Pyramid Computer Technology

HOW FAR CAN FIREWALL GO?

Don’t be mislead by the Hollywood version of firewalls. A firewall is of little use unless you have a good grasp of what it does and doesn’t do, because it’s not a security solution, it’s a security measure.

What’s it’s good at is blocking direct access to your machine or network from external actors.

However, it’s essentially useless at preventing viruses, phishing scams, many kinds of ransomware, online tracking, impersonation attack.

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It speaks English, French, Arabic, Kiswahili, Pidgin, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Afrikaans.

The robot was built as a 6 feet female Igbo character.

Gmail is used by 1.8 BILLION people, but

most people still don't know how to use it.

Here are 10 basics everyone should know:

1• Snooze Gmail to get more done

When now isn't the right time to respond, but you don’t want to forget it.

Here's How:
- Click the clock icon in your inbox.
- Select a time & date
- The email will reappear during that window

2• Use Gmail advanced search

You're thinking - "Uh oh...I can't find that file!"

Not so fast! Try the advanced search.

You can filter by the sender, recipient, dates, subjects, body text, labels, etc.

Never lose an email again.

3• Use Gmail keyboard shortcuts

Write emails 10x faster with shortcuts.

Here's how:
- Go to settings
- Click "General"
- Turn on Keyboard Shortcuts

Jump into hyperspeed!

4• Make A Fancy Signature

Make a great impression with a powerful signature.

Adding contact details, useful links, your title, an image, etc.

Here's How:
- Click settings
- Go to the General tab,
- Scroll down to Signature.
- Tap on Create new.

5• Cut spam with aliases

Next time you sign up for something, create an alias.

Ex. You join Spotify & your email is [email protected]

Don't use that.

Instead, use coolperson+[email protected]

You'll still get the emails, but you can filter them to their own folder.

6• Schedule emails

Get ahead (and make yourself look awesome) by pre-scheduling emails. Bonus points if you make it look as though you woke up at 5:45 AM.

Here's How:
- Create an email
- Click the down arrow on the send button
- Schedule when convenient

7• Attach files from Google Drive

Prevent questions like "where's that file again?"

Here's How:
- Create a draft
- Click the drive icon (bottom).
- Attach file

8• Increase “undo send” time

You sent an & immediately regretted it.

Give yourself an extra second to catch those errors.

Here's how:
- Go To settings
- Click "General"
- Scroll down to Undo Send
- Click save

9. Gmail add-ons

10x your productivity with workspace add-ons

Some of my favs:
Zoom - Add zoom video links seamlessly
Save To Notion - add emails to Notion
Mixmax - email tracking, scheduling, mail merge
Slack - Send emails to slack

10. Email templates

Massive time saver for repetitive emails.

Here’s how:
- Open Gmail
- Click Settings
- Click Advanced
- Next to Templates, click Enable

Now when you write an email, click the 3 stacked dots in the lower-right corner and choose Templates.

HOW TO REPAIR CORRUPTED PORTABLE HARD DISK

A hard disk drive (HDD) is a common storage device favored by photographers, business owners and personal users. Hard disk corruption is one of the common issues that Windows users experience. When you try to access a corrupted hard drive, it shows an error message, “You need to format the disk in drive: before you can use it.”

The most common symptoms of a corrupted hard drive.

The connected hard drive is not detected by the computer system.

1. Error message: The drive is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

2. Error message: Disk needs to be formatted.
The hard drive shows 0 bytes.

3. Error message: Please insert a disk drive.
Try the following solutions to fix corrupted hard drive:

Fix 1: Run Antivirus Scan on your Hard Disk

Malware or viruses can lead to hard drive corruption. You can run a malware scan on your hard disk to get rid of the issue. Windows comes with a built-in antivirus program Windows Defender Antivirus. To run a scan, follow these steps:

Press Windows + I to open System Settings and then navigate to Update & Security > Windows Security.

Now, click Virus & threat protection on the right panel.

The tool will scan the device. If it detects any virus, you’ll see it in the scan results.
Follow the further instructions given on the screen (if any) to fix the issues with the hard disk. Then, reboot your system and see if you can access the hard disk now.

Fix 2. Run CHKDSK Command to Fix Corrupted Hard Drive:

Both Windows and macOS provide built-in utilities to fix hard drive corruption and recover lost data.

Repair Corrupted Hard Drive in Windows

Step 1. Press Win + X shortcut, then click Windows PowerShell (Admin).

Step 2. In Windows PowerShell, type chkdsk g: /f /r /x (Replace g with the letter of the corrupted hard drive).

Step 3. Hit Enter and wait for the scanning to process.

Annotation of the command parameters:

chkdsk stands for “check disk”
g: specifies the drive to be scanned
/f tells the process to fix any errors it detects
/r tells it to recover the data in the bad sectors
/x forces the drive to unmount so that process could start

Fix 3. Run SFC Scan to Repair Corrupted Hard Drive:

SFC (System File Checker) is another system utility for checking corruption in Windows. The process will scan the integrity of the hard drive and try to fix the corrupted or damaged files.

Step 1. Run Windows PowerShell as administrator as described in Fix 1.

Step 2. Type sfc /scannow and hit Enter.

Step 3. The scanning will start automatically, and then you need to restart your computer.

Note: On Step 2, if the disk is an external drive, please use the command below:

sfc /scannow /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windows