Digital Skills Group
This is the group associated with Incubator.org's Digital Skills Learning Center.
Digital Skills Group
The Digital Skills Group includes: Activities and Interactions of participants in CCLAC's Generations Communication Centers (GCC) and students, teachers & mentor's involved with Incubator.org's Digital Literacy Program will find Announcements, Discussions, and helpful information in this Group.
In the modern workplace, digital skills are highly valued;...
The digital age is expanding into all areas of our lives, and it is not just those who work in IT that will need to be alert to this change. What Exactly Are Digital Skills? When considering the digital skills gap, this question is not asked often enough. Cornell University defines digital literacy as ‘the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet’. By this definition, digital skills are any skills related to being...
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Saving and Protecting Passwords
This is usually the moment where you might wonder if you know the passwords for all the accounts you own. Especially for those that automatically log in because you intentionally set it up like that. We need to store passwords and data for many accounts, such as orders for our cable operators, credit card information, copies of personal documents, access data for certain devices, and more. So how do you keep all these passwords safe and make them readily available when you need them?
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Text Document - Most of us started to keep passwords in this way. All you have to do is create a text document with a password list. I suggest that once you make this kind of document, apply some kind of protection. For example, if you create it in Word, you can choose to protect it with a password. If you use Notepad ++, which is my recommendation, you can use one of the encryption programs, such as Veracrypt. The benefits of storing passwords this way are: 1. You have the freedom to keep...
Passwords Storage Program - There are many programs that you can use to save passwords. One of the most famous is 1password, and a lot of users choose Lastpass also. These are not only password-saving programs, but you can also store credit card information, some important notes for you, logins on home devices, and many other things. Both programs have mobile applications that synchronize with each other so that you can store all the passwords on your mobile phone. The good thing about these...
Internet Browser - Most of today's Internet browsers allow you to store passwords. In other words, when you open the page where you must log in with your username and password, your browser will offer you to download this information so that you will be automatically logged in the next time you open the same page. This is probably today's most popular way of storing passwords because it makes the work very pleasant. The benefits of this method of storing passwords are: 1. Automatic login so...
Saving and Protecting Passwords
This is usually the moment where you might wonder if you know the passwords for all the accounts you own. Especially for those that automatically log in because you intentionally set it up like that. We need to store passwords and data for many accounts, such as orders for our cable operators, credit card information, copies of personal documents, access data for certain devices, and more. So how do you keep all these passwords safe and make them readily available when you need them?
Digital Skills Group
In the modern workplace, digital skills are highly valued;...
The digital age is expanding into all areas of our lives, and it is not just those who work in IT that will need to be alert to this change. What Exactly Are Digital Skills? When considering the digital skills gap, this question is not asked often enough. Cornell University defines digital literacy as ‘the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet’. By this definition, digital skills are any skills related to being digitally...
Digital Skills Group
