Google Hangouts is doing well, in spite of its slow start and continued jostle with the likes of Skype, WhatsApp, and Facebook’s Messenger. It even has a nice web app now. What’s more interesting is that it has several useful hidden features that promise to make chatting and video calling smoother and more fun for […]
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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 […]
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Linux Mint and Ubuntu are both known as two of the most newbie-friendly distros around. Ubuntu is the most popular — so much so that Linux Mint is based on it. But there are real differences between the two. Which one is right for you? Background Ubuntu began in 2004 when millionaire Mark Shuttleworth founded Canonical. […]
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There are many reasons to remain anonymous on the Internet. You may live in a country with a restricted, heavily censored Internet service. You may find the prospect of government entities, commercial enterprises and various industries following your every move unnerving. You might simply believe that you are a private citizen, and that that right […]
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We can’t seem to go more than a week without yet another “revolutionary” product that’s going to change the world from a tech company we’ve never even heard about. Cue the huge media storm, and then… they disappear into the depths of the internet, destined to be a bullet point on one of the countless […]
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Every remote team in the world has probably heard of Slack by now. We all know how useful Slack can be for project management and collaboration, right? The problem is that Slack can become a huge waste of time and productivity killer if you let it spiral out of control. In the past, we’ve highlighted […]
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