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How to Install and Use the 1Password Firefox Browser Extension
Thank you for your interest in my 1Password How To Guide series. In this post, I’ll show you how to install the 1Password browser extension for Firefox. I honestly prefer using the standalone app and copy and pasting usernames and passwords from there, but it’s a little more inconvenient.
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Downloading and Using The 1Password Desktop App
This blog post focuses on the 1Password desktop program. This blog post series walks you through how to download, install, and use 1Password, including the desktop program, and browser extensions, depending on what you want to use.
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How To Download, Install, and Use 1Password
In this blog post series, I will talk about and walk you through how to download, install and use the password manager called 1Password, which is an affordable, paid solution with basically everything you’ll need as a personal or even small business user, including the standalone desktop application, and the browser plugins for Firefox, Chrome, and Edge to assist you with logging into websites securely.
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Quick Tip: How To Change Your Windows 11 PIN Into A Secure Password
In this blog post, I will cover changing your Windows 11 PIN to a proper, secure password. By default, out of the box, so to speak, it requires that you create at least a 4-digit PIN. I strongly suggest immediately changing that to a secure password to reduce your computer’s likelihood of being compromised. Here’s how to do that.
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Quick Tip: Clear Storage Space on Your iPhone by Uninstalling and Reinstalling Them To Get Rid of their “Documents and Data”
In this Quick Tip, I’ll cover one of the best ways to tidy up your iPhone in terms of storage space, and it’s something that might not occur to people right away because it’s not often talked about.
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System Cleanup Series: How To Download, Install, and Use Advanced System Care
This is my comprehensive guide on how to use Advanced SystemCare. It will scan for and resolve a variety of potential issues on your computer.
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Why You Should Enable Stolen Device Protection on Your iPhone in iOS 17.3
iOS 17.3 included a feature called Stolen Device Protection. In this blog post, I will describe what that is, why this is so important, and walk you through how to access it.
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How To Download and Install Backblaze To Securely Backup Your Files To The Cloud
Backblaze is a cloud option that automatically backs up your files to your account once you set it up. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the steps to download and install Backblaze on your Windows 10 computer, though the process is similar in Windows 11.
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How To Use Mastodon: Part 1 [Subscribers]
You’ve likely heard of Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter. You’re intrigued and curious. A deciding factor for you may be that Mastodon collects absolutely no data from its users in terms of anything not absolutely required to use it.
First, I’m not here to convince you to switch to Mastodon. I want to go over what I like about it, what it offers, why I prefer it to Twitter, and why I think you will.
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How To Use Mastodon: Part 1 [Premium]
You’ve likely heard of Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter. You’re intrigued and curious. A deciding factor for you may be that Mastodon collects absolutely no data from its users in terms of anything not absolutely required to use it.
First, I’m not here to convince you to switch to Mastodon. I want to go over what I like about it, what it offers, why I prefer it to Twitter, and why I think you will.
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Quick Tip: Hide Clutter in Windows 11 Desktop Search
The search box on the taskbar and the pop-up search both have “highlights” that recommend all kinds of distractions, including shopping content, games, and more. Here’s how to turn that off.
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Quick Tip: How to Use A Password Instead of a PIN in Windows 11
In this Quick Tip, I’m going to describe how to change your Windows PIN to a much more secure password. By default, Windows 11 asks for a PIN to login to your account, but this is a convenience at the sacrifice of good security. Better than nothing, but barely.
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How To Install Windows 11 Without A Microsoft Account
Here’s how to setup a Local Account, based on your computer and NOT in the cloud, during Windows 11 setup.
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System Cleanup Series: Uninstall (Remove) Apps and Programs in Windows 11
This blog post is part of my System Cleanup series. One of the best ways to free up some space in Windows 11 is to remove programs and apps you’re not using or no longer want, some of which may have come pre-installed when you purchased your computer and you might not even know are there.
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How To Guides: System Cleanup Series
When did you last perform a System Cleanup, or had one done? More importantly, when was it done well?
If you need help remembering, your computer needs one.
Here are my How To Guides with the steps I recommend when performing a proper System Cleanup.
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System Cleanup Series: Windows Update in Windows 10
In this blog post, I will show you around Windows Update in Windows 10. It is often suggested that we go to Windows Update and click “Check For Updates”, but there are a few more options to help get the most out of Windows Update How To Access Windows Update Click Image To View Larger…
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How To Use System Restore in Windows 10
In this blog post, I will talk about and walk you through the System Restore feature in Windows 10. This feature allows you to effectively rollback Windows itself to a previous time when things seemed to be working correctly before a recent change.
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How To Reset Windows 10
Here’s a quick guide on how to reset Windows 10 to it’s out-of-the-box factory state. You can either choose to do a “reinstall”, where it won’t touch any personal files on the drive, or a “clean install”, where Windows will mark the drive as empty and you’ll be starting from scratch. Jump List Navigate To…
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System Cleanup Series: How To Use PatchMyPC to Keep Your Programs Up to Date
In this post, I’ll talk about downloading, installing, and using PatchMyPC as an all-in-one installer for many of the most commonly used free programs and as an easy way to keep your programs up to date!
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These Are The Settings You Should Change After You Install Firefox
In this blog post, I walk you through the steps I recommend taking to configure Firefox to make it more user friendly, and provide better overall experience with a webs browser you’re likely to use almost every day.
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