Microsoft and NSA: Partners in Spying on YOU? In the past few days we’ve had several people send us articles about Microsoft and Windows 10 and spying. We’ve written about this before, but there seems to be no end to bloggers and so-called journalists digging up around and coming with silly conclusions, such as comparing Microsoft to the NSA.… Read More »
How to Use Gmail’s Recent Activity feature How many of you who have Gmail accounts have noticed the link at the bottom of Gmail account main page that says “Last account activity… Details” (which Details being underlined as a clickable link)? If you haven’t seen it before, open your Gmail account right now, sign in and click the… Read More »
Gmail Now Has a New Block Sender Feature Gmail has long had a feature that allows you to mark a message as spam, but this week Google has a announced a new Block Sender feature that you can use to block a sender by email address. Once you block a sender any future emails from that nutjob…OUCH EB!… Read More »
Wear the Badger of Privacy We think “Do Not Track” browser features and browser add-ons are pretty much worthless – they assume that everything and everyone is tracking you for evil purposes and thus block everything without regard to what it is, who it is , or if it may be beneficial. Yes, indeed, I tells ya… sometimes… Read More »
What is a VPN? This article was revised on May 9, 2017. VPN is short for Vampires Prowl Nightly. So if you plan to go out when it’s dark we suggest you carry a large cross, a mallet and a big wooden stake. Your best bet is to stay indoors when it’s dark, keep a lot of lights on, and lock your… Read More »
Do ad blockers really help keep you safer? Our friends at Emsisoft wrote a blog about how ad blockers keep you safer (which you can read here). Most always we agree with Emsisoft’s blogs, but his time we think they got it wrong. The most common problems most people have with their computers are PUPs and Malware. Most PUPs and… Read More »