Google Accounts Breached - Is Yours One?

Check here for a free checkup using the Dashlane Security Center if your Google account was one of the 5.0 million accounts breached. 

Stop Chrome from Exposing Your Saved Passwords

Google Chrome is my favorite browser for my laptop and Desktop. However, Chrome allows anyone with access to your PC to be able to 'see' saved passwords (Facebook, email, etc.) with a little searching around.

Solution: Use a two-step solution. First: stop saving passwords in Chrome by going to Settings > Advanced Settings and un-checking the "Offer to save passwords" box under "Passwords and forms." Secondly, install the highly rated free Password Manager LastPass to save and 'remember' all your passwords needing only to remember one Master Password. Read more here.

Stop Online Tracking of Your Web Use

Disconnect (Firefox/Chrome/IE/Safari) blocks third party tracking cookies and gives you control over all site scripts and elements from a simple-to-use toolbar menu. It also protects you from tracking by social networks like Facebook, Google, and Twitter, which use your browsing even off-site to collect data about you. Read more ...

Increase Chances to Recover Phone, Tablet, etc.

Improve your chance to recover a lost or misplaced phone, tablet or mobile device. How? Create an ICE (in case of emergency) and 'If Found' Home Screen for those devices. Check the image on this post: go to the built-in Notes app on the mobile device, put in "If found" and "In case of emergency" contact information (consider putting a few blank lines at the top). Then simultaneously press the Home button and the on-off button (on the iPhone this takes a screenshot of that information). Next, go over to the "Photos" app, find the screenshot, tapped it, set it as your wallpaper. Done!

Find and Delete Duplicate Photos

Searching for how best to remove the mass of extra (duplicate) photos I have on my PC, I came across several 'duplicate image removal' programs. I decided to see what was available besides manually sorting photos by Date Taken and viewing each photo. Two programs worth noting are VisiPics and Auslogics. After seeing the algorythms and control VisiPics offers I decided to use VisiPics. Note: walk though the VisiPics Tutorial a couple times.