More than a year after ending its free Windows 10 upgrade program, Microsoft is getting ready to shut down the last official free upgrade extension. The news wasn’t exactly shouted from the rooftops. If you’ve been waiting to claim your free Windows 10 upgrade using the “assistive technologies” exception, you need to act soon. In…
I think this is the best email client out there for PC. I have been using it for a while after Outlook (a RAM hog IHMO) and it took a little getting used to but worth it over the long haul. Have at it. Software made to make email easier. Thunderbird is a free email…
Libre Office getting better all the time. The Document Foundation last week announced that it was rolling out LibreOffice 5.4.1 Fresh, the first minor upgrade to its LibreOffice 5.4 open source suite of productivity apps introduced earlier this summer. It also announced LibreOffice 5.3.6 Still, representing the sixth release of its LibreOffice 5.3 family originally…
The average business employee must keep track of 191 passwords, according to a report from password management firm LastPass, released Wednesday. That’s seven times higher than standard industry reports, which report the average is 27 passwords. It’s also a potential security concern, as 81% of all confirmed data breaches are due to weak, reused, or…
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Rick emailed an interesting question about Gmail this week. His company uses Google’s product, “G Suite Business” for their email. With G Suite all email and cloud storage is handled by Google in the cloud. This can allow big savings in money, time and equipment for the company. I have used it before in the…
You know everyone makes mistakes; however, not many make as far reaching a mistake as Bill Burr. Mr. Burr is the person responsible for the current password guidelines he dispersed and he now says the instruction was wrong. He authored an eight-page document which was OK’d by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He…
This is the last week of our Chrome Extension tour and I have three of them left. I have also saved the very best for last and you will not believe what it does, it is a miracle! I am sure you will get my meaning at the end. First up is, “LastPass: Free Password…
This week we will continue examining Chrome Extensions. They will all be related to one item…Google. Since I have gotten emails thanking me for this series of articles I have bad news for those who liked it, we only have one more to go after this one. For those of you that were bored that…
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