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Giveaway: Win 1 year subscription of F-Secure KEY password manager

Thanks to our sponsors F-Secure for making this giveaway of F-Secure KEY possible!  I’m incredibly excited to be giving 10 lucky winners a 1 year free subscription of F-Secure KEY, a password manager that works across all of your devices for iOS, Android, Mac or Windows. You can learn more about F-Secure KEY and its features here, but it’s effectively a solution that gives you one master password to…

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F-Secure KEY makes password management easy and painless     

My thanks to F-Secure for sponsoring Let’s Talk Tech this month. Data breaches are the new reality and it’s no longer a question of if it’s going to happen to you, but when. Nowadays, people manage an unwieldy number of online accounts; at work and at home, and chances are all of them use passwords as the most basic form…

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Giveaway: Win 1 Year Free Subscription Of F-Secure Freedome VPN

Thanks to our sponsors F-Secure for providing us with 5 promotional codes of F-Secure Freedome VPN for this giveaway!  We’re delighted to announce that we’re giving 5 lucky winners a 1 year free subscription of F-Secure Freedome, a VPN solution for all of your devices. Learn more about F-Secure Freedome and its features here. To enter this giveaway, all you have to do…

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F-Secure Freedome VPN: Protect your privacy & access blocked content

Our thanks to F-Secure for sponsoring Let’s Talk Tech this month. We are constantly connecting to public WiFi when we are out and about without realising that it is what it says it is – public. Although public WiFi is a very handy service, it can turn your device into an open book, meaning hackers can act as a…

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Apps & Software Mac OS X

Irvue For Mac: Free Gorgeous Wallpapers For Your Mac Every Day

Although I like Apple’s default selection of wallpapers for Mac, I find myself growing bored of them rather quickly. That’s why I was really glad to come across an app called Irvue by developer Igor Savelev. Instead of wasting time browsing through ‘HD Wallpaper’ websites, Irvue pulls photos from Unsplash.com — a website with a…

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Computing

BatteryBox Review: A Portable Battery For Your MacBook

BatteryBox is a portable battery for your MacBook. With it, you won’t need to search around for wall sockets anymore; just connect it and start working.

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Apps & Software Mac OS X

How To Access The Wi-Fi Scanner In Mac OS X El Capitan

Just a few days ago, the general public was able to download Apple’s newest desktop operating system: OS X El Capitan. For those of us wanting to find out the best wireless channel to use for our network, you have to trawl through a few settings just like with OS X Mavericks and Yosemite. In this short guide, we’ll…

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Apps & Software Mac OS X

Want To Improve Your MacBook’s Battery Life? Stop Using This Web Browser

I rely heavily on my web browser to help me get serious work done, so it needs to perform well, offer plenty of functionality (extensions & plugins) and most importantly: it can’t negatively affect battery life. As the guys at BatteryBox found out, the browser you use could have a detrimental effect on your MacBook’s battery life,…

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How To Mac OS X

How to Use Keyboard Maestro to Archive Email in Mail.app

A while back, we published a short tutorial showing how to archive mail with a keyboard shortcut. This tip in itself is a huge timesaver, but one reader wanted to take things a little further and asked how to use a keyboard shortcut to move messages to specific mailboxes and not only the archive. After…

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F-Secure Freedome: An App That Protects Your Data In Public WiFi Zones

Many thanks to F-Secure for sponsoring Let’s Talk Tech this month. Nowadays we all want to use the public WiFi which is available to us when we’re out and about. The problem is that public WiFi is inherently insecure; it’s designed to provide internet access only and security implications are not a consideration for the provider. F-Secure…