Are messaging apps REALLY secure?
Person 1: My messenging app is more secure. Person 2: No, MINE is! Person 3: No way, I ONLY use Signal - it's the most secure! Okay, y'all are fired. What if I told you that NONE of the messaging apps you use are really, truly secure? Sound crazy? Well, it is. The...
How to Remove or Block Cookies in Chrome
I use Firefox as my main browser, which is why I wrote the earlier article Remove individual cookies in Firefox (yes, it changed again). I also use Chrome as a secondary browser since I have 2 screens and too many tabs for one browser! Recently, I had to do some...
How to choose a dumbphone: It ain’t easy!
If you decide to ditch your smartphone, then you have to pick the right dumbphone. "You must choose, but choose wisely." There are many factors that come into play, like where you live and what wireless provider you're using. But it gets way more complicated than...
Surveillance Valley: What you need to know about the Internet
I recently finished reading the book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. Now, I've known for awhile that the world of high-tech - and especially the internet - doesn't quite work the way everyone thinks it does. We worship tech...
How to turn off those annoying notification popups in your browser
Will you allow this site to send notifications? NO! And stop asking me, dangit! For ages now, I have put up with these silly popups. Then, one day very recently, I asked myself why. Why was I putting up with them?! In the absence of a good answer, I figured out how to...
Remove individual cookies in Firefox (yes, it changed again)
Our friends over at Mozilla have done it again! It seems that with Firefox 61, it's now impossible to delete an individual cookie for a specific web site. Oh sure, you can clear all cookies, and you can clear all cookies for a certain site... But if you want to just...
Censored on Social Media? What else is new…
Here we go again! From Alex Jones to Diamond & Silk to Telesur, suddenly social media is penalizing certain voices rather dramatically. The majority of the people I talk to think that the whole thing's ridiculous, and I tend to agree. Most people are even afraid...
Episode 3: Reactivating Windows 10 after a major hardware upgrade (again)
A little over a month ago, I had the opportunity to upgrade a whole slew of Win 10 machines. Back then, I wrote this article: Reactivating Windows 10 after a second major hardware upgrade Now, I thought I had everything figured out in terms of re-activing Win 10 after...
How to turn down your home WiFi’s transmit power
Your average home WiFi router or access point often has a setting so that you can reduce its transmit power level. This is pretty handy to know given what I talked about in my earlier video, Are WiFi, Bluetooth, 4G, and 5G bad for you? The typical range for 2.4GHz...
Run cron jobs in Windows Subsystem for Linux
If you're running Ubuntu or another linux shell in Windows 10 via WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), you've probably wondered about using cron. Cron is super-handy for doing things, like, running a backup. You see, as useful as WSL is, it stores all the linuxy files...
What you can do about 5G, WiFi, etc.
In my last vid, 5G is just the tip of the iceberg, I talked about a bunch of recent studies showing that all this crazy wireless stuff is having negative effects on our health. Naturally, the question on everyone's mind is: What can we do about it?! Well, minimizing...
Help, I can’t delete a file from my Desktop!
So this is a fun one! You have a file on your desktop. It can be anything: PDF, Word Doc, text file, whatever. You try to delete it. Instead of going into the Recycle Bin, you just get the "deleting" dialog box with the progress bar, and then... Nothing happens! YAY!...
Are WiFi, Bluetooth, 4G, and 5G bad for you? Hold on to your hats…
5G is coming, and people are worried. Well, should we be? To answer that question, we need to know what studies have been done on the safety of microwave-frequency digital radio transmissions. We need to look at WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, and 4G studies, as well! After all,...
Reactivating Windows 10 after a second major hardware upgrade
I recently ran into a little problem: I upgraded a puter that had Windows 10 on it, and Win 10 refused to reactivate afterwards! Now, you might have read my guide here: Upgrade your motherboard without reinstalling Windows 10 Well, it works. But... It appears there is...
Left the WiFi on again? Not any more!
I'm not a big fan of WiFi, but I do use it from time to time. It's just convenient to use for some gizmos where an ethernet dongle is not supported. Trouble is, I kept forgetting to turn off my WiFi router when I was done. And then - two days later - I would discover...
How to download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, etc.
Everything these days is online. It's all about the streaming, right? Well, what if you want to download a video for offline viewing? Maybe your internet connection isn't quite "fibrous" yet. Or maybe you want to download something to watch on your smartphone or...