Tag: software
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Turn Your Old Phone Into a Security Camera With Alfred Home Security Camera
Most people have a spare phone or two lying around that they no longer use. Instead of letting them gather dust, you can easily repurpose them into security cameras! AlfredCamera is a fantastic app that you install on both your spare phone and your daily driver. Once you link them up with just a few…
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Tooly: The Ultimate All-in-One Utility App
In today’s digital age, there’s an app or website for practically everything. The downside? We constantly find ourselves jumping from one tab or application to another just to complete simple tasks. But what if you could access dozens of essential utilities all from a single hub? Enter Tooly—a versatile toolkit designed to simplify your digital…
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A Simple Tool for Creating Custom Bingo Cards
When you need a break from phones, laptops, and gaming consoles, why not return to classic family games with a fun round of Bingo? Easily Design Custom Cards & Materials This website lets you quickly generate printable bingo cards for any number of players, along with matching call-out sheets for the host. You can create…
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How Strong Is Your Password? Find Out with Passwordmonster
These past couple of weeks we talked about passwords pretty often. We’ve shared tips on safely sharing credentials with Bitwarden, storing them locally with KeePass, managing them with AuthPass or NordPass, exploring what Buttercup can do, generating strong passwords with SPNE and Dalenryder Password Generator, and recovering saved logins from external drives using ExtPassword!. This…
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How to Securely Share Passwords with Bitwarden
For many, Bitwarden is the top-tier password manager, especially when it comes to securely sharing login credentials with others. While sharing accounts isn’t always ideal, chances are you’ll eventually want to share access to a service—like Spotify—with family or friends. Bitwarden offers an “Organizations” feature that lets you share logins with another person for free.…
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Buttercup Remembers All Your Passwords
Every time you sign up for a new account, you run into the same security advice: make your password long, mix uppercase and lowercase letters, and throw in special characters. Remembering combinations like that is hard enough on its own—and it only gets harder when you need a unique password for every single service. Buttercup…
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Create Strong Passwords with SPNE
“123456” remains the most common password in the world, leaving your accounts wide open to security risks. So, what kind of password should you actually create, and how secure is it? Strong Passwords Need Entropy (SPNE) tests the strength of your passwords and estimates how long it would take a hacker to crack them. It…
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ExtPassword! reveals all passwords stored on external drives
ExtPassword! is a tool from the talented team at NirSoft, allowing you to extract passwords stored on external hard drives and USB sticks. Along with that, it easily pulls any product keys it finds, plus network passwords, and even Windows security questions and answers. Once you download ExtPassword! from the official site, extract the zipped…
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qBittorrent is a Simple yet Capable Torrent Client
While tools like Deluge, BiglyBT, and Transmission are solid options, qBittorrent is well worth considering if you want something different. It stands out as one of the few clients designed purely for the user. The app is completely free, contains zero ads, and is entirely free of malware or unwanted bundled software, offering a fast…
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Keep Passwords Safe with KeePass
Quick heads-up: our cover photo was generated using AI. When it comes to password managers, some tools store your credentials in the cloud, while others keep them locally on your hard drive. If you aren’t comfortable with cloud-based storage, KeePass is an offline password manager that keeps your data secure in a database stored directly…
