Shopping Cart and Shopping List - Add and Hold to Save Money

Here's a great tip to help you avoid those impulse buying when you are shopping on line or catalog shopping. 

Website stores and shopping carts make it really easy to add items to your cart at the last minute and make that impulse purchase.  I like to use the shopping list or wish list when I shop online.  Take advantage of these tools provided by Amazon, WalMart and almost all of the online stores.  If you see something you like or think you want, add it to your wish list.  Let the item sit in your wish list for a few days.  If you still want it or need it after a few days you can move it to your shopping card to make the purchase.

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Apple iPhone and Apple Watch - Organ Donor Information

Give emergency medical responders quick access to your organ donor intentions. If you didn’t know, you can add your organ donor intentions to your Apple Health App on an iPhone. If you have a medical emergency or are in an accident, medical response teams can quickly access your organ donor desires. They can do this even if your watch or iPhone are locked.

Open the Apple Health App and click on your profile picture in the top right corner. Select Medical ID and then Edit on the top right. Select Donate Organ “Yes”, you can also choose to register as an organ donor with donate life if you want. You could also add more specific instructions in the medical notes as an alternative.

Turn on Emergency Access

There are two sliders you will need to turn on so that your information is available: Show When Locked Screen Share During Emergency Call

Since your at this page in your Health App, you may also want to add the rest of your medical information to the medical ID.

--> Medical ID for Critical Medical Information

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Keep your computer secure

Here are a few tips to help keep you computer secure.  Remember if you can connect to the internet, then others may be able to connect to your computer.  This will also help you with peace of mind on any scams others may try to pull on you.

1. Don't open emails from senders who you don't know.  Just delete them.
2. Beware of fraudulent emails, again delete them if you are unsure.
3. Don't follow links in emails from senders you don't know or even from emails where a friend or family may have forwarded information.
4. Change your passwords regularly.
5. Use long and complicated passwords with the help of a password manager.
6. Keep your antivirus software up to date.  I use an Apple Mac and so I rely on apple and safari for much of this.
7. Be very cautious of websites you visit.  Make sure you read and understand the URL for unknown web sites.  I heard of someone who typed in SSS. com thinking they were getting to the Social Security government site.  They entered their social security number on the fraudulent site.
8. Keep you computer operating system up to date with the latest security patches.

Stay alert, scammers are everywhere.

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