If you’ve been paying attention to cybersecurity news, they you probably know that bulk password leaks are a regular occurrence. Rumors of breaches at TeamViewer, LinkedIn, the Russian social network VK, and Twitter have all been swirling about, and by the time this article is published, there’ll probably be a bunch more. Even Mark Zuckerberg got […]
A Solid State Drive upgrade really improves performance. An SSD boosts snappiness, load times, and reduces power consumption (how an SSD works). The downside: smaller storage capacity. Even so, the trade-off more than compensates for the reduced capacity. But how can you squeeze a large Windows installation onto a tiny SSD? More from this article in MakeUseOf.com
One thing that really annoys us about Windows 10 is Microsoft’s aggressive upgrade strategy. Steve Jobs famously said “people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Microsoft must think this is true for Windows 10. And so its developers keep finding new ways to trick Windows 7 and 8 users into […]
Don’t call it OS X anymore, and if you do, Siri will probably correct you. Apple unveiled on Monday at its 2016 Worldwide Developers Conference that the Mac operating system is now called macOS, and the next version will feature the Siri vocal interface and digital assistant. More from this article in PCWorld.com
Aptly enough, iOS 10 has 10 major features, including sweeping new upgrades to Messages, a much more intelligent Siri, and a Memories feature in Photos that recognizes objects, people, and even locations. Check out this article from PCWorld.com
When you open a new tab in Google Chrome, you get the speed dial—a shortcut for all your favorite sites and apps. But you can customize the New Tab page in many ways. For example, there are special New Tab extensions that do much more, like enhancing your productivity, acting as shortcuts for your favorite […]
When you use a messaging service like Facebook Messenger, you have a reasonable expectation that what you say is private and secure. But due to a quirk in how Facebook handles certain pieces of information, just about anyone who knows how to use Facebook’s developer API can view links that others have sent over Facebook […]