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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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Mail Folders

I once walked into a friends house, a house I have visited often, and remarked on the painting on her wall. “That looks lovely”, I said. “Really goes well with the colour of the wall.” She looked at me, quite reasonably I think, with doubt and concern. That painting has been there for 5 years! …

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Yes, you have google

This article comes on the heels of a conversation I had with my mother-in-law a few days back. A mac user for many years she confidently claimed that she couldn’t go to a particular website because it required google and she didn’t have google. If she could have seen my face (fortunately this was one …

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Serious iPhone hack

UPDATE: TechCrunch reported on the 2nd Sept that this exploit was designed to target Uyghur Muslims in China. However, the overall message of this article remains the same. Over the weekend (30-31 August 2019) the tech papers were flooded with reports of “hundreds of thousands of iPhones hacked” and “biggest breach of iOS ever”. For …

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