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LangList: Should you trust a hard drive after a major error?
Posted on February 18th, 2019 at 05:32 Comment on the AskWoody LoungeTough question. No easy answers. But there are lots of ways you can diagnose a suddenly disruptive drive.
Fred Langa with money-saving advice to fix (or accept!) a problem we’ve all encountered.
Out this morning in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.6.0.
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LangaList: Three somewhat unusual, but interesting, reader queries
Posted on February 11th, 2019 at 05:15 Comment on the AskWoody LoungeFred Langa’s back in the groove. This week he tackles three strange reader questions:
- Getting rid of unnecessary language files
- When you plug a smartphone into a PC, they used to act like dumb flash drives. Now they don’t. Why?
- Is a drive heavier, by a tiny amount when it’s full?
Fascinating stuff about fentograms and MTP.
In the new AskWoody Plus Newsletter issue 16.5.0 – out this morning.
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Fred Langa: Use Google’s new Password Checker extension for Chrome to see if your passwords have been compromised
Posted on February 7th, 2019 at 08:04 Comment on the AskWoody LoungeFred’s at it again. His latest Langa.com article talks about a new Chrome extension that specifically checks to see if the password you’re entering has been compromised.
It’s different from the compromised-email-address checking sites because it looks at passwords.
Interesting product. I just added Password Checkup to my Chrome box of tools.