Recently, there was a podcast that I wanted to view. Yes, I said view. I was using my laptop and wanted to read the podcast instead of listening to it. A few websites show transcribed versions of podcasts, but none had a transcribed version of […]
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Update 6/23/2023 This article explains how to whitelist a website with an ad blocker running at the browser level, where most have an ad blocker set. However, an ad blocker can also be set elsewhere. Some Windows security software packages have an ad blocker included.
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Jim Hillier recently wrote an article explaining firewalls. In it, he posed the question, Is Windows Firewall good enough? Jim concluded that while a business may need an expensive enterprise-level firewall, the included free firewall is fine for the average Windows PC user. It is
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Overview Using email aliases protects your privacy and your security. When using an email alias, a hacker cannot learn your real email address or any other details about you from a data breach. In addition, email aliases can reduce SPAM. In How To Minimize The
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Overview March 14, 3/14, or 3.14 is Pi Day. Those who live in countries that write the date backward may disagree and claim that Pi Day is 22 July (22 divided by 7). When I was young, I found the history of pi interesting, and
Overview Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities developed by Microsoft for use with the Windows operating system. These programs add or change features to improve productivity or add customization. A while ago, I wrote about Microsoft PowerToys and my Top 5 Microsoft PowerToys. In
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Overview I was working on a Word document and stepped away from my computer, and when I came back hours later, I saw that my Word document had not been automatically saved. Incredibly, Word (and Excel) will only AutoSave to Microsoft OneDrive or SharePoint. Despite displaying
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This is Part 2 of a 2-Part article. Please be sure to read Part 1 first: At the end of Part 1, I posed the questions: How do you create a strong password? How do you measure password strength? How strong is strong enough? Please
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This is Part 1 of a 2-Part article. In Part 1, I’ll explain why most passwords are not very strong and the methodology hackers use to crack passwords. In Part 2, I’ll explain how you can create passwords that are much harder to crack, how
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For decades, anyone working with text data in Excel has been limited to the same old functions for separating or parsing text strings. But recently, Excel added three new dynamic array text functions. And they are awesome! The new functions are designed to manipulate text
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Ok, so technically, someone tried to hack into my home network. Although they did not get in, I thought it would be informative to go over what happened. In this article, I will explain the different methods used to get into my network, what the
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This is Part 3 of a 3-part review. Make sure to check out all 3 Parts for the full review. Part 3 – Hasleo Test Results & Verdict Test Methodology – Backups My main interest was testing the image and image restore capabilities of Hasleo
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If you have family or work correspondences in countries around the world, it is nice to know their local time. Two world clocks can be added to the Taskbar’s local clock in Windows 10 and 11 for a total of three clocks. To add this,
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This is part 2 of a 3-part review. Make sure to check out all 3 parts for the full review. Part 2 – Hasleo Restore Features & Tools The navigation bar’s Restore tab allows the selection of an existing task to restore or to browse
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