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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Monday, December 11, 2023
Topics covered in this issue…
• Improve your typing skills with this great tool
• Q&A: How do I delete my LastPass account?
• Review: Click Action Traffic (website traffic vendor)
• Lightning strikes the earth up to 100 times every second – of every day
• My Monthly Tech Giveaway is back – Brother DCPL2550DW Multifunction Laser Printer
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Monthly Tech Giveaway….
We have a winner for November…
Congratulations to Sheryl N. from Springdale, Arkansas for winning the fantastic Brother multifunction laser printer in November’s Tech Tips Giveaway.
December’s winner will receive an Acer Aspire 3 A314-23P-R3QA Slim Laptop. Click here for details.
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Today’s featured tech tip….
Improve your typing skills with this great tool
Whether you use a computer all day at work or just for an hour or two at home in the evenings to catch up on Facebook or Twitter, it really helps to have at least a few basic typing skills.
While you don’t need to be an expert 70 words-per-minute typist, knowing your way around a keyboard can definitely make your computer time more efficient and more enjoyable.
If you’d like to brush up on your typing skills there are many good online typing practice and testing sites online, and most of them allow you to access their tools at no charge.
One excellent example is Typing.com, a site that provides a graphically-oriented set of instructional aids that do a great job at helping you develop a wide range of typing skills, all the way from Beginner to Advanced.
Note: You don’t have to create an account at Typing.com just to take the online lessons. Since the site is advertiser-supported you can just head straight to the “Lessons” section and get right to it.
However, creating an account will allow you to track your progress and easily pick up where you left off.
My recommendation: Don’t bother creating an account. You can track your progress yourself by writing everything down on an index card.
Always remember that every online account you create becomes yet another account that can potentially get hacked or otherwise compromised. Just sayin’.
To get started without creating an account, click here and select a skill level in the left-hand column, then click the Start button that corresponds to the first lesson.
Note: Some lessons begin with a short video offering a bit of background and general information pertaining to that lesson. You can either watch those videos or click the Skip video button and go straight to the lesson.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• Q&A: How do I delete my LastPass account?
This post has step-by-step instructions (and a recommendation).
• Review: Click Action Traffic (website traffic vendor)
My thoughts about this service…
• Click here to see today’s ‘Picture of the Day’.
Every morning I post a new photo that I find inspiring, intriguing, or just plain beautiful to look at. Jumpstart your day by checking it out.
Rick’s Daily Pick…
CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD3 Intelligent 1500VA/900W LCD UPS
Looking for an uninterruptible power supply that’s capable of keeping several devices powered up during temporary power outages? This is one of my favorites.
Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Lightning strikes the earth up to 100 times every second – of every day
That’s a LOT of lightning strikes!
Tech news that caught my eye…
• Apple’s response to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’
• Senators unveil live ticketing reform bill aimed at bots and resellers
• WhatsApp rolls out disappearing voice messages
• YouTube now lets creators pause comments on videos
• This AI can pick up passwords from the sound of your keystrokes
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Rick Rouse
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