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I wanted to send some sensitive information to someone else, and wanted to protect the file. It was mainly text. Natively in Windows for Zip but NOT home edition I hadn’t really done this before so I looked into doing a password protect on a zip file in windows 10, but you can’t with the

Further to my recent article on this topic, I’ve been keenly awaiting the update of the power bill from my last one. Last weeks bill (I think from a week prior, consuming 66.94 kWh And this weeks , consuming 63.12 kWh Almost the same, although this weeks is slightly higher. A bit disappointing. I’d changed

I had my car nicked for the 3rd time, this time my electric scooter was in the back and the insurance company will be paying out part of the cost of it. So I can consider purchasing another scooter or an alternative. I was quite keen on the electric skateboards but they are quite expensive

I’m starting to use more blocks in WordPress and am finding that there are not that many Keyboard Shortcuts within WordPress to use and the process of setting up blocks is quite slow. Shortcodes too slow in writing code So I wrote an aText snippet to allow for a fill in box for the title

Using the pen on the screen. Windows Ink Workspace I noticed that the little ink logo was on my laptop and decided to look up what it does, this is the Windows Ink Workspace icon. I watched a couple of videos on it and it seemed like a handy tool. You could write on your

I saw the following video and was interested in the FreeFileSync tool for syncing between my bedroom PC & main PC for AHK Working directory. I’m always updating them to the NAS so that I’ve got the most current files. This has an appeal in that it doesn’t suddenly start doing a backup just when

The lighbulb lights. This is the missing link that I didn’t understand when I was looking at Google Analytics campaigns . I set one up once but I never understood what it was about. This does explain why I never could figure out how it worked. I wasn’t using the UTM tracking I may have

irefox Auto Text Expander here is a Firefox auto text expander plugin that was modified from Chrome and it may have some uses for filling out forms online and other places like blogs and wordpress where you may want to use some autoexpand (currently setup in aText). I thought it was worth mentioning, but I’m

I’ve been wanting to buy a newer computer and realised that I have a couple on hand that I’m not using, so I thought I’d sell them on TradeMe to 1/ Get rid of them as they are cluttering up the place & 2/ Get a bit of cash so that I can put that

I walk on Lyall bay beach and watch as new properties being built along the foreshore. I wonder how these will be managed with sea level rise. There has been work on the sand dunes and rocks added to try and reduce scouring at East End on beach last year. Lyall bay would be exposed