Miners used to bring canaries with them deep underground, to help detect dangerous gases. If the bird perished, the humans knew to retreat before they too suffered harm. Nowadays, the canary-in-a-coalmine concept extends to other type of alerts & security “tripwires”, such as Thinkst‘s Canary Tokens. Offered as a free service, this website allows anyone … Read more
I am seeing a rise in phishing websites; here’s some info on what you watch out for! When you use a search engine, cybercriminals can game the results. They have ways to get their fraudulent websites to rise to the top of the page, and one method for this is simply to pay for ad … Read more
Some clever people over on Reddit have figured out that the Steam Client sometimes gobbles up too much of your CPU. If you see Steam using too many resources in Task Manager, try these steps. This “Steam Tweak” may help to reduce your CPU usage
If you’re having trouble with Dish Network lately, you’re not alone. On 2/23/23, Dish was hit with a ransomware attack, and they’ve been struggling to recover from it for over a week now. You may notice troubles or outages pertaining to: Ransomware attacks can take significant time and effort to bounce back from. Last year’s … Read more
I get this question occasionally: Will I Have to Pay for Facebook? No. Facebook is going to remain free for all to use. Facebook’s Help Center clearly states this. If you read somewhere that Facebook is going to begin charging everyone for access, that’s just an old hoax that gets passed around every few years. … Read more
Many people ask me, “How long should my computer last?” And I could answer rhetorically with “How long is a piece of string?” but that won’t satisfy. I can do better. Let’s go over some concepts and ballpark ideas that will help you plan and manage your expectations for your computer’s lifespan. Things Fall Apart … Read more
Google has built in a very useful feature with their email service. In Gmail, you can configure something called “Check Mail from other Accounts”, and then Google will continually pull in the messages sent to another email address you control. You can do this with one or many other email addresses! The Steps Before you … Read more
Can you believe it’s been a whole year since the worldwide Mail2World 2022 email outage? Also: Can you believe it’s only been a year and Mail2World has brought us another email outage? OK, so far, it looks like it’s only affecting Shentel email. I am checking in with other Mail2World clients, and they report no … Read more
When using YouTube, please know that many videos allow for Closed Captions & Transcripts. Just click the CC button below the video to turn closed captions on or off. If a YouTube video offers Closed Captions, then it also has a transcript. To see that, look a little further down and to the right of … Read more
If you’ve ever registered a domain name, you’ve probably come across some postal mail, offering to list your website in an online directory. Here’s an example I received recently: Now, I’m not going to outright call this a scam. You may if you want to. But I imagine that if I paid them their money, … Read more