Reasons Your Password Was Rejected Password must contain both uppercase and lowercase characters. Password must have eight to twelve characters. Too many characters detected. Pump the brakes, George R. R. Martin. Password cannot contain trademarked characters—e.g., Garfield, The Smurfs. Password cannot contain characters that are dangerously close to trademark infringement—e.g., …

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How to Share Your Wifi Password From Basically Any Device Whenever you have visitors to your home, they are likely going to want your wifi password. You can go the route of an Airbnb and stick the wifi name and password up on the fridge—or keep sharing these credentials manually until you have them memorized. Or you can speed up the process significantly by sharing your… Read more…

LPT: When logging into a computer or website, with a username and password, you can press the tab key to move to the password field after entering your username/email. You can also press the enter/return key to submit your credentials once entered. This may sound obvious to many (It’s a pet hate for me) but I’ve been noticing (I work in IT at a K-12 school) a massive trend where people don’t realise that they can tab between their username and password fields. They always enter their username, then use the touchpad/mouse to select the password field. And to top it off, again use the touchp…