A VPN makes me completely safe, anonymous and invisible online right?
If you listen to the different ad’s for VPN services, you’d think that a VPN makes you completely bulletproof with the Harry Potter Cloak of Invisibility over you. The truth is, well… not so much. It’s not that these commercials and services are outright lying to you, but they’re not being 100% truthful either. […]
Do you REALLY know what Cloud Storage is?
Cloud Services – What are they? Cloud services, we’ve all heard of them, and most of us have actually worked with one in some fashion, but what are they? Now I know that hearing cloud storage or “The Cloud” brings up images of some nebulous glowing thing, somewhere on the Internet that somehow is able […]
What do Video Rental Stores, Pay Phones, and Desktop Computers all have in common?
If you said they all don’t or barely exist any more, then you would be right! Wait I hear you all saying there are still plenty of desktop machines around, and you would be correct, so why am I saying that they’re gone? Well, like it or not, the numbers in the market don’t […]
Snapdragon, Copilot+ and Microsoft Recall
Is Microsoft spying on you, collecting your information and selling it to the highest bidder? With the recent announcement of the new ‘Recall’ feature from Microsoft, there has been quite a bit of speculation and blowback on them about this very subject. Recall has even been compared with Malware, people saying it’s designed to collect […]
Should I hide my personal information online?
I recently had a question asked of me, and I’ll try to sum it up here: “If I’m going public and posting content on YouTube and other Social Media sites, how worried should I be about this increasing my vulnerability to hackers and getting compromised? Should I be locking my personal Social Media Pages away […]
Want to post a YouTube Short with a custom thumbnail?
It can be notoriously frustrating if you’ve posted long form videos on YouTube and are looking to do the same with Shorts, but the one thing you can’t seem to figure out is how to get a custom thumbnail! Well, there currently is a way to do it and it only takes a couple of […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the future
I normally wouldn’t recommend someone else’s video because I like to promote my own content (what creator doesn’t?), but I came across a video today that I found both absolutely fascinating and terrifying at the same time (See the link at the end of the post)! Artificial Intelligence is an amazing thing and from it’s […]
Megabytes, Gigabytes, and Terabytes, OH MY!
Today modern computers have vast amounts of storage in them, especially compared to what we had in the not too distant past! We’re all pretty comfortable walking around with little devices hanging off our keychains with volumes of data that could only be dreamed of when man first landed on the moon in the late […]
Why do people ignore backing up their data?
Ah, a question as old as computers themselves! Since the dawn of modern machines there has been one constant among users, and that is most of them never bother to back up their data. This is one thing I’ve never truly understood. You lock your house when you leave, make extra copies of important documents and […]
Have you wiped clean your Windows Machine lately?
Ah Windows. What a marvelous operating system! It’s now almost 40 years old, and in all that time, it’s only kept improving, growing and allowing us all to do things we could only previously dream of. But one of it’s biggest flaws is that in order to keep it operating at peak performance, it truly […]