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Do you still use a Windows 7 PC to play Microsoft’s popular Internet-based games?
If so, I’m afraid you’ll no longer be able to play them after January rolls around.
Microsoft has just announced they’ll be shutting down their Windows 7 Internet Games servers on January 22, 2020.
That means the following games will stop working on that day: [Read more…]
Apple has just announced a recall of certain MacBook Pro laptops due to faulty batteries that could overheat and start a fire.
Most (but not all) of the faulty batteries were installed in MacBook Pros that were sold between September 2015 and February 2017.
Luckily, only one specific model is affected by the recall.
Follow these steps to find out if your laptop is one of them: [Read more…]
Do you use Google Maps on your Android phone to help plan your trips and then navigate to those destinations?
If so, before long you might be able to use this extremely handy app to help prove your innocence if you have to go to court over a speeding ticket!
If you’re a blogger and your blog hasn’t yet been secured with SSL/TLS encryption you need to get that done ASAP!
Back in December 2017 I wrote this post warning bloggers about the need to get their blogs encrypted before Google started actively penalizing non-secured sites.
Well, that day has come…
Google recently rolled out an update to their Chrome browser that causes it to now flag unencrypted pages as “Not Secure” right in the address bar!
Up until recently it was widely understood that only sites that collected credit card data or other sensitive visitor information really needed to be encrypted, but Google has changed that by deciding to clearly mark non-encrypted pages as “Not Secure”.
To show you what I’m talking about, I took a partial screenshot of a web page that I knew to be unencrypted at the time I began writing this post (the site has since been encrypted): [Read more…]