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Android phone settings

To conserve your battery, reduce your cellular data usage, and increase your privacy, here are setti...

 

iPhone settings

To conserve your battery, reduce your cellular data usage, and increase your privacy, here are setti...

 

Windows 11?

Remember how I've been telling you that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows? And...

 

Deleting junk emails, and using DuckDuckGo Maps

Do you struggle with hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of emails in your inbox? Do you...

 

Tracking you on the web

As we use the internet for shopping, research, bill paying or playing games, we know that the...

 

Dumb phones, controlling Windows Updates

Also known as feature phones, dumb phones are phones without the smarts of a smartphone. They come...

 

Analogies and number pads

Analogies are helpful as a comparison between two things to explain technology in simple terms....

 

Virtual private networks (VPN)

What is a virtual private network (VPN), and why would you want one? If we break it down starting...

 

Computational photography, location services

Whether you use a traditional digital camera or the camera app on your smartphone, it takes two...

 

Not secure and 'initialism'

Remember when there was a little green lock in your browser when you went to a secure website like...

 

Ransomware

Ransomware is one of the biggest and fastest-growing threats online. The year 2020 saw a massive...

 

Changing passwords

Yep, passwords again. Once upon a time, say a whole two or three years ago, "they" told us to...

 

Chip shortages, Windows tools

No, not delicious tortilla chips. I'm talking about semiconductor microchips. We have a global short...

 

How to abbreviate online

It started with shortening words to type faster by using fewer characters, but has now spread to...

 

Scammers pretending to be Amazon or Apple

The calls started during the holiday shopping season when lots of people were shopping online....

 

Covering your webcam

Video conferencing, whether we're using Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, BlueJeans or another tool,...

 

Mailboxes and delivery tech, are you looking at me?

Mailboxes and delivery tech You've probably seen the term "last mile" used quite a bit lately. From...

 

AI or ML, your cameras, microphones, location

The technologies and features we attribute to Artificial Intelligence (AI) are based on Machine...

 

Google Docs tips, shut down or restart?

Google Docs tips Have you been using Google Docs more since COVID-19 changed our work and school...

 

Uses for old smartphones and unplugging USB drives

Uses for old smartphones Unless you're trading in your old phone or maybe reselling it yourself to h...

 

Browser privacy

Browsers are the tools we use to get on the internet. Whether we click on the orange Firefox icon,...

 

Death and passwords

Along with wills, revocable living trusts, financial powers of attorney and the rest of the...

 

Notifications, blank Edge, why rebooting works

Turn off your notifications Whether it's your phone, tablet, or computer, notifications can cause a...

 

DVDs gone bad, Apple charges

Before USB drives (also called thumb drives, USB sticks, and other less family-friendly names),...

 

Clearing Windows caches

In its widespread non-technical use, a cache (pronounced cash) is a collection of items of the same...

 

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