Thursday Tech Headlines – 04DEC2025 Every Thursday, we share some recent tech headlines that we found interesting (or disturbing) and hope that you will find of interest too. You get to pick and choose which ones interest you the most. So, click on the titles that pique your curiosity! We hope you will like our new Thursday Tech… Read More »
Not Fat, Yet… Well, it’s not been a fun year, but it’s getting better. Having two children who live very far apart meant pappy gets two Thanksgiving feasts each year. I’m not known as a temperate kind of guy. So after having a lousy year healthwise, I ate heartily at both feasts… But…I’m not fat. Yet. But… Read More »
Holiday Scams are Coming to Town… You Better Watch Out! Did you know that online scams triple during the holiday season? Just about every week, we get several emails from people who have fallen for an online scam – especially a computer repair scam. They have given their credit card information and access to their computers to… Read More »
How to Manage Your Browser Extensions I think all of us get a little extension crazy sometimes. Sometimes you think you need an extension, and so you add it to your browser, and before you know it, you have 10-15 browser extensions. Most people can’t even remember the extension they’ve added. There’s nothing wrong with extensions –… Read More »
O&O ShutUp10++: Take Back Control of Windows Privacy O&O ShutUp10++ is a popular, free, and portable utility designed to give users hands-on control over the many privacy and telemetry settings in Windows 10 and Windows 11 by consolidating dozens of options that would otherwise require digging through multiple Settings menus, Group Policy, or the Windows Registry. O&O… Read More »
All You Ever Wanted to Know About Wi-Fi 6, 6E, and 7 What’s the Difference Between Wi-Fi 6, 6E, and 7? To explain the differences, we will be using a simple analogy: The Highway Analogy. Think of your Wi-Fi signals as lanes on a digital highway. Wi-Fi 6: The Smart Highway (Efficiency) Wi-Fi 6 is like adding… Read More »