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Moneydance Personal Finance
     heard on Sat 4 Jan 25
Moneydance is an easy to use and full-featured personal finance app that doesn't compromise your privacy. With Moneydance, your data is private, encrypted, and never shared. Moneydance makes any financial task easy with online banking and bill payment, account management, budgeting, investment tracking, multi-currency, as well as detailed graphs and reports.

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You don't have enough backups
     heard on Sat 4 Jan 25
Here's the most important lesson I learned in 20 years as a Systems Administrator: You don't have enough backups It's really that simple. Any one backup will fail eventually. Having multiple backups goes a long way toward mitigating that problem. Having multiple backups in multiple places is even better. Having at least one of those backups in the cloud is best.

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Run your Windows® app on MacOS, Linux, or ChromeOS
     heard on Sat 4 Jan 25
Do you like buying Windows® licenses? You do? Great. You do you. For the rest of humanity, CrossOver is the easiest way to run many Microsoft applications on your Mac without a clunky Windows emulator. (Seriously, have you tried emulators? Do you like how they run on your Mac?) CrossOver works differently. It's not an emulator. It does the work of translating Windows commands into Mac commands so that you can run Windows software as if it were designed native to Mac. CrossOver works with all kinds of software - productivity software, utility programs, and games - all with one application.

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Wine - Run Windows on Lunix
     heard on Sat 4 Jan 25
Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

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LapLink PC Mover
     heard on Sat 4 Jan 25
PCmover is the ONLY software that automatically transfers, restores, and upgrades all selected files, folders, settings, user profiles, and even applications from an old PC to a new PC or operating system, including Windows 10. And because most migrated applications are installed ready-to-use on the new PC, there’s usually no need find old CDs, previously downloaded programs, serial number or license codes. Find out which version is right for you below.

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How to Migrate a Windows User to Different Windows 10 PC
     heard on Sat 4 Jan 25
Microsoft removed Easy Transfer from Windows 10, but you can still move user profiles between PCs. Microsoft accounts are easy to transfer; you can move files manually. Transwiz (free) and PCmover (paid) also do a good job. Windows Easy transfer program with "NO" symbol over it. Microsoft introduced Windows Easy Transfer with Windows Vista and supported it in Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. It was a great free option to bring your settings and local user profiles from an old computer to a new computer. Starting with Windows 8, you could choose to sign in with a Microsoft account. Signing in with that same account on any device would transfer many of your settings.

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Free Credit Reports
     heard on Sat 4 Jan 25
Free weekly online credit reports are available from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Credit reports play an important role in your financial life and we encourage you to regularly check your credit history.

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Change display brightness and color in Windows
     heard on Sat 4 Jan 25
In this article: • Adjust display brightness • Night light • Color profile management • Use HDR

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Update Firefox to prevent add-ons issues from root certificate expiration
     heard on Sat 4 Jan 25
Why is this update important? On March 14, 2025, a root certificate used to verify signed content and add-ons for various Mozilla projects, including Firefox, will expire. Without updating to Firefox version 128 or higher (or ESR 115.13+ for ESR users, including Windows 7/8/8.1 and macOS 10.12–10.14 users), this expiration may cause significant issues with add-ons, content signing and DRM-protected media playback.

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Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI
     heard on Sat 4 Jan 25
At the recent World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a counterintuitive break with what he thinks is a long tradition of tech CEOs advising youngsters to learn how to code. Huang argued that, even at this early stage of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, programming is no longer a vital skill. With coding taken care of by AI, humans can instead focus on more valuable expertise like biology, education, manufacturing, or farming, reasoned the Nvidia head.

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