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My “Pick” for today is this awesome GiTenvy 2025 Upgraded Design Comfortable Seat Cover.
Is your car seat too cold in winter and too hot in summer? This fantastic cooling and heating seat cover will solve both of those problems and give you relaxing muscle massages to boot.
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Today’s POTD features an up-close view of a tiny, but beautiful hummingbird hovering in flight. I hope you like it.
Have lots of treasured photos of your own that you’d love to display in your home but you have limited wall space? A digital picture frame (#ad) is an excellent solution. Check them out!
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December’s winner will receive a fantastic GMKtec Mini Desktop Computer.
It’s amazing how much computing power they’re packing into such tiny packages these days. True tower desktop power in a small case that’s about the size of a brick.
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The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on December 31 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.
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A while back I wrote a post explaining how to give an old PC new life by replacing Windows with Linux as a means of extending the useful life of older PCs.
After that post was published I received a number of emails asking for a list of Linux programs that can replace the Windows programs they’d leaving behind if they made the switch.
I decided that it might be a good idea to publish that list in its own blog post, and here it is: [Read more…]
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Burglars love targeting houses where it’s pretty obvious that no one’s at home.
After all, there’s less chance of them getting caught when there’s nobody there to catch them.
Are you worried about your home being burglarized when you’re at work, on vacation, or otherwise away from home?
If so, there are several things you can do to make it appear to potential burglars that your home is indeed occupied at all times – and prevent them from breaking in: [Read more…]
Social engineering rarely starts with a message. It usually begins long before that, when an attacker quietly studies a person’s public digital trail.
Old posts, forgotten bios, casual comments, and hobby updates combine into a surprisingly detailed picture. This information can then be used to craft messages that feel real, familiar, and trustworthy.
The less a stranger can learn from someone’s online presence, the harder it becomes to manipulate them. This is why reducing a digital footprint is one of the most practical ways to stay protected.
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