This Christmas season I hope you have seen some websites’ URLs that start with "https://" instead of "http://." That is if you shop online, do banking online, etc. Here is a short lesson on what they mean. The basic one, "http" stands for "Hyper Text Transfer Protocol" which is the main prefix for most websites. …
So my wife and I are getting ready to leave on a weekend trip and I am doing my regular job as "Pack Mule." I begin hauling all the bags out to the car and realize I am carrying two computer cases for two people. I comment to my wife about how interesting it is…
Several weeks ago I was technologically surprised by a non-geek. Over the phone, a good friend of mine and I were discussing a problem with his home PC. For some strange reason he could not get a particular Microsoft Excel formula to work properly. At work I use an application that must first be installed…
OK, you look at the title above and your figure, "Ron has started writing drunk!" But no, I have not started writing columns while I am drunk or on painkillers. Previously I wrote about passwords and had several of you write me asking about coming up with letter/symbol substitutions. If you look closely at the…
I receive questions quite often about passwords. I have a quick, wise guy answer; make them really difficult but easy. OK, I left a couple of words out of that statement. It should have said “really difficult for someone else to guess but easy for you to remember.” We need passwords for networks on our…
Windows 8 is out and according to Microsoft it is, "Vibrant and beautiful." Well the colors are very nice and it is faster. It will work with a computer that previously ran Windows 7 and even run better and faster with less hardware requirements which is unusual for a new Operating System. It also boots…
So the other day a couple of my coworkers and I went out to eat. While we were eating a background song came on that they had never heard. Of course, they were much younger than I am, so I figured they were not even a thought when the song came out sometime in the…
My wife and I have a friend, Brittany and one day she and my wife were talking. Brittany said that she had a broken computer. Well, then my wife proceeded to tell Brittany what I do for a living, hobby, etc. Now at this point I have to say Brittany does not read the Daily…
I was talking to a friend of mine this week and we were remembering what it used to be like in the olden days, which was really not that long ago for some of us. However, for the youngsters… well young people have no idea. Here are a couple of details we talked about. This…
I have a feeling if you have not already heard about two-factor authentication you will hear a lot shortly. TFA is also referred to as "two-step verification" so you may see them used interchangeably. Two-factor authentication is another advance in security for protecting you on the internet. Some bank and other online apps including Google,…
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