A recent survey, reported in SC Magazine, found that 24% of surveyed LinkedIn users have connected with people they didn’t know on the professional social network, despite LinkedIn’s repeated warnings not to do so. Why is this an issue? Because LinkedIn can be a vector for spear-phishing and other types of attacks. Never thought of it […]
Continue ReadingApple has a free notes app, and it received a rather substantial overhaul with iOS 9 and El Capitan. But should you ditch Evernote for it? That depends. Read the full article: Thinking of Switching From Evernote to Apple Notes? Here’s How MakeUseOf
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Certain sounds can take you back to a different time and place. Any time someone says the word “fight” in a deep voice, I’m immediately transported to a dingy room at the local video game parlour, playing Mortal Kombat 2. As with most things, such sounds have a home on the Internet. In some nook […]
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Buried in bookmarks? I have been there, too. Never again though, because I now have a fail-safe system to tackle bookmarks. The trick is to stop them from piling up in the first place. Failing that, your best bet is to redirect information from bookmarks to other digital repositories. Let’s see some easy ways in which […]
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Somehow, even as more people started getting high-speed internet and video streaming became more mainstream, GIFs still remain intensely popular. As attention spans continue to shorten, GIFs make more sense. They’re the TLDRs of video. But because a GIF is technically an image, you can’t prevent it from playing automatically with click-to-play plugins and the like. But […]
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A Solid State Drive upgrade really improves performance. An SSD boosts snappiness, load times, and reduces power consumption (how an SSD works). The downside: smaller storage capacity. Even so, the trade-off more than compensates for the reduced capacity. But how can you squeeze a large Windows installation onto a tiny SSD? It’s easy. Windows users can migrate from an […]
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