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  FBI Recommends Immediately Rebooting Small or Home Office Routers (esp. Linksys, Netgear, TP-Link, & MikroTik) to Block Russian Malware
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  Over-the-air TV
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  @shadyj said in Over-the-air TV:

  Atmospheric conditions eaffect signal strength.

  FTFY

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  Website help - how to put iFrame or JS inside a HTML text box?
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  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10357716/how-do-i-embed-javascript-code-into-a-google-sites-page

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  What does the following Alert mean?
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  You’re using a VPN and they don’t like that, because that means they can’t track you - the filter is on their side. If you try to visit without going through your VPN, that site should load for you.

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  VPNs
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  PIA changed ownerships, stay away from that one until we can figure out what’s what.

  Most of the VPN on the market aren’t as advertised, dedicated ip are actually shared with muti-users, passphrases are usually simple words that are easy to crack. I wouldn’t trust any of them for real privacy. But considering reliability and ease of use, the top one’s are ok for general protection.

  Reference: https://gist.github.com/kennwhite/1f3bc4d889b02b35d8aa

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  Samsung Galaxy S8 or LG V30
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  I ended up getting a LG V20. No edge activation issues, replaceable battery and supposed to be very tough. I may keep this V20 for awhile. The only downside so far is no notification led. That has been easily rectified by “Missed Notification Reminder”.

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  Post your favorite windows software thread
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  @zerenia said in Post your favorite windows software thread:

  LastPass plugins and Android app. Now free synch of passwords across all platforms. Form filler works great!

  Do you run Android Apps inside Chrome ?

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  uMatrix
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  Thanks, What I’m looking for is a list describing what each of the website connections is/does.
  Would be great to be able to printout the list so I can quickly reference it while I’m setting uMatrix to my prefences. Right now I have to google each. What a pain.

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  Windows 10 - free?
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  @mikie Good info.

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  How to "follow" all the social media platforms in one...
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  @mom2jel thanks! I’ll give it a try. I’m trying to keep up with some of my reddit feeds and some of the news sources, etc., so it’s helpful.

  Thanks!

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  Lets talk Chromebooks
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  This topic is deleted!
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  Still Use Windows Media Center?
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  @mom2jel said in Still Use Windows Media Center?:

  Question: is there any benefit to using WMC (or Potplayer / Plex) over Tivo and Chromecast?

  We get Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, and even Plex on our Tivo; my boys like using Chromecast for sports (we only have antenna tv).

  I have Tivo but find WMC much more convenient to use especially with the mouse. Plus I’m not restricted with web access. I’m not limited to what Tivo allows.

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  Nagging Wi-Fi problem
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  Some phones can’t see channels above 13. I had the same problem when the router was set on auto channel. Sometimes the phone would connect, other times not. Finally changed to manual channel select, chose channel 11 and everything’s been fine since.

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  TVGuide.com and its preference settings
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  I like http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/

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  Can you still unlock an AT&T Prepaid phone without using it?
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  Kaspersky Antivirus Hacked by Russian & Israeli Spies
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  I thought that was a bit paranoid until I read the latest Kreb’s blog. There are some circumstantial evidence that they help FSB get their hand on NSA tools.

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  Firefox Quantum 57.0 anyone tried it yet?
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  I tried a few more times, with the box first unchecked and then checked…i’d say it helps prevent it going into wild swings up but i am still using more ram then in Chrome even when it is checked…So, i will leave it checked but am hoping it will improve as Firefox Quantum gets updated…

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  Q: W10 1st use complete privacy setup, no telemetry etc.?
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  @zapjb said in Q: W10 1st use complete privacy setup, no telemetry etc.?:

  @frugalfreak said in Q: W10 1st use complete privacy setup, no telemetry etc.?:

  @zapjb said in Q: W10 1st use complete privacy setup, no telemetry etc.?:

  @FrugalFreak - That article makes me ill.

  Pretty soon it’ll be mandatory to wear underwear on the outside so M$ can check.
  See Bananas (1971) imdb.

  what article?

  A month ago. Are you kidding?

  just got a notification, when I saw your comment.

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  Post your favorite Apps thread
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  Thanks for the welcome, fivetalents! Glad to be here.

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  Dish & Comcast together?
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  No, they can’t use the same cable.

  You say your parents have Dish TV already… so what they have is a satellite dish on their roof (or wherever) and the coax cables run from that dish into the house (from what I can tell they usually just drill right through the wall into the room).

  Any chance the house was originally wired with coax in the walls? If so, you can use those cables for Comcast as they aren’t used by Dish. If you don’t have any coax in the house at all (aside from what is used by Dish) then your only choice is to have something installed.

  I certainly wouldn’t have Comcast do it as I don’t think they do a good job with anything and they’re too expensive, but that’s just my opinion. Perhaps you could convince them to run a cable for you for free as part of the installation? That’s the only way I use Comcast for this. Otherwise I do it myself or find a local handyman to do it for you. You should only need one cable run, as the only thing it’s needed for is to bring the signal to the modem. After that it’s all CAT networking cable or wireless, not coax.

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  Does anyone here use Turbo Lister?
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  Sort what?

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  redpocket
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  So far, so good $29.99 auto refill worked on Halloween

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  Bought a New Windows 7 laptop.
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  Thanks but not what I wanted.

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  Internet Radio App
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  @skh12 said in Internet Radio App:

  i use mixlr and i like amazon music (included with prime)
  and pod casts for specific shows

  Thanks but I’m too cheap to pay when I can get for free.

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  Domain/website hosting
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  @hbg1 said in Domain/website hosting:

  Thanks for the responses. I think I’d be fine without a lot of hand holding, assuming there’s a reasonably functional front end and some directions. I’ll look into the hosts that are being suggested.

  Does Google really offer free web hosting? I tried to see if it would work for me but it seems more for internal sites rather than a regular site. If anyone can clarify what it actually is, that would be helpful.

  Thanks again for the suggestions, and please keep them coming if anyone else has any more ideas or comments.

  google websites is kind of like wix, for few pages website, nothing serious

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  CCleaner hacked with malware
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  @marcopolomle
  Microsoft has it’s own AV tool which is very good.
  McAfee is free from many ISP’s and Banks as long as you are their customer.

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  Android Profile Manager
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  timer for test Pinewood Derby track
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  Thanks for the replies.
  Using the audio editor works pretty good.

  We ended up putting a small metal bucket at the end to make a good bang when the test car hit it.
  Initial testing went exactly as expected.
  From slowest to fastest.
  no weight / front / middle / back.

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  MiniDisc Deck Disk Eject Fix
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  great tip

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  Use A TracFone On PagePlus?
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  The L16C Lucky is Verizon 3G so it does not utilize a SIM card. You would have to SIM swap an active Page Plus SIM card of the correct size into a Tracfone. You can NOT directly activate nor transfer page plus service to a Tracfone.

  For future questions: https://phatwalletforums.com/topic/34/current-tracfone-deals-discussion-thread