ISSUE 21.21 • 2024-05-20 MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan Is that multifactor authentication setup complete and truly ready to handle any situation? Two-factor (2FA) or multifactor (MFA) authentic...
LEGAL BRIEF By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq. It has been apparent for some time that developments in generative artificial intelligence present serious potential for harm. A recent example has made ...
https://www.askwoody.com/2024/protecting-yourself-from-ai-deepfakes/
FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT By Deanna McElveen If you must drag the edges of windows to resize them over and over while working, you are wasting minutes of your life that you can never get back. Sizer by ...
https://www.askwoody.com/2024/sizer-when-a-window-must-be-an-exact-size/
PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley Apple often seems to get its foot in the door first, and last week’s patch release was no different. One day before Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, Apple released its ...
Many many years ago I used Altavista as my main search engine. Now I’m in evaluation mode for folks in my office that want a GOOD search engine but isn’t too geeky. The other day I tried to...
https://www.askwoody.com/2024/so-what-do-you-use-for-search/
We’re still in testing mode for this month’s updates. So far there has been an acknowledged deployment issue whereby Windows Server 2019/KB5037765 may fail with error code 0x800f0982 when you...
Yesterday Apple released several updates for Safari, iOS 17.5, iOS 16.7.8, Sonoma 14.5. Ventura 13.6.7, Monterey 12.7.5, WatchOS 10.5, tvOS17.5. On May 8, they also released iTunes 12.13.2 for ...
https://www.askwoody.com/2024/may-updates-for-apple-and-microsoft/
ISSUE 21.20 • 2024-05-13 ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley For many years, I thought it silly to consider adding an antivirus program or other security software to our phones. Phones were seen as ga...
https://www.askwoody.com/2024/do-you-need-antivirus-for-your-phone/
PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston A breakthrough by researchers at Oxford University makes it likely that you’ll be able to access the power of a quantum computing center — remotely from yo...
https://www.askwoody.com/2024/quantum-computing-is-coming-to-you-soon/
WINDOWS By Lance Whitney Trying to set up Windows 10 or 11? Microsoft steers you toward certain features and settings that will benefit itself more than you. Here’s how to make the right choice...
https://www.askwoody.com/2024/how-to-get-through-microsofts-sneaky-windows-setup/