I’ve been setting up the new Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager on some WordPress websites. And I came across a weird problem. After I added the Google Tag Manager code to the websites (using one of the Google Analytics plug-ins), I found that I could no longer view the front end of the […]
7 ways to improve your cybersecurity for 2022 Over the last year we have seen a massive increase in hacking attempts on micro, small and medium-sized businesses, and I’ve written quite a few blog posts about cybersecurity, many of which focus on social engineering. In this post, I will give seven tips on how you […]
How to create a word cloud using PowerPoint I hadn’t realised this until recently, but you can use Microsoft PowerPoint to create a Word Cloud. Yes, I know there are websites where you can do this (I’ve usually used wordclouds.com), but sometimes I want a word cloud for a presentation, so why not do it […]
Tips for keeping your password safe and secure We have loads of website we log in to these days – I have somewhere around a thousand. That’s a thousand possible places that hackers could get my password from and try to use elsewhere. So I have to keep my passwords safe and secure. Why password […]
Windows 10 login with two factor authentication using a YubiKey I needed to enable two factor authentication on a Windows account. Natively, this can’t yet be done (Windows Hello is not 2FS, but that’s another story). I decided to try and set this up using Yubico’s YubiKey 5. If it worked, this would mean that, […]
Windows 10 won’t shut down properly Recently, my Lenovo laptop (running Windows 10) has started failing to shut down properly. When I click on “Power/Shut down” the laptop shuts down and then reboots back to the login screen. I tried shutting it down just using the power button, but exactly the same happened. After a […]
OneDive stops synchronising after Windows 10 upgrade I’ve recently allowed 2 of my Windows 7 computers to upgrade to Windows 10 After a few days, I realised that files I was creating and modifying in my OneDrive folder were not synchronising with any of my other Windows computers (a mixture of Windows 7 and Windows […]