How to Cut the Tech Clutter and Reclaim Your Focus

Digital clutter from notifications and unused apps creates mental strain. To declutter, conduct an app audit, silence non-essential notifications, organize your inbox, and minimize browser tabs. This intentional approach fosters deeper focus and a calmer digital life. Start small by implementing one step today for improved productivity and mental clarity.

ProtonMail: Security That Puts You in Control

ProtonMail prioritizes email privacy through end-to-end encryption, ensuring that only recipients can read messages. Developed by CERN scientists and hosted in Switzerland, it requires no personal information for signup. Key features include zero-access encryption, self-destructing messages, and open-source code, making it a user-friendly option for secure communications.

Spammers Using Your Email Address?

Who hasn’t gotten a request to remove them from your spam email list or a bounced email that supposedly came from your account. First of all these spammers probably have not hacked your email . You can enter any name into an email client

How To Spot Scam Email

We’ve all ran across this, an email that comes in that looks legitimate but something about it doesn’t feel right. What do you do with this kind of email? Do you open it to see what it is about. Did your uncle that you didn’t know you had really leave you a million dollars? Does…

What’s New With Gmail

Gmail after several years has a new look and some new functionality. What’s New? New look – The corners are rounder especially the compose but which is now oval instead of rectangular. Big deal! A sidebar for Google’s apps, Smart reply, Snooze an email, Confidential email, A choice of layouts, Find out more about these…

A Look at the New Gmail

Google just updated Gmail with one of its biggest redesigns in a long time. The update brings several security features like confidential mode, which allows you to add two-factor authentication and / or set expiration dates for individual emails. Phishing alerts are also now highlighted in a much clearer way, with bold red boxes that are harder…

Enigmail for Thunderbird

Enigmail is a data encryption and decryption extension for Mozilla Thunderbird and the SeaMonkey internet suite that provides OpenPGP public key e-mail encryption and signing. Enigmail works under Microsoft Windows, Unix-like, and Mac OS X operating systems. Its cryptographic functionality is handled by GNU Privacy Guard.

What is PGP?

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption program provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions and to increase the security of e-mail communications. Phil Zimmermann developed PGP in 1991.

Encrypt Your Gmail With Mailvelope

Mailvelope is a free software for end-to-end encryption of email traffic inside of a web browser (Firefox or Chromium) that integrates itself into existing webmail applications (“email websites”). It can be used to encrypt and sign electronic messages, including attached files, without the use of a separate, native email client (like Thunderbird) using the OpenPGP…

Phishing Emails, How To Stop Them

I got this email from PayPal with a link to see my PayPal statement. Clicking the button activated my Ublock Origin. I copied the link address and pasted it into a text editor and examined it. It was from epl.paypal-communication.com/T/v200000158….  As it turns out it was not a fishing email but it could have been….