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March 2, 2025 / Techy Tips

Lock Your Screen – Security Best Practice

jasr.me/dog – If you are another funny IT guy like me and want to kindly ask your coworkers to LOCK THEIR SCREEN. Or if you want to pull a prank on your coworkers and see their face when they come back to their computer. jasr.me/dogx3 – I also created another page that will automatically load…

February 5, 2024 / Technology, Techy Tips, Uncategorized

Fake Recall Notice

I just got a news brief notification on my phone. It read, “about 2.2 million vehicles” and “nearly all Tesla EV models”… I wonder if they know of other Tesla models that are not EV? CLICK BAIT, Thanks Fox Business and really any news publication that just released this story. If a car or any…

January 7, 2024 / Techy Tips

Outlook vs OWA

I am defining Microsoft 365 Outlook app on your computer vs Outlook Web Access via https://outlook.office.com/mail/. Here is a side-by-side comparison and I bet you can’t tell which is which? There are only subtle differences. This is a screenshot from my 2 24″ monitors and on my work account with Microsoft E3 license with Office…

July 10, 2023 / Techy Tips

It it’s not tied down…

This just just shows that the bad guys are only getting better. No matter how much security we think we have, we need to constantly test ourselves. “…attacks always get better, they never get worse…” #BruceSchneier Given enough time, the bad guys will find a way. It’s unfortunate, but true. The bad guys are highly motivated…

July 23, 2021 / Techy Tips

Secure Password is not Secure

You’ve seen it, “Enter your new password, it has to be this long with these character types…” BLAH BLAH BLAH. You enter your regular password of Monkey123 (Yes, monkey is always among the most popular passwords found on the internet.) See most popular passwords https://cybernews.com/best-password-managers/most-common-passwords/ I like sites that allow you to add multiple symbols….

July 20, 2021 / Techy Tips

New Update iOS 14.7

Updates: MagSafe Battery Pack Support reverse charging Merge Apple Cards HomePod Timer Management Air Quality Info Podcast app updates Bug Fixes WiFi SSID name fix %p%s%s%s%s%n other misc. bugs References: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-14-7-features/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0HyBJ3f8dM

July 2, 2021 / Techy Tips

Is It Down?

Yesterday there was an outage of 8×8 (eight by eight) which is a VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) Phone Provider. I didn’t know if it was that site’s internet or specific to their account or the whole system. I came across two things that I thought I would share. First, if you rely on a…

July 2, 2021 / Techy Tips

HP 3 Monitor Daisy Chain

While it is not a new concept, I just had the pleasure of setting up 3 monitors via DisplayPort daisy chaining. Using a Lenovo ThinkCentre M92g and two HP z24frg3 monitors plus another HP monitor, I was able to connect DP out from desktop to 1st monitor, DP out from that to 2nd monitor, DP…

June 29, 2021 / Techy Tips

Do Not Do This

Do NOT join this network if you see it. Once you do it will brick your iPhone and will need a Reset Network Settings to fix. iOS Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. (NOTE: if you need to click ‘Reset Network Settings” you won’t lose any data or files on your phone…

February 9, 2016 / Techy Tips

nar·cis·sis·tic

…Speaking of Narcissism, check out my About page UPDATE: The Numerous Blog (and iOS app) that I reference below is officially gone.  I wrote this on Facebook. To save time and not have to repeat my words I am going to copy and paste it here: I think I have a serious problem when people…