How do you get into your computer? Chetna wrote me this week asking if there was some other way to secure her PC than a long difficult password. You know with upper case, lower case, numbers and symbols of 18 characters long, etc. Which I am sure we all follow that rule…right. (Read the last…
I stumbled across a very interesting application for my phone the other day. I have often thought it would be neat to take a picture of something and get information on the subject. With the CamFind application, you can. Find it at camfindapp.com. It retrieves information fairly accurately on many, but not all, things that…
You know the feeling, you are at home and all of a sudden, the sites load very slowly. You may be at the local coffee shop where they provide free Wi-Fi and it is unbelievably sluggish. YouTube videos either stop and start while buffering multiple times in a couple of minutes or do not…
I have stated before that my browser of choice is Google Chrome. In my opinion, it is “currently” the better browser of the main ones. At the end of 2017, W3Counter states that the top browsers used are Chrome, (59%) Safari, (15%) Firefox, (9%) Internet Explorer/Edge (8%) and Opera (4%). Notice the significant gap…
A couple of years ago I bought something for my car that was new on the market. You know something about me if you have read this column for any amount of time. That is that I do not like to spend money unless something is really useful or not available for free. I…
From emails, I hear many got new Windows 10 computers for Christmas and it is encouraging you do use a Pin and not a Password to secure it. Is a four-digit pin a good idea to use over your either character password? Microsoft says it is a very good security feature for your computer….
Today I will continue with the start of the 16th year of “Double Click” by providing more of last year’s links. If the site addresses are too long for print, I have shortened them using the “bit.ly” app. The links are preceded by “rd.dblclx.com” followed by various letters and numbers. Copy them, then paste…
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