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Saturday, January 14, 2023

The Best Clipboard Manager for Windows in 2023

Check my choice for the best top clipboard tool for 2023. 140+ plus functions and 20+ Power Tools including downloading and running the latest versions of AutoRuns and Process Explorer in 1-click.

Clipboard PlainText Power tool aim is to-do action in least number of clicks. Like accessing clipboard history from the main menu! No other tool does that!

Check it https://clipboardplaintextpowertool.blogspot.com/ - currently most advanced and modern clipboard tool on the market.

v5.1 features; a 1st of its kind, on-the-fly media file Metadata Extraction

When you copy an Office or media, file it pulls metadata and puts it on the clipboard available for you automatically.

Copied 1

DOCX "337777BR - Senior IT Developer (ETL) (1).docx" 2pgs 28.1KB Author:"Chow, Ivey" Mon 11-Jul-22 7:17PM "H:\Downloads2022\337728BR - Senior IT Developer (ETL) (1).docx" - EXIF metadata detected

1 items in 715ms 607µs 300ns with enhanced metadata extracted, if available. Enhanced metadata extraction set at <= 20 items. For full metadata extraction of files, use PowerTool->Launch latest Exiftool...

How To Install Emacs On Windows 10/11 and How to use Text Browser

How to install Emacs on Windows, to get a fast, reliable text browser.

Get a super-fast Text Browser for Windows 7,10 +:

Emacs is a well-known editor that comes with a little-known built-in browser.
Emacs is superbly supported on all platforms, a staple on UNIX since 1976!

The Emacs Web Browser (EWW) is a very basic and fast text/image browser.
Flash and JavaScript are not supported which gets rid of ads.

Choose latest installer from version directory

http://mirror.rit.edu/gnu/emacs/windows/

Latest as of Jan 14, 2023

♠ emacs-28.2-installer.exe - download and install

How to get EMACS Web Browser to work

Search and run EMACS.
In EMACS, choose Tools -> Browse the Web ->
Enter your URL or Keywords:
Surf webpage in text only!!!!!

Notes:

EWW, the Emacs Web Wowser, is a web browser package for Emacs. See full details here.
Unzipped emacs takes is 758 Mbs, but running takes a scant ~100 Mb of RAM. Unlike Google Chrome taking now a whopping 1.2Gb of RAM now, but equivalent to 1 active chrome instance.
Considered Lynx browser, but builds are never up to date.
To list cookies, Choose Eww -> List cookies

My other Emacs articles of interest:

How to remove cookies

https://metadataconsulting.blogspot.com/2020/07/How-to-clear-cookies-from-Emacs.html

Open page from command line

Emacs - How to open a web page URL from the command line

Set font size

How to setup font size for GNU Emacs for Windows

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Hearing Aid Advice Phishing Email with subject Confirm Receipt

For the record, this is a Hearing Aid Advice phishing email attempt that is recently going around, with subject Confirm Receipt

What to do? Report them, goto bottom of page.

From : Hearing Aid Advice <info_xxx@new.1006.a.com>
Subject : Confirm Receipt

PHISHING LINKs;

1. https://s3.amazonaws.com/xxxxx/phi8hlstlfo5epri.html#qs=xxxxx

How to tell this is a Phishing email ?

Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the company's website then forget it.
The best way is to