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Think password managers are safe? Truth be told, they’re quite dangerous.

Posted on February 12, 2018

Many of the web’s most widely respected tech experts recommend using a password manager such as KeePass to store all of your online passwords. I don’t recommend them however, and after reading this post you will understand why.

A typical password manager will store all of your passwords in an encrypted database. In order to “open” the database to extract a needed password you’ll have to enter a master password.

This sounds like a great idea for storing and protecting a bunch of unique passwords without having to remember them all, and the concept is indeed a great one. But unfortunately it is seriously flawed. Here’s why: [Read more…]

Add 2 super-fast USB 3.0 ports to your PC for the cost of a pizza!

Posted on February 10, 2018

A while back I wrote a post explaining why it makes sense to upgrade your PC to USB 3.0 along with instructions for doing it. In a nutshell, you simply purchase and install an inexpensive USB 3.0 upgrade card.

Now’s a great time to do it because you can pick up an awesome Anker Uspeed USB 3.0 PCI-E Express Card (#ad) that will add 2 super fast USB 3.0 ports to your Desktop PC for about the cost of a pizza! [Read more…]

Heads-Up: Your PC will have to have Windows 10 if you want to run Microsoft Office 2019

Posted on February 2, 2018

According to a new blog post from Microsoft the upcoming release of MS Office 2019 won’t be available for computers running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.

In a nutshell, if you want to use Office 2019 and your computer isn’t running Windows 10 you’ll either have to upgrade your PC to Windows 10 or buy a new computer that already has it pre-installed.

You can read the details for yourself at the link in the first paragraph, but here’s the relevant info: [Read more…]

Microsoft has ended Mainstream Support for Windows 8.1

Posted on January 11, 2018

Do you still have a laptop or desktop PC that’s running Windows 8.1?

If so, you should know that Microsoft ended the “Mainstream Support” cycle for that version of Windows on January 9.

In a nutshell, that means they won’t be releasing any new feature updates for Windows 8.1.

However, they will continue releasing security updates and major bug fixes throughout the “Extended Support” cycle (which is scheduled to end on January 10, 2023). [Read more…]