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Dear Dave, dear Jason, I get your daily tips, via e mail, from pc mech, I’m addicted to getting them! A question from the approx June 25 entry. To create a master password for all your browser auto complete passwords. my question is how and where do I create it? Can you please clarify this in a future email daily tip? David I hope your little six month old daughter is doing great. Thank you, Ruth PS I am a premium subscriber, but I still haven’t followed the instructions in that letter that David sent about two months ago, with the new system. For now I just put up with the ads, until I can find the time. By then my year will be over!
Ruth, I posted how to do this (using FF2) in the comments section of the tip:
http://www.pcmech.com/article/put-a-master-password-on-your-browser-passwords/
hi Jason, again,many thankyous for your daily tip. it is the 1st thing I read, every day. Apparently IE does not have a browser master password, the way you described that FF does? I did not see it in tools. internet options, security – in IE. thank you again, Jason
Hi Dave,
I have stopped receiving your Tips of the Day, and cannot re-register.
Pls assist to help me out, I am addicted to it!!.
10x
Dave, I really like the look of this week’s newsletter!!It covers a lot without driving points in the ground. I give you +1. Keep up the good work.
John53
A Weird Question – In The PC Mech Newsletters there are screen shots of various programs, I would like to know what font u have used in the Title Bar – I allready know that the pc theme is ‘Royale Noir’ but I would like to know what font is used (e.g – http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/image115.png) – The top title bar where it is black.
Email Me Please
Dear David,
I do enjoy your subjects in Live Broadcast. That said, just to make you aware that the notification of your live shows arrive at 8.00a.m. Thursday morning in Australian EST.
Tony.
David,
Thanks for all the hard work and great computer tips you and your friends give. Regarding your comment today: “Yeah,
sometimes life comes before work.” Good choice there. Never let your work hurt your marriage & family, if you can prevent it. It isn’t worth it.
Hi Dave, for the record, Dying is spelled this way, no ieing. And in the very first line of “Techs early adopter, it’s our not out. Love your site!
Hi David,
Been a reader a long while. Found your 8-4 rant on tech and your readers interesting. I’m one of the older ones I suspect. I also believe that the future of computer tech is not on our desktops, or our current PDA-phones-players and the like. It will probably be in some kind of implanted chip that connects us to a virtual web – but it is going to take a long time to get there smoothly. Meanwhile we have to keep all these blasted tech products working so we can both work and have fun. Yes I’m on Facebook, looking at Twitter, etc but most of the time I’m burning CD’s or writing letters or trying to get the internal FAX to work – or trying to get 3 kinds of things to properly interface and sych. And lots of times I need help because there is simply too much or too many different kinds of things to learn. We need time to live life too – work, sing, garden, weave – whatever. At 65 I’m still learning as fast as I can but I’ve already learned a whole lot of stuff I’m still working with. I bet most of your slightly grumpy readers feel the same way so lead on into the “whatever” future. Just remember that we have to keep all these techno-beasts working well right now.
Thanks for all your energy and good advice.
Hi Dave,
Long time consumer of your various output and a subscriber to your newsletters.
I’m writing to comment on your RANT in the latest newsletter. (#253) about the direction of the newsletter.
I have 4 comps on a small local network here in my office, I blog, play WoW and Guildwars, make websites, and basically spend waaaaay too much time online. I’m less about the mechanics of a system once I have it working. If it does the job, leave it alone.
I follow a lot of content in addition to yours. Lifehacker, Technorati,etc.and several forums about my trade. I do RSS via Google Reader.
Bottom line is that I’m very interested in the bleeding edge stuff as interesting information even if I don’t adopt it. Now and then I do. I use a TabletPC every day for my Home Inspection business and few others do.
So to answer your question about the direction of PCMech, a blend would work for me. Per your comments, it seems you have a strong base of gear heads and tweakers that you need to satisfy. That’s cool but actually a bit boring for me. I only consider system hardware changes if driven by a need. Otherwise I let it run till it no longer does the job.
Keep up the good job.
Dana
Just a comment about today’s (8/11) article about Best Buy’s kiosks in airports…if you have ever seen what cameras cost in resort destinations, this might be a real deal if you have forgotten one. I know someone who went on their honeymoon in Cancun Mexico and forgot their camera. They bought a really crappy digital camera for $100+. Anyway, maybe that’s the type of customer they are looking for.
Keep ut the good work.
Salutations,
Was referred to your site by my professor of A+ Certification. Will think about becoming upon further scrutiny. Notwithstanding, I like what I see…so far.
Regards,
M
On 27 Sep 2008 at 16:31, PCMech.com wrote:
>>One commenter on this post makes a great point which holds true for any OS: if someone can get physical access to your drive, they can get anything off of it they want unless the drive is encrypted. My thought on this is the only way someone can actually get physical access to my computer is if they break into my house, in which case I have far bigger problems. I generally do not keep anything sensitive on my system at all (email is all web based) and I would change all our banking information anyway in the event of a break-in.<<
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Just to be the contrarian; Is it smart to keep sensitive emails or any sensitive files at all on the web? I keep all of my sensitive files encrypted on my local drive. In case of a break in my files are secure from all but the NSA. It seems like a much lower risk than having them out on the web where I have essentially no control over them. I’m not really much of a geek so maybe I’m missing something here. If I am I would love to have it pointed out to me.
Fred
David,
Not even sure how I first found you/your site or your newsletter, but it is definitely a breath of fresh air in the PC World. You speak your mind, and more often than not, I tend to agree with you. Your latest venture, crapwire.com, is also great, I love the images, they need very little commentary, they pretty much speak for themselves.
Keep up the great work and thanks!
Hi David,
Thanks for a great bunch of sites.
I’ve been getting tips from PCMech, Webby and been reading you rblog for some time. There’s something in there for me most of the time.
The friendly language and the DIY variety is superb.
Keep up the work, PCMedia team!
Hi,Dave,I just subscribed to your blog and I hope I’ll start receive newsletters from it too.Your PcMech site and show it’s absolutely great,but since my net connection is slow,I can’t listen the show I just watch the chat-room and I ask only if necesary.I love the work you’re doing with this sites,I enjoy receiving your newsletters and the brand-new crapwire is cool.Forgive me if my spell-check is not very good,but since I’ve finnished the school,I forgotted a lot of words,english words.But I apreciate the work you and your team are doing here.Keep up the good work.
Many thanks for the info on installing a SATA drive to my existing setup.It saved me a lot of grief!!
Have a great Christmas.
Steve.
I like the new format of the Newsletter that you sent on Dec. 10th. It was very readable for us old guys that don’t see as well anymore.
Keep up the good work.
Terry
Hello Dave, just a wee note to say I’m enjoying reading your site, I would love to be able to do what you do, earn my income totally from building custom PC’s for people or networks for companies from scratch to finished and functioning article, having my own website and designing for clients. I fully realise there will be downsides as well but to be able to work when “one” feels like” and no-one bossing me about(apart from the wife, but thats life), I envey your lifestyle.
But you see the one disadvantage I have is I’m 45,( yep, a late starter) and at the moment studying at college amongst the wizzkids at NC digital media, hardware and internet studies in Scotland.
So well done Dave in achieving a lifestyle you love having,
Good wishes to you family.
Derek
Hey Dave,
I just wanted to give you a tip of my own for your daily tip emails that you send out. I really enjoy your daily tips and just wanted to contribute.
If you text message google with a question they will text message you back with a response. google’s number is 466453. from what i know this service is free, you just have to pay for the text message charges from you cell provider.
I think this is a great service for people that dont have internet on their phones, but still need information. best of all they respond within seconds!!
Tampa Bay girl here!
Just stumbled on your blog and definitely will be bookmarking and visiting daily. I had an online presence for a few years now, but my focus has dramatically shifted and I find myself starting over from scratch. It’s been hard to focus on my blog because of a family (4 kids) and FT job and FT college classes, but I have a semester off now and hope to invest much more time into it. I think you will be very helpful in that, so thank you!
Angel
“Cheeky Sweetie”
Hello Dave & family ,
You can get Christmas cards at Zeller’s or in the shop. malls up here Cornwall Ont. from 2.50 to 5.00 for about a dozen , or around 8.00 to 10.00 for 15 cards the HallMark very best . Buy next years cards now assuming the world will be In one piece .
HAVE A HAPPY HEALTHY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR .
Bill Ellis
Thanks for your 20 tips, it is a nice ebook, helpful at all. I reccomend you to add sharpdevelop, it is also a nice tool, very good. Bye.
Can you put all the PCMech Tips into a running tab on the dwebsite so we can refer to the particular tip when needed? I save all the tips in my email folder, but would like to create a file in My Documents to save them for future reference. I LOVE PC MECH Thank You for such a GREAT site.
The site design is up to Dave, however all the tips are listed here:
http://www.pcmech.com/article/category/tips/
You can go thru all of them by hitting the “previous” link at the bottom.
Hey Dave
Just wanted to say hello and thank you for all the info i get from your site. I am already using one of your free HMLT sites. How to use HMLT.
Leroy
Just listened to your interview with Yaro Starak. Fantastic story! Glad to hear about your success and all the best in the new year.