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The ingenuity of hackers, thieves and other miscreants is unlimited it seems.
Every day they come up with new ways to scam, hack and break into computers in order to steal bank account and credit card numbers, photos, addresses, phone numbers and other pieces of sensitive information.
One of their most devious tricks is hacking into people’s computers and spying on them via their own webcams. [Read more…]
Have you ever had to make plans to meet someone at a place that was halfway between your two locations?
If so, you might have found it a bit difficult to find an appropriate meeting place in the general vicinity of the half-way point.
Well, a fantastic website called Meetways that makes finding the most appropriate halfway meeting place between any two locations an absolute breeze. [Read more…]
Unfortunately, Internet outages are to be expected from time to time.
Storms knock down transmission lines, backbone cables get cut via construction mishaps, routing and switching gear go belly up… the reasons for Internet outages are many.
The thing is, when your Internet stops working it can be hard to determine whether the problem is an actual Internet outage or an issue you’re having with your own modem, your router and/or your connected devices. [Read more…]
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Most everyone has lost at least one appliance or electronic device due to a power surge or lightning strike at some point.
But a quality surge protector
For maximum protection, it’s essential that you choose the best surge protector for the device(s) in question. [Read more…]
If you’ve been using the Internet for a while you’ve probably used several of Google’s many services.
In fact, my guess is you use several of them on a regular basis.
For example, do you use Gmail?
How about YouTube or Google Maps?
Or perhaps the Chrome browser?
Although you probably don’t use all of them, Google actually has dozens of popular online services and tools that are used by billions of people world-wide on a daily basis.
Did you know you can easily download your data from almost all of Google’s services right to your computer or mobile device? [Read more…]