages? No need to let a silly game spam your friends and family. Go into Settings (upper-right)...Apps (left margin). You may find some old apps that you can remove entirely. But, if you click the…
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Phone rebooting over and over again?

A reminder to all that your phone crashing might not be the fault of your phone but its memory card. Woke up at 5:30am to notice my phone's screen on and it being in a reboot loop. {sigh} At one point, I noticed "You have ejected your storage card." Popped open the back, ejected the…
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