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Are you thinking about starting a blog to share your thoughts and experiences with the world?
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When I send out these newsletter emails I try my very best to give you some useful tips and information in each and every one of them. My number one goal is to help you, my wonderful reader, make better use of today’s technology. [Read more…]
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If you’re like most folks these days, your PC’s hard drive is probably loaded with tons of photos, videos, music, Office documents and other files that would be difficult, if not impossible to replace should something happen to the drive.
Today I’m going to discuss several methods of recovering your precious files should that ever happen to you.
Of course the easiest way to recover one or more lost files is to simply retrieve them from a backup. Luckily, it’s easy to make multiple backup copies of our files these days by copying them onto inexpensive USB flash drives and external hard drives. [Read more…]
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Well, the hackers and scammers of the world just never seem to let up.
In fact, this past week was a nightmare for the hundreds of thousands of institutions and individuals who were hit by the massive “WannaCry” ransomware attack.
Ransomware is perhaps the biggest threat facing computer users today, but it’s actually pretty easy to protect your PC from getting hit by it. And luckily, it’s even easier to ensure that you won’t lose your irreplaceable files if you do end up getting hit.
First, lets talk about some things you can do to protect your PC from ransomware attacks. [Read more…]
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If you own an Apple device you probably also have an iCloud account that contains a major portion of your digital life. Have you ever considered what could happen if your iCloud were to be hacked?
As with most online accounts these days, you can lock down your iCloud account with Two-Factor Authentication to ensure that no one will be able to log into your account and/or access your stored information unless they have physical possession of your phone.
It’s quick and easy to enable it using either your Mac (running OSX El Capitan or later) or your iPhone/iPad (running iOS 9 or later). Just follow the steps below for your particular device. [Read more…]