kevin's picks

Kevin’s Picks: Groupy 2

By Kevin / April 6, 2024

In this pick, I am focusing on Groupy 2 from Stardock. It enables tabs in File Explorer, which windows 10 does not have by default. These are similar to tabs in your browser. I literally use and depend on Groupy every single day, and it makes me more productive.

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Kevin’s Picks: Ghostery, A Browser Extension

By Kevin / March 18, 2024

Ghostery provides adblocking, and stops trackers from accessing your personal data, in addition to Cookie pop-ups.

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Kevin’s Picks: Windows Toolbox

By Kevin / March 6, 2024

Windows 11 comes bundled with several Microsoft apps that you may not have any need for, and it’s a real pain to get rid of them.

The best program I’ve found to do this so far is called the Windows Toolbox from Chris Titus Tech. It’s $10US, but I consider that a very fair bargain for what it does.

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Kevin’s Picks: Control Panel for Twitter

By Kevin / February 14, 2024

In this pick, I’m talking about the browser extension for Firefox and Chrome called “Control Panel for Twitter”. For those of us who must still use Twitter (now X) out of necessity, in addition to possibly posting more frequently on other Social Media like Mastodon, Threads, BlueSky, etc. this makes the experience of using Twitter much more pleasant.

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Kevin’s Picks: KeePass Password Manager

By Kevin / December 1, 2023

I continue to strongly recommend using a Password Manager like 1Password or Bit Warden for years now. That said, it’s important not to solely rely on cloud services, even when they’re super secure.

Here’s a look at KeePass.

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Kevin’s Picks: Driver Booster

By Kevin / November 13, 2023

This blog post is part of my System Cleanup series. In this Quick Pick, I’ll briefly discuss and walk you through how to use IOBit’s Driver Booster in addition to Windows Update. However, I recommend downloading it using PatchMyPC instead. Please note that I prefer the Pro version of Driver Booster, which is NOT free.…

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Kevin’s Picks: PatchMyPC

By Kevin / September 18, 2023

WIth our computers now constantly connected to the internet, any vulnerability in any program could potentially be used as a way to access our computers, though most of the time it’s unlikely and targeted. That said, keeping programs up to date better ensures our computers remain reliable and secure.

My go-to is PatchMyPC, an all-in-one installer for hundreds of the most commonly used programs.

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