Category: Mac

Secure your gmail before its too late

In a world where emails rain like confetti and passwords are harder to remember than your high school locker combination, safeguarding your Gmail account is as essential as making sure your house plants get sunlight. It’s not just about setting a strong password (although that helps); it’s also about being smart with your recovery options.  …

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Do you still need Zoom and Teams

Ah, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. These, along with FaceTime, were the unsung heroes of the pandemic, single-handedly keeping the world connected while we all huddled in our pajama bottoms. From awkwardly muted team meetings to the inevitable “You’re on mute” chorus, these platforms turned our living rooms into offices, classrooms, and social hubs. But now, …

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The Fake Link Scam

The fake link scam, the digital equivalent of stepping on a rake—painful, embarrassing, and entirely avoidable if you’re paying attention.  But hey, who among us hasn’t been tempted by a too-good-to-be-true offer or a mysterious message from a “long-lost friend”? In fact, full disclosure… I fell for the “long lost friend” email just recently. I …

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Updating your email

Many people are receiving an email from Microsoft and BigPond that appear, on the surface, to be fake. Both these emails say very similar things and offer similar instructions on how best to update your security before the deadline of September 2024. They tick all the boxes of a fake and scamming email but they, …

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Burning a CD

CDs. Remember those things? Exploding onto the scene in the 80’s they quickly became the replacement for our vinyl collections and garage sales everywhere were flogging off original 1970’s records for $2 a pop. I mean, who’d ever want records in the face of CDs ever again. History has a cruel sense of irony. Anyway, …

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