Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Monday, February 6, 2023
• Why you MUST remember your LastPass master password
• Tips for creating and storing your computer’s backups
• Q&A: Can I block a website from appearing in my search results?
• Video: “Ever Higher”
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Monday, August 22, 2022
• How to set a minimum password length for local Windows user accounts
• Why you should always redeem your gift cards ASAP
• Q&A: How can I change where Windows 10 saves new documents?
• Video: Check out this fantastic $10K tiny house
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Friday, January 7, 2022.
• New malware puts your stored passwords at serious risk
• How to disable the ‘Caps Lock’ key on your Windows keyboard
• Q&A: Can I login to Windows 11 without having to enter a password?
• Can you imagine living your entire life seeing everything in “black and white”?
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
One of the most difficult tasks in computing is choosing a password that is both hard for hackers to crack and easy to remember.
It’s quite quite easy to do one or the other, but doing both at the same time can be a headache. But it doesn’t have to be.
Lots of folks rely on password managers to help keep their online accounts secure, but I don’t recommend that because using a password manager puts your entire digital life at risk.
The good news is you don’t need to use a password manager in order to create extremely secure (and unique) passwords for each of your online accounts – and remember easily them!
This post explains how to do just that. [Read more…]
Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Update for Friday, November 5, 2021.
• How to view every password that Google is storing on your behalf
• Computer acting strange? Try this first.
• Q&A: How can I make my laptop shut down when I close the lid?
• The awesome power of kindness and compassion
• Info about my photo / file recovery service