7/16/25—-email addresses—-I use Gmail as my email provider, and it has one of the best SPAM filters around. Still, once in a while something will get thru and since any link or attachment could be near disaster, if anything looks off the first thing I do is look at the email address and see if it looks off. Any business address should look, well, professional. And a business would seldom use Gmail as a provider for their email. Here is what I got today. Notice the difference between their email address and ours. Here is an email from Amazon I received personally—again, notice the difference. This is too big a topic to go into much, and email providers all have addresses displayed differently, so…just be aware.
7/14/25—–can you get a virus just from opening an email?? article
3/25/24—-How to tell if a web address is safe…article
2/27/24—-a list of “must know” tech terms to help you understand what the heck some articles are saying! 🙂 article
While it is not directly “tech talk”, it is relevant to help stay focused on real tech issues—from Ask Leo—–Why I Don’t Believe in Conspiracies
1/3/2024—-Suspect Your Windows PC Has Malware? How to Quickly Reduce and Remove the Threat from How To Geek….article
12/31/23—-Article with a bunch of keyboard shortcuts for windows….article
12/29/23—A Good article from How To Geek regarding how to download software safely without infecting your machine…..article
11/14/23—-Ever wonder why people’s Facebook accounts get hacked—either broken into or copied and faked and friends contacted?? It’s worth money!! See this article for full details, but here’s what your data is currently going for on the dark web: LinkedIn—$45, Facebook—$14, Instagram—$12, Discord…$12, Snapchat—$11, X (Twitter)—$10, Pinterest—$9TicTok—$8.
11/2/2023 Same safety tips but they bear repeating article
10/23/23 Spam–how the majority of malware gets delivered to your pc…article
7/14/23—Consumer reports had a good article on staying safe with texts, emails, phone calls, and other scams. Unfortunately, I cannot refer you to it if you do not have an account and to publish it online without permission would not be good. But they also referred to this website they put up several years ago. If you have never visited it, it has a lot of good tips for staying safer with tech today: https://securityplanner.consumerreports.org/
7/2/23—10 hidden windows features you should be using: article
7/1/23 Requests from “friends” on Facebook article
6/14/23 Here is a good article regarding security/browser myths: article
5/25/23 Ok folks —-sorry, but I was misled, Windows 10 will be supported until 10/14/25: The future of Windows 10 looks like this: 21H2 (the second-half of 2021 update) will be supported until June 13, 2023. 22H2 (the second-half of 2022 update) will be supported until October 14, 2025. see article to see what version windows you are running, hold down the windows key and tap the “I” key to get to settings, then click on systems, then click on about.
5/24/23–It has been a busy month with lots of good info and articles coming out …first up, Microsoft announced this month that within the next month or maybe two, if your pc is still running windows 10 and has the hardware to support windows 11, Microsoft is going to force your pc to upgrade to 11. Next, Microsoft is about to release a tool to help you keep your pc clean and running well, it really isn’t brand new…but it does draw into one place all the existing Microsoft tools that your pc already has…you can download the beta version here, and yes…I have been testing/using it for almost a month now……next—-an article from my new favorite tech site on 15 tools you need for a new pc here an article on how to permanently delete your files before giving or selling your pc here and finally, 5 easy tasks to improve your pc security here
4/24/23—-Think twice before signing that online petition….article
4/18/23—-I got an email yesterday from Honda announcing that they will be closing the Trip Planner Website as of May 31,2023. If you have any saved routes there, now is the time to download and save them!
4/6/23—Storing photos and documents for the long term
4/3/23—ever wonder how the heck did that site know who you were?? You need to readthis
3/27/23—I use my windows clipboard a lot, from coping down web addresses to passwords to ..well, a lot of things. Several years ago, Microsoft changed the clipboard from remembering just one item to several…and you can pick and choose what’s in the memory and what to paste and what to erase…. just hold down the window key and then tap the V key—-it will bring up what’s on your clipboard!
3/14/23—Windows 10, 11, and 12. Not all pcs that run windows 10 have the hardware that Microsoft demands in order to run Windows 11. FYI Microsoft will stop issuing security patches to Windows 10 sometime in the fall of 2025. If you do not like some of what you have heard about Windows 11, Microsoft plans to release Windows 12 sometime in 2024. It’s my understanding that Windows 12 is to Windows 11 like Windows 7 was to Vista, or like 10 was to 8…….a more finished/refined operating system.
3/13/23—just when you thought you knew all the keyboard shortcuts you needed, here comes a new list: shortcuts
1/4/23—-Internet Safety: 7 Steps to Staying Safe Online : Ask Leo
11/29/22—If you are still running Windows 8.1, time is running out for support for the system, but you still might be able to upgrade for free: go here
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