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About vsajewel

Hi...I'm the author of 2 main blogs on WordPress...vsatips...where I write tech tips for mobile devices...primarily ios...2nd is vsatrends...where I write less about tech things and more about everything else. I also host a YouTube channel which I use to better illustrate some of the 'how to's' in my posts. I love everything about technology. Currently, my main interests/platforms are ios, Windows and Amazon Echo. Recently I decided we were spending way too much money with our local cable provider. So I decided to cut the cord. There is a definite learning curve, especially the antennae part, but we successfully did that and are now saving a boatload of money, so I write some about that. I also am extremely conscientious about security because of an event my family endured , so I write a lot about that too. Two sub-categories of security I tend to focus on are the password manager Dashlane and Hardware Firewalls. Last, I take a lot of notes and have been a beta tester for Evernote for many years. I love Evernote! In recent years Apple has beefed up Apple Notes a lot...so it’s become a fairly serious note contender...as long as its OK if you lose or mess up all your Apple note data. I write about those 2 note platforms primarily.

Fix iCloud Photo Sync Issues on ios 10

My iCloud photo syncing keeps stopping on individual devices. These are the the steps I used to get it working again. Continue reading

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How to Secure Your Home Network

All network gateway device’s have settings that can be changed. Yet most people know nothing about them. Consequently, they never visit their router’s settings to tweak things that could make themselves vulnerable too outside attacks. This post tells you how to do that. Continue reading

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Dashlane for ios Has Serious Problems Revealed by the Cloudbleed Incident

I’ve always been a huge fan of Dashlane. But after wanting to use it to change all of my passwords following Cloudbleed, I was extremely disappointed in how poorly Dashlane actually functions on ios devices for this purpose. Continue reading

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How to Use Different Colored Fonts & Sizes in Apple Notes for ios

Any method I tried to paste fonts into Apple Notes, failed to keep the font formatting. In other words anything pasted into Apple Notes would revert to one of the standard Apple note fonts. So I was really excited to discover that I could use an Apple computer to change the standard fonts to different ones, or different colors or sizes, and that the formatting would be retained throughout all of my iPads and ios devices. Continue reading

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