Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
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…]
As you probably know, addiction to prescription drugs is now a serious problem in the U.S., and addiction to illegal drugs has been plaguing our country for decades.
Addiction treatment centers exist to help those affected get off of the drugs, but many of the new treatment centers that are popping up aren’t out to help people at all. They’re simply out to get their money. [Read more…]
Do you or someone you know use the popular “Ever” photo storage app?
If so, you need to know that according to this NBC News story the company behind the app is using your photos for face recognition purposes!
The company says they’re only using their customers’ photos to “train” the app, but who knows what’s really going on behind the scenes?
Do you use Google+ for at least part of your social media activities?
If so, you won’t be able to use it for much longer.
Google has has announced that the consumer division of Google+ will be slowly phased out over the next 10 months, and fully “retired” by the end of August 2019.