Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Friday, May 26, 2023
• Warning: Your password manager is dangerous
• How to enable WiFi Calling on your iPhone
• Scam alert: How to identify fraudulent and/or dangerous websites
• Did you know volcanoes can produce their own lightning bolts?
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Friday, August 26, 2022
• New LastPass hack highlights the dangers of password managers
• Q&A: Is it safe to span two hard drives to make one larger drive?
• How to remotely log out of LinkedIn on all devices at once
• Video: Danny MacAskill’s best amazing bike tricks
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Saturday, April 23, 2022
• Why you might need to replace a perfectly good cell phone
• Warning: Password Managers put your online accounts at risk.
• Q&A: Did I just completely fry my PC?
• Time-lapse video: Southern Lights over Tasmania
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
It’s no secret that being connected to the Internet makes our computers and mobile devices vulnerable to hackers.
Passwords have long been used to protect our online accounts from those threats, but those once-trusted passwords are becoming less effective by the day as hacking methods become increasingly sophisticated.
In short, a simple password that’s just a few characters long offers very little real protection against the sophisticated hacking methods that are being used today. [Read more…]
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Sunday, January 9, 2022.
• Two great alternatives to dangerous password managers
• Q&A: Can you turn off Facebook’s voting reminders?
• Q&A: Why can’t my daughter use her own router in her dorm room?
• Q&A: Why did they use to add lead to paint?
• Info about my photo / file recovery service