📅 November 14, 2017

Standard Notes: A Free, Privacy-Friendly, Cross-Platform Notes App

There’s so many note apps, and most of them are great. But not necessarily privacy-friendly. Here’s an alternative

So what do you use for Notes on your device? Apple’s Notes, Evernote, OneNote, Bear, SimpleNote? There’s so many note apps, and most of them are great. But not necessarily privacy-friendly.

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📅 September 25, 2017

HOW TO: Run Applications from “Anywhere” in macOS High Sierra

how to run any application in macOS High Sierra

macOS High Sierra is a great update and brings lots of new and much needed improvements but that doesn’t mean that some of the changes can’t be annoying.

For example, just like in macOS Sierra, one of the changes that Gatekeeper comes with is that there’s no immediate way to allow unsigned apps to open.

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📅 October 4, 2016

HOW TO: Easily Encrypt/Decrypt Folders on a Mac

easy way to password protect your folders on a Mac

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We already showed you how to easily encrypt and decrypt files on your Mac. Today I’m going to show you just how easy it is to encrypt/decrypt folders on your Mac using nothing but Disk Utility

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📅 September 29, 2016

HOW TO: Easily Encrypt/Decrypt Files on a Mac

easy way to encrypt/decrypt files on a mac

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Let’s say you want to store sensitive files on a flash drive, or maybe send it out via email, or whatever the case may be. You’ll probably want to encrypt that file.

There’s a bunch of apps ( free or paid ) that can do that for you, but there’s also an easy way to do that using a built-in Mac app… the terminal.

Jump over the break to learn how to easily encrypt/decrypt files….

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📅 September 21, 2016

HOW TO: Block Ads Without an Ad-Blocker and Speed Up Your Browser

free method that will block ads without an ad blocker

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Do you like ads? No, of course you don’t. Nobody does. But, unfortunately, that’s still one of the main income source for small and medium sites and blogs. Do you care? Of course you don’t. You just install an ad-blocker. They block the ads and they promise faster browsing.

The problem is that installing extensions, especially ad-blockers, will slow down your browser not make it faster. So what can you do about it?

Jump over the break to learn how to block ads without an ad-blocker and speed up your browsing experience…

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