Visiting a website these days is no longer enough. When you leave the website, they then want to know where you are going next. They want to leave tracking cookies on your browser. Thanks to analytics tools like Google Analytics, they even want to register everything from your geographical location right down to what color…
Despite playing around with various browsers over the years,I always end up coming back to Chrome. I know that Google is not the bestcompany when it comes to privacy but they make one hell of a browsernevertheless. Part of why Chrome is so good is the sheer number ofextensions you can install. Firefox also has…
We are in the era of the cloud, where word processing appsare free, online, and available wherever there is an Internet connection. It’sa good time to be creative. Although Microsoft is trying to break into the cloud word processing market with Office Online , it is Google who rules the roost in this area with…
3D printers are basically Star Trek technology come to life. The ability to design an object on screen and have it in your hands hours later is nothing short of miraculous, but the key is finding software that lets your printer translate your vision into plastic. There are a lot of options on the web…
IFTTT, or If This, Then That, is an online tool that makes it easy to automate almost anything . These automated processes are called “recipes,” and anyone can upload them. If you want to post all email subject lines containing the word “goat” to Twitter, you can. If you want your smart lights to flash…
A USB flash drive can save you from all the headaches that come with a broken PC. We already talked about creating a bootable USB flash drive for PC recovery and we also highly recommend having another USB flash drive with portable versions of PC repair programs. Below are just some of the programs you…
As the digital age progresses, content creation continues to be vitally important. In particular, video production continues to grow in importance– both for individuals striving to rise as influencers in a world that revolves around social media and for the 63% of businesses now leveraging video and, of that slice, the 82% finding it to…
Who doesn’t wish they could be a wizard and utter a few words to have magical things happen? Well, we’re not able to show you how to be a wizard, but we can show you how to do a little computer magic. If you’ve got a Windows computer with Windows 7 on it, you’ve got…
Before we begin, understand that this articlealso addresses operating systems (OS), specifically Windows, but the principlescould apply to any software, app, or OS. When you hear or get notification that your software is nearing End of Life (EOL), it’s a bit disconcerting. It sounds so final, as though your software is just going to stop…
A large part of tackling new viruses is figuring out how they work. To do that, you need to reverse-engineer it. The National Security Agency (NSA) obviously must do this sort of work a lot, so they created their own tool, called Ghidra to help them do this. By the way, it’s pronounced Ghee-dra. It…