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Secure Your Passwords. Sage Advice From AI

Hey everybody! Let’s make things work! If you haven’t heard of the Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) rage going on you haven’t been paying attention. I signed up for a trial account at https://chat.openai.com/chat and played

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Why VPN

There are several reasons why you might decide to use a VPN: The first reason you might use a VPN is to access content exclusive to a particular geographic location. If you buy Nexflix in

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Take Your Privacy Seriously

If you feel a bit like prey when you’re online–pay attention! It may seem like what you do on your computer in the privacy of your own home stays within your four walls, but the

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Keep it secret, keep it safe…

Passwords are the ever-present, love/hate accessory of the modern world. We need them for all of our data, everything from bank accounts to ordering a souvenir postcard. Perhaps the worst part about them, short of

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A Word About Passwords

Part of everyday life, it seems–your passwords are now gatekeeper to your correspondence, financial details, banking information and everything else on the list of details and information that make up all the external components of

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If they called you, they probably aren’t good

A constant plague on the population of home computer users is the tech support/computer infection scam.  Basically when someone calls you saying your computer is infected, or when a popup suddenly appears on your screen

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Avoid The Tax Scam Blues

Tax season is the time of year when scammers are out in full force, trying to take advantage of unsuspecting taxpayers. It’s important to be aware of the dangers associated with tax season scams and

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The world is ending…

If you were to ask someone what it’s like to be scammed, this is a likely response you would get, at least if they didn’t know it was a scam: Some guy called me out

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Cable Ends: Which way is up?

Hey everybody! Let’s make things work! I am constantly plugging and unplugging cables. Into and out of phones, computers, devices of all sorts. Those connectors like micro-usb cables or even regular USB cables just don’t

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