Thursday Tech Headlines – 11JUNE26 Every Thursday, we share tech headlines we find interesting (or disturbing), and we hope you find them informative or thought-provoking, too. You can read them all or pick the ones that interest you the most. So, click on the titles that pique your curiosity! We hope you will like our new Thursday Tech… Read More »
How Your Personal Information is Collected, Sold, and What You Can Do About It Every single time we log onto the internet, check the news, or shop online, we leave behind a digital trail of breadcrumbs. This trail is made up of your Personal Information. It includes obvious things like your name and email address, but it also… Read More »
You’re Not An Elephant I married Emma 61 years ago. She was a beautiful young lady, and I was a rambunctious young cad. We had no plans to grow old together. We were young and full of hope, brimming with untethered youthful vigor and never-ending fairytale dreams. I’m not sure anyone can plan on growing old together any… Read More »
Windows Storage Sense: Windows Housekeeping Made Automatic There are dozens of free and paid programs that you can download to clean up your Windows computer. Windows even comes with Disk Cleanup, which Microsoft was supposed to deprecate some time ago but hasn’t—at least not yet. Of course, then there are PrivAzer and BleachBit, as well as the… Read More »
Cloudeight Freeware Hall of Fame: AbleWord We are happy add to our Freeware Hall of Fame a program we’ve featured before and one I now find myself using almost every day. Let’s be clear right from the start: this is not meant to be a full-blown replacement for Microsoft Word or LibreOffice. If you are creating massive, complex… Read More »
VPNs: Brought to You By GOFF! That’s right. VPNs are everywhere, and thanks to GOFF (Good Old-Fashioned Fearmongering), you’re in deep trouble if you don’t use one. WRONG! Don’t misunderstand me here, VPNs do have a place, but that place is not for those who use their computers at home on their own Wi-Fi network or Ethernet… Read More »