I love the concept of having a complex and unique password for every website and service that I use. If one site becomes compromised, the other remain safe. Remember that reusing passwords is Bad. However, remembering all the unique passwords is a nightmare of impossibilities and writing them all down in Notepad does not seem to be a secure idea. This is where password managers come in to play. They store all your passwords separately from your web browser, password…
Sometimes apps have their own mind and do not behave as we wish. I have dealt with a problem where Microsoft MSN Money App for Windows 10 displays the following message on several tabs “An error occurred” and “Try refreshing?” with a link to “Refresh this page.” Refreshing the page never helped. I tried reinstalling the app, resetting Internet Explorer settings, and registering the App Store with PowerShell, but nothing corrected the problem. I was able to fix this problem,…
Last month, I took action to correct the ultra-slow loading time of my blog. I cleaned up the site and used a few plugins to improve the performance. I went from a “D” score to a middle “B” according to Google’s PageSpeed Insights. Most importantly, the load time according to Pingdom went from 13.6 seconds to 0.914 seconds. This is a huge improvement, and I am delighted by the results. I covered the steps I went through in my March…
My self-hosted WordPress website was slow. Google Analytics Site Speed showed page load times fluctuating from 8 to over 15 seconds. I know that anything over 2 seconds is bad and results in lower traffic and search engine referrals. I have put up with this slowness for years, but now I need to address this problem. I spent time with Google searching and reading about WordPress settings, plugins, content delivery networks (CDNs), and web host configurations that are designed to improve…
