Securing Smart Home Devices

Securing Smart Home Devices

Hey there, smart home enthusiast! Let’s chat about keeping your cool gadgets safe and secure in 2025. I know, I know, security stuff can sound boring, but trust me, it is super important and does not have to be a headache. Let us break it down in a way that is easy to understand and implement.

Protection

Do I Need a Password Manager?

I know you, like others, think you do not need a password manager. You make all of your passwords by either; taking your best password and add a number to it. Or a difficult word, or another identifier that you can remember. Or even worse idea, use the same tough password over and over on…

Email Attack

Disposable Email Addresses

Disposable email addresses, also known as temporary email addresses, are email addresses that are created for a specific purpose or for a limited time period. They can be easily created and discarded as needed, making them a useful tool for protecting privacy and reducing the amount of spam in your primary inbox. One of the…

2022 Sites in Review, Part 3

2022 Sites in Review, Part 3

Here you go, for the many of you that have written saying that you appreciate the reviews of last year’s links. This is the last of 2022. Enjoy! • Ghtech.site/KeepInfo, this is some of the previous information I wrote and recorded regarding Google Keep. • Google.com/devices. This is the URL for where you find all…

Many Apps

2022 Sites in Review, Part 1

I hope everyone has started a great 2023. It seems like I wrote the first article in 2022 a few weeks ago. I guess that is a good thing, especially since the DNR and you, the readers, have allowed me to write these tech ideas and thoughts for these many years. Actually, this is the…

Free Wifi

Practice Safe Public Wi-Fi

After last week’s article regarding “Steps Recorder,” someone asked if there is a way to get more immediate support from a friend or relative for problem resolution? The simple answer is, “Yes!” The more complicated answer is that there are as many ways to do this as Doan’s had pills in the 1940s. But last…

SandboxSandbox

Play in Your Sandbox

Remember when you were a kid playing in a sandbox? You could do whatever you wanted to it and always smooth it out and start over again. (Except for what the neighborhood cat may have left for you.) In Windows Pro and Enterprise versions of Windows, you can install Windows Sandbox. It operates just like…

Helpful Links

Helpful Links or Sites Ron Finds Useful

Last week I mentioned a link to downforeveryoneorjustme.com. I received several emails thanking me, as that is what those readers have actually wondered. I hope others will check it out and find out how helpful it can be. Today, I have some more useful links that can help you out in specific areas. One is…

Double Clicks Live

I mentioned on the WSVA Radio Show last week, and yesterday with Beth Bland from VPAS (Valley Program for Aging Services), regarding my new endeavor.  I feel that is it now time to bring it to my readers. Over the past 17 years, I have written about technology here at the DNR and many other…

Chrome Password Manager

  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…