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• An audio problem in Win10, a forgotten app, and a Dropbox update

  Posted on October 4, 2020 at 21:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  SHORTS

  By TB Capen

  Controlling audio in Windows has always been one of those things that should be really simple — but aren’t.

  Recently, I ran into another audio problem that really had me flummoxed. When I was watching a Netflix movie on my PC, inside a Firefox tab, audio came through just fine on my USB headphones. But if I unplugged them, there was no audio from the speakers attached to the machine’s audio-out port.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.39.0 (2020-10-05).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Windows 10 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Audio controls, Benchmarks, Dropbox, Password managers, Windows Experience Index

• Freeware Spotlight — Infinite Password Generator

  Posted on January 6, 2020 at 01:00 CST by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  BEST UTILITIES

  By Deanna McElveen

  If you’re looking for a password-keeper/-generator app, there are plenty offered for nearly any platform.

  It should be no surprise that my preference is a password manager that’s both simple and portable — such as Yuku Sugianto’s Infinite Password Generator (IPG, for short). It generates secure passwords for websites and applications by combining a single master keyword with keywords you provide for each site. It then stores your passwords on your computer in an encrypted file.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.1.0 (2020-01-06).

  Best Utilities AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Password generators, Password managers, Portable apps