Saturday, December 29, 2018

Report: Huge CenturyLink outage caused by bad networking card in Colorado – GeekWire

Report: Huge CenturyLink outage caused by bad networking card in Colorado – GeekWire: A widespread outage on CenturyLink’s cloud network that lasted almost two days and hampered emergency phone service in Washington and other states was caused by a faulty network management card, according to a customer notice. EARLIER: Widespread 911 outage hits Washington as emergency alerts sent…

(102) How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon - YouTube

(102) How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon - YouTube

Going Dumb: My Year With a Flip Phone | WIRED

Going Dumb: My Year With a Flip Phone | WIRED: The upsides of a downgrade.

What to Do When 911 is Down and You Have an Emergency

What to Do When 911 is Down and You Have an Emergency: It doesn’t happen often, but 911 services can go down. Currently, 911 service is down across several states in the U.S. after a massive outage at a CenturyLink data center. While some of the initially-out-of-service cities are already up and running again, others are still down.

Friday, December 28, 2018

How to Give Friends Emergency Access to Your Online Accounts

How to Give Friends Emergency Access to Your Online Accounts: As the year winds down, now is a great time to get your digital life in order. From organizing your online photos to refreshing your accounts with new, secure passwords or finally cleaning up your browser bookmarks; there’s a lot for you to tackle before 2019 hits.

Thursday, December 27, 2018

5 New Ways to Search YouTube and Find Trending and Awesome Videos

5 New Ways to Search YouTube and Find Trending and Awesome Videos: Frustrated with YouTube's limited search functions or weird video suggestions? Here's how you can search for amazing videos.

Saturday, December 22, 2018

eLearning Cyclops: Free eLearning

eLearning Cyclops: Free eLearning: The following are links to free online courses. Links to courses are added as I come across them. If you have any course that allows open ...

Amazon Scam | Komando.com

Amazon Scam | Komando.com

Monday, December 17, 2018

The 12 Scams of Christmas

The 12 Scams of Christmas

Need a copy of your DVD? Mac OS X does that - CNET

Need a copy of your DVD? Mac OS X does that - CNET: When faced with the necessity of making a copy of an unprotected DVD disc, Mac users should not worry--Mac OS X makes it simple.

A Couple of Quick Bookmarklets For Viewing a Suspended / Deleted Twitter User – ResearchBuzz

A Couple of Quick Bookmarklets For Viewing a Suspended / Deleted Twitter User – ResearchBuzz: As I move away from Facebook I’m spending more time on Twitter. Not that Twitter has some kind of claim of moral authority over Facebook, and I’ll probably move on to more MeWe/Mastodon…

Latest Microsoft Phishing scam | Komando.com -Related to OFFICE 365

Latest Microsoft Phishing scam | Komando.com: This latest phishing scam uses people trust in Microsoft to get you to divulge your personal information

Saturday, December 15, 2018

Bad Password Habits die Hard, Shows SplashData's 8th Annual Worst Passwords List

Bad Password Habits die Hard, Shows SplashData's 8th Annual Worst Passwords List: LOS GATOS, CA (PRWEB) December 13, 2018 -- Bad habits die hard, according to SplashData’s eighth annual list of Worst Passwords of the Year. After evaluating

Friday, December 14, 2018

WordPress.com Plans and Pricing – Get Started for Free Today!

WordPress.com Plans and Pricing – Get Started for Free Today!: WordPress.com offers simple pricing. We bundle hosting, domains, privacy, and security into one low price. Join the platform that powers 32% of websites.

Thursday, December 13, 2018

How to Stop Windows 10 From Collecting Activity Data on You

How to Stop Windows 10 From Collecting Activity Data on You: Another day, another tech company being disingenuous about its privacy practices. This time it’s Microsoft, after it was discovered that Windows 10 continues to track users’ activity even after they’ve disabled the activity-tracking option in their Windows 10 settings.

Saturday, December 8, 2018

Climate change and the 75% problem | Bill Gates

Climate change and the 75% problem | Bill Gates: Bill Gates shares his plan for fighting climate change.

How to Use Google's Chrome Task Manager - Productivity Bytes

How to Use Google's Chrome Task Manager - Productivity Bytes: With Google Chrome's task manager, you can see how each tab and extension is affecting your browsing experience. Here's how to use this tool.

Friday, December 7, 2018

5 Useful Tools For Batch-Editing Images in Windows - Make Tech Easier

5 Useful Tools For Batch-Editing Images in Windows - Make Tech Easier: If you have a ton of images to edit, consider a batch-editing program to do the work for you. Here are the best tools for batch-editing images in Windows.

33 Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try | PCMag.com [Thank you Don B.]

33 Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try | PCMag.com: Google Maps is a Swiss Army Knife chock-full of hidden navigation, geospatial search, and customizat

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

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