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My “Pick” for today is this inexpensive, but very capable Beelink Mini PC.
This is an excellent desktop PC for the money. It comes with plenty of RAM, and AMD Ryzen 5500U CPU, 500 GB of super-fast SSD storage and Window 11 Pro.
This machine is highly-rated by current users, it’s very affordable and it has a tiny footprint (about the size of a brick).
Click here to check out the Beelink Mini PC at Amazon.
Today’s POTD features the picturesque “Three Peaks of Lavaredo”, a very distinctive natural feature in the Dolomites region of Italy. 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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October’s winner will receive a fantastic Lenovo Idea Tab 11″ Tablet with Pen.
This premium Android tablet can do most anything you need a tablet to do (and you’ll love the large 11 inch screen).
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The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on November 30 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.
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As you probably know, scammers love using phishing emails to trick people into handing over their personal information and the login info for their online accounts.
The thing is, scammers are targeting potential victims via their cell phones too.
In fact, there’s a very dangerous text message phishing scam making the rounds again right now that’s snagging a lot of victims because it’s so easy to fall for. [Read more…]
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Question from Travis: I’m building a cabin on the back side of my parents’ ranch that my wife and I will be staying in several times a year when we visit them.
We’ll be staying several days on each trip so I’ll need to be able to work from the cabin. And it looks like that might be a problem. [Read more…]
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I recently posted this article explaining why you really need to stop using passwords on your accounts and start using passkeys instead.
That post prompted quite a few messages from folks asking variations of the following questions:
1 – What makes passkeys more secure than passwords?
2 – How difficult is it to set up a passkey?
Well, the answer to the first question is simple: [Read more…]