Archive for the ‘Tech Tips’ Category

Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac and Windows

Some interesting and useful keyboard shortcuts that make working on your computer just a bit faster and enjoyable. Here is a list of some favorites for Mac and Windows computers. Mac: [Command ⌘] [Shift ⇧] [Option ⌥] [Control ⌃] [Caps Lock ⇪]

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Terms of Service Didn’t Read

This a great site to get the important details of the Terms of Service agreements for most of the popular sites and applications. It can be scary to know the truth but you need to know. Terms of Service Didn’t Read

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Has Your Information Been Part Of A Breach???

With all the breaches that have occurred like Adobe, Target, Home Depot, Linkedin, and Dropbox for example as of late how do you know if your information has been part of them? There is a site called Have I Been Pwned that looks at the leaked data and helps you to identify if your info […]

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Email Privacy Tester

While I was checking out a new email client I wanted to see how it behaved in handling mail. I came across this fantastic site that allows you to run a test on your email client and see how it is REALLY handling your email. EmailPrivacyTester.com From the site: Some email clients perform operations when […]

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Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media

I was recently trying to upgrade to Windows 10 and was using my copy of Windows 7 upgrade media to do it. I have a license for XP full and wanted to just use 7 and go straight to 10. I of course had difficulty because Microsoft makes it hard to use upgrade media for […]

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Mounting a NAS volume on your Apple Mac OS X

When I first bought my Mac notebook I had no trouble connecting it to my NAS via Connect to server in finder. I could also launch the connection on startup via my user startup login setup. The problem came in when I went away from my network or the system was asleep for a long […]

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Fastest way to delete a folder with a large amount of files

The quickest way is a two line batch file with a first pass to delete files and outputs to nul to avoid the overhead of writing to screen for every singe file. A second pass then cleans up the remaining directory structure: del /f/s/q foldername > nul rmdir /s/q foldername As always be careful but […]

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MX, DNS, Blacklist, and SMTP troubleshooting

All of your MX record, DNS, blacklist and SMTP diagnostics in one integrated tool.  Input a domain name or IP Address or Host Name.Links in the results will guide you to other relevant tools and information.  And you’ll have a chronological history of your results. This is a nice little tool.   www.mxtoolbox.com

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Microsoft Attack Surface Analyzer 1.0 Released

The purpose of this tool is to help software developers, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and IT Professionals better understand changes in Windows systems’ attack surface resulting from the installation of new applications. You can download it here.

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Disable a linux firewall

Here is how to check and disable the linux firewall. service iptables status service iptables stop chkconfig iptables off Now of course it’s better to leave them on and open ports but if you have a firewall in front of your systems or for troubleshooting this can help. Enjoy!

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