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Navas' Tips: Oil Change Scam
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Cool technology, ideas, products, how to, hints, and other thoughts. Thursday, April 23, 2015. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.". Is an excellent full synthetic. Motor oil, a great way to enhance and prolong the life of your motor vehicle. (See Why would I upgrade to a synthetic motor oil? Unfortunately, the business ethics of Pennzoil, a subsidiary of Shell, do not match the quality its products. For Pennzoil Platinum is a certificate (coupon) supposedly good for $20-25 off on your next.
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Navas' Tips: Ad Blocking
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Cool technology, ideas, products, how to, hints, and other thoughts. Saturday, May 23, 2015. On the Web not only are often annoying and performance degrading. But also can seriously compromise your privacy. By tracking you) and security. As an attack mechanism for malware. The best way to deal with ads is to use a blocking extension. In the Web brower (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, or Safari). The best ad blocking extension (as of this writing) is uBlock. See Anti-Malware for Windows. Navas'...
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Navas' Tips: Internet Fax
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Cool technology, ideas, products, how to, hints, and other thoughts. Saturday, July 16, 2011. Despite the explosive shift to digital communications, there can still sometimes be a need for old-style analog facsimile (fax), but thanks to the Internet it's no longer necessary to have a fax machine and fax phone line. Pay As You Go service from Fax1. Currently $0.12 per delivered. Page to the USA. (International rates here. To print to fax. Fax1 no longer works properly and is not being supported.
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Navas' Tips: Choosing a Wireless Router
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Cool technology, ideas, products, how to, hints, and other thoughts. Tuesday, February 3, 2015. Choosing a Wireless Router. Checklist for Wireless Networking. Don't settle for a "wireless gateway". A "wireless gateway" is an all-in-one device that combines a modem (cable or DSL) with a wireless router. They tend to be mediocre, poor performers, especially those supplied by Internet providers. Insist on a pure modem. Buy your own separate wireless router. Make sure the modem is configured in " bridge.
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Navas' Tips: How To Restore Mozilla Firefox
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Cool technology, ideas, products, how to, hints, and other thoughts. Sunday, April 5, 2015. How To Restore Mozilla Firefox. Mozilla Firefox is an excellent Web browser, fast and capable, but you might suddenly find that your settings (bookmarks, tabs, plugins, etc.) have gotten corrupted or even lost. This unfortunate problem can normally be fixed with Windows Vista. Using the following procedure:. Close any Firefox windows that might be open. LOCALAPPDATA% Mozilla Firefox Profiles. You can try restoring...
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Navas' Tips: PC Keyboard in Android
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Cool technology, ideas, products, how to, hints, and other thoughts. Sunday, April 5, 2015. PC Keyboard in Android. PC keyboard in Android. Good as it is, the Google keyboard in Android can be frustrating if you need to enter mixed letters and numbers. You must either slowly long-press numbers, or keep switching back and forth between letters and numbers 3-row layouts. Wouldn't it be nice to have a 4-row layout with both. Letters and numbers like your PC? Open Settings Language and Input.
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Navas' Tips: Stop Xfinity WiFi
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Cool technology, ideas, products, how to, hints, and other thoughts. Friday, May 29, 2015. Got Comcast Internet service? Then you're probably providing open Internet service to the public. And unless you've read and understood everything very carefully, you probably don't even know it! When you rent a wireless gateway*. From Comcast (as most customers do), by default Comcast enables another wireless network called xfinitywifi. Security and privacy are put at risk. Internet service is degraded. But there'...
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Navas' Tips: Windows 10 Upgrade Nightmare
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Cool technology, ideas, products, how to, hints, and other thoughts. Friday, August 14, 2015. Windows 10 Upgrade Nightmare. Windows 10 upgrades have been going so smoothly for me that I got complacent, forgetting about the shaky underpinnings of Windows, and so I got bitten big time. Lessons learned:. Windows 10 compatibility checker is imperfect. Windows 10 won't necessarily work well with Windows 7/8 drivers. Windows upgrade rollback has serious limitations. Couldn't see any audio devices. Maybe re...
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Navas' Tips: Disk Activity Light
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Cool technology, ideas, products, how to, hints, and other thoughts. Friday, March 20, 2015. Unfortunate casualties of the race to produce ever cheaper computers include hardware activity lights for things like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and (perhaps most importantly) disk activity. A good substitute for a missing hardware disk activity light is the small freeware DiskLED. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Wireless HDTV Video (update). Images by John Navas. John Navas on Twitter.
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Navas' Tips: Secure Online Transactions
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Cool technology, ideas, products, how to, hints, and other thoughts. Friday, March 6, 2015. The press is filled with stories on online "hacks" (actually cyber attacks. Compromising millions of credit card numbers and raising serious risks of fraud and identity theft. So what to do? Fortunately, it is. Possible to have very safe online transactions. Most online risk comes from trusting your credentials (e.g., credit and debit card numbers) to third parties. Service like Citi Virtual Account Numbers. To en...
