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• Tech insights from relocating home and office

  Posted on July 5, 2020 at 02:45 CDT by Jamie • Comment in the Forums
  

  LANGALIST — SPECIAL EDITION

  Tech insights from relocating home and office

  

  By Fred Langa

  We Langas are midway through a major relocation. Here are a few things I’ve learned from tearing down, moving, and rebuilding my office and home computer setups.

  Among them: another reason to love solid-state drives, and 5G is for real.

  Moving home and office is never fun …

  … but it can let you see some things in a new light.

  We just relocated home and office 48 hours ago and are still awash in boxes. I’m sitting here in a straight-backed dining-room chair, waiting for the Verizon tech to arrive to get us back online with a dedicated private connection, and typing this column in Gmail on my underpowered, emergency-use-only Chromebook because I haven’t yet found the box my Win10/Office laptop is in, and my standing desk and office chair are buried in unpacked stuff. Yikes!

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.26.0 (2020-07-06).

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• LangaList: “What will happen if I don’t replace immediately a swollen lithium ion battery?”

  Posted on May 21, 2020 at 07:40 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Fred has a video to show you what’s at stake.

  New on Langa.com.

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• Fred Langa: “What’s the cheapest way to network an external hard drive?”

  Posted on February 27, 2019 at 09:48 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Fred says, “How about $0.00?”

  If that surprises you, check out Fred’s latest column on Langa.com.

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• LangaList: Should you trust a hard drive after a major error?

  Posted on February 18, 2019 at 05:32 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Tough 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. Now available – yes, for free — on AskWoody.

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• LangaList: Three somewhat unusual, but interesting, reader queries

  Posted on February 11, 2019 at 05:15 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Fred 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 7, 2019 at 08:04 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Fred’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.

  Windows News Fred Langa, LangaList, Password Checkup