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1d ago
ISSUE 21.17.1 • 2024-04-23 By Susan Bradley The April updates have been relatively quiet, with some exceptions. That’s why I’m lowering the MS-DEFCON level to 4. Most of my concerns lie not with this month’s patches but rather with the timing of future mandates. In addition, Microsoft finally acknowledged an “oopsie” with Edge. Anyone can ..read more
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2d ago
ISSUE 21.17 • 2024-04-22 HARDWARE By Susan Bradley You’re probably thinking this article is about cleaning paper dust from a printer or fixing a stuck pick-up wheel. We all deal with that sort of thing. This is about something you probably don’t think about before heading to your local e-cycler with that old printer ..read more
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2d ago
HARDWARE By Susan Bradley How do you plan for getting rid of your old phone? Eventually, you will get a new phone. Perhaps you dropped your iPhone 9 into the bathtub. Perhaps your iPhone 7’s battery gives you a mere seven minutes of talk time. Perhaps you were seduced by the iPhone 19. Or, worse ..read more
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2d ago
HARDWARE By Will Fastie After 25 years, I’m changing the way I work. Many hardware changes are on the horizon. You may recall my previous articles about building my Windows 11 PC, named Obsidian. After I put that PC into daily service, my desk remained cluttered with four desktop PCs. These PCs share the same ..read more
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2d ago
HARDWARE By Will Fastie I’m filled with angst about Microsoft getting out of the PC accessories business. PC peripherals of any kind are a very personal matter. But those with which we interact the most can have an enormous impact on our productivity. I know this intellectually, of course, but recently it’s become reality. Read ..read more
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2d ago
Now that busy season is over for me, I’ll be doing some long overdue upgrade projects. At the office I’ll be planning on upgrading my Windows 11 22H2 machines to 23H2 (more on this in an upcoming newsletter) ensuring that I do not enable Copilot in the process. Here at home I upgraded my older ..read more
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1w ago
ISSUE 21.16 • 2024-04-15 Look for our BONUS issue on Monday, April 22! WINDOWS 11 By Lance Whitney Frustrated because your Windows laptop runs out of juice at the worst possible times? There are ways to better sustain your battery charge. One of the best laptops I ever owned was a Lenovo ThinkPad T460 back ..read more
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1w ago
PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston The blogosphere has been going nuts lately after learning that Apple quietly turned on by default an iPhone setting known as “Discoverable by Others.” Despite your initial shock after hearing this — or seeing it for yourself on your phone — being discoverable may or may not be something you ..read more
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1w ago
MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan Microsoft Forms is a good way for anyone to gather info for polls and surveys, or test with an online quiz. If only the links to Excel were more elegant and straightforward. Forms is available to anyone with a free Microsoft account, and that’s what I’ll use in this article ..read more
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1w ago
PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley It’s raining CVEs. There are definitely going to be two groups of patchers this month. One will say, “Issues? What issues? My computer updated without issues.” The other group will complain about needing a BitLocker recovery key, or that their updates took a long time, or that they were offered ..read more