Rick's Daily Tips

How to enable Two-Factor authentication on your LastPass account

Posted on January 17, 2016

Regular readers of this blog know I’m not a huge fan of password managers, but many folks seem to to love them. And that’s fine – to each his/her own as they say.

If you happen to use a password manager, there’s a good chance that you us LastPass, the most popular password manager out there by far.

If so, I strongly recommend that you enable two-factor authentication to prevent crooks and hackers from breaking in to your account and stealing all of your important passwords.

Follow the steps below to set up two-factor authentication on your LastPass account: [Read more…]

A massive 13TB SSD is slated to hit the market next month

Posted on January 15, 2016

fixstars-ssd Last July I wrote a post about how Solid State Drives (SSDs) would soon be competing with traditional hard drives in terms of storage capacity and cost, and sure enough, they are starting to do just that.

With that in mind, it appears that SSDs are now ballooning in capacity as well.

The Japanese-based Fixstars Corporation is planning to release a massive SSD in February 2016 that contains a mind-boggling 13TB of storage space.

Yes, you read that right: That’s indeed 13TB – over twice the size of current SSDs. [Read more…]

Q&A: Windows 10 keeps nagging me for feedback. How can I stop it?

Posted on January 14, 2016

Question from Tilda J.: I finally got around to upgrading my computer to Windows 10, and at least once a day I get a message asking me how I like it.

I haven’t used Windows 10 long enough to form a firm opinion, but all these nagging feedback messages aren’t helping me form a good one.

How can I stop Windows 10 from pestering me for feedback?

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]

Amazon Prime members now get 20% off newly released video games

Posted on January 13, 2016

amazon-prime-logo2 The folks at Amazon just keep adding more perks for their Amazon Prime members to enjoy.

In my opinion the free 2-day shipping on all Prime-eligible products alone makes signing up for Prime an amazing deal, but all the “extras” they keep adding just make it even better.

They have just announced the latest perk for Prime members, and if you’re a gamer you’re going to love it. You can now get 20% off on all physical video games that are sold and shipped by Amazon! [Read more…]

Still using Windows 8? You need to upgrade to either Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 ASAP!

Posted on January 12, 2016

Microsoft has announced that as of today they’re no longer be supporting Windows 8 with Security patches and bug fixes.

In essence, the folks in Redmond are abandoning Windows 8 and leaving its users to fend for themselves in the wild, wild west of the Internet.

This essentially means if you’re running still running Windows 8 on your PC you’ll need to upgrade to either Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 ASAP in order to keep your PC safe from future malware attacks. [Read more…]