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 […]
My YouTube Journey to date has certainly been eye opening!
So, you want to be a YouTube Star? Well, that was never something I thought I would said to myself… EVER! And yet? Here I find myself with this! Nobody is more surprised than I am; not only that I started it (in July of 2023), but that I’ve kept up with it for this […]
Just some thoughts on Thumbnails and Titles for YouTube
Hello again all! Forgive me everyone, this may be a little long winded on YT… I wanted to share a couple of things I’ve learned this week regarding Thumbnails and Titles for your YouTube Long Form Videos… Everything they say about how you REALLY need to make sure they’re as good as you can get […]