Life… and tech, by Roger Brown
tutor & website consultant
#Question, and question, until you understand better. #Believe that you will find a good answer. Cynicism leads to lack of inquiry and lack of discovery. Believing that you can seek and find leads to truth. –from #anonymous so to speak. P.S. #questions can lead to #truth and #light, and then #hope. I do #believe. p.p.s. …
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Trying to show someone what’s on your screen?! Frustrated because you don’t know how. Well here you go: Windows — use “Snipping Tool”; you can find it on your Start Menu, OR by pressing the ‘windows’ button towards the bottom left of your keyboard. Mac laptop/desktop (MacOS) — use __ or the keyboard combos for …
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Many of us know to make backup copies of our files (photos, videos, and other documents) but don’t do it regularly. Well here are 3 easy ways to do that! And yes, you want 3 copies just in case things go really bad! 🙂 Use a ‘cloud’ service like iCloud to make copies of all …
Use an iPhone or iPad or another Apple product like one of their excellent laptops or maybe the Apple Watch? Then you really need to get security notifications of when they have problems. To do so, go to lists.apple.com > “Lists hosted on this site” > “Security-announce” and subscribe. Put in your email address. It’s …
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Just wanted to do a micro-blog post here about the Screenshotting tool in Firefox. I love it! Screenshots from websites are what I mostly do so having it right in the browser instead of having to do a keyboard combo on Mac or open Snipping Tool on Windows makes it really convenient. It has a …
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Most people could avoid getting their computers/devices hacked or their website(s) getting hacked if they would just stay informed about new releases for their programs/apps! For example, a whole lot of sites run WordPress. And the WordPress programmers have an announcements list letting you know periodically about security updates — subscribe to it @ http://wordpress.org/list …
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