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Enpass is my pick for password manager

I’ve used quite a few password managers. I was an early adopter of 1Password in 2007 and have been using these managers since then. With version 7 of 1Password, the developers moved to an annual subscription revenue model and the Safari browser extension from version 6 stopped working with Safari version 13 in mid 2019. Since I use Safari, I needed to find an alternative. I looked at Dashlane and Lastpass. Password managers do the same thing. They create random passwords for web sites and some apps, and recall them when needed. Newer features include the ability to generate one-time passwords so you don’t need to use an app like Google Authenticator.

I ended up settling on the Enpass manager. It has all the core functions. Works on Macs and iOS devices. But importantly, because it is available for purchase as a lifetime licence, without an annual subscription. A licence is now A$115, it was cheaper in 2019. But I think it’s still better value as I have two iOS devices, and two macOS devices I actively use. And a few more that are less often used. By comparison, this would cost US$40 a year, and LastPass would be $54. Enpass is cheaper.

Here’s a review: https://au.pcmag.com/password-managers/4371/enpass-password-manager. If your needs are simpler, and you only use Apple devices and software, the built in Keychain is going to get a nice upgrade in macOS Monterey. This will give you password management, but probably not one-time passwords.

File transfer services

First there was FTP. Then browser-based services like WeTransfer, and cloud-sync services like Dropbox and OneDrive, and newcomers like Filemail.

But now there are services designed for video creators and production houses:

Here’s a comparison. https://www.filemail.com/the-ultimate-guide-on-how-to-send-large-videos and another one https://massive.io/how-to-send-large-videos/

MBR2GPT: Failed to update reagent.xml

I might be late to the game, but just updated a Windows 10 install from MBR to GPT using the “mbr2gpt” command.

However, as many have discovered, the convert results in an error message as shown in this video.

But, as the video shows, once you reboot the system after changing the bios to UEFI, the error goes away and all is well. Why Microsoft hasn’t fixed this is anyone’s guess. Like so many issues with Windows.

Bitdefender Antivirus Breaks Remote Desktop access

If you get the error “A revocation check could don’t be performed for the certificate” when trying to use RDP, and you use BitDefender free version on your Window computer  you will need to exclude RDP from Bit Defender to allow it to work properly. More from this tip. Seems this was first discovered and the workaround was posted 12 months ago. Well, it still needs the workaround.

 

Generating Post Thumbnails

This blog has entries going back to 2006 and many of the entries did not have a Featured Image set in the post. This meant that the theme didn’t put a nice image in the archive pages. This web page How to automatically set your featured image on WordPress has some useful links and this plugin XO Featured Image Tools fixed the issue and also highlighted posts where the images were broken because of an earlier migration. That’s where the plugin Velvet Blues Update URLs came in to fix them in one click. Highly recommend both plugins as they work on Network WordPress sites. Ones that didn’t Easy Add Thumbnail and Auto Featured Image.