Reset Your PC

It is a fact that the best way to improve your PC’s performance is to reinstall. There is no registry cleaner or any other voodoo magic that will do what a reinstall will do. This is especially true when you test and experiment with software as I do. There is no way around it, a…

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Revive An Old PC Or Chromebook

Chrome OS On An Old Computer Old PCs can still be useful even after viability. Installing Chrome OS on your old computer is a perfect option for that old machine. Chrome OS Flex is a version that you can install on almost anything. Flex can be installed on almost any computer manufactured in the last…

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Get A Cloud Virtual Machine For Free

Yes, I am serious! Oracle Cloud has a free tier of their cloud infrastructure. You get a 200GB SSD, 4 instances of ARM Ampere A1 Oracle cloud CPUs, and 24GB of RAM. Oracle requires you to have a credit or debit card to use the free tier to deter the mischievous from accessing the free…

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Learn The Linux Filesystem

Last month we learned the commands pwd, ls, cd, and basically how to navigate the terminal . Now we will learn the file structure of Linux and how to navigate it. NetworkChuck will show you where in the file-system to do what. Learn more Linux for Hackers.

Advanced Google Tips

Everyday we depend on Google to organize the world’s information. In most situation you can put in any term and the search-engine will find it. This might be called the shotgun method. You get results for all of the words in the quire. That said, Google is not a human and can doesn’t understand context,…

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Linux Course For Beginners

You can get a free Linux workstation in the cloud, and use it to learn hacking skills. You will learn to use Linux and cloud computing. Best of all it’s free! Network Chuck will show you how to get a free Linux workstation a begin to learn the basics of Linux, basics that are the…

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Finding Hidden Startup Programs in Windows

The best way to speed up your computer is to prevent programs and services from starting up when Windows starts. The problem, there are many places to find and stop programs from starting up with Windows. The first thing to check is “Startup Apps”. In Windows 10 and 11 hit the “Windows key” and type…

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Coffee Shop WiFi, Is It Safe?

A few years back I did a demonstration at KIPCUG on login security, and how I could capture someone’s login credentials using a Firefox plugin called Firesheep. In the demonstration I captured a Facebook users credentials and logged into their account. This was possible at the time because Facebook was not using any encryption in…

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PhotoScape X Marks The Spot

PhotoScape X is a free/cheap photo editor that combines the ease Instagram with the power of LightRoom. You can make changes to a photo simply adding a filter for some pop, or you can dive deep and make lots of manual adjustment. In many ways it remind me of Google Photos, but more powerful. The…

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Hidden Windows Features

There are a lot of useful features in Windows 10 that you may not know exist like: Secret Start Menu – If you right-click the Windows Start icon in the low right corner of you screen you will see a menu giving you access right-away to many of the tools may want to access. Storage…

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