If you’re reading a story on your phone and you want to read it later on your computer, or you need to see content you’ve been viewing on your phone on your computer’s bigger screen, there’s a simple way to send links directly between your phone and computer browsers. Called...
What is a VPN?
If you listen to podcasts or regularly watch YouTube videos, you'll almost certainly have heard of VPNs through sponsored content. But what is a VPN? How they work and their benefits is often not well-explained. Even worse, if you do a quick Google, you'll typically end up with results that...
Your Computer is Slow Because the RAM is Full — 7 Ways to Free It Up
Your computer freezes during basic tasks, takes forever to open programs, or suddenly runs loud and hot for no obvious reason. These symptoms usually point to one problem: your RAM is full. When RAM (the fast memory your computer uses for active tasks) maxes out, everything slows down because your...
How to Protect Your Privacy on Public Wi-Fi: 3 Risks, 5 Fixes
HTTPS now encrypts more than 95% of web traffic, according to Google, so someone sitting two tables over at a coffee shop can no longer casually read your email or your bank balance just by watching the network. That old warning about public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date. What's...
The Internet is Sharing its Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts and I Can’t Believe I’m Just Learning Some of These
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks but you really can. You can also learn something new every day as an amazing thread on Meta’s Threads has proven. User sarajaclynschwartz innocently asked others to "nerd out with me" and list their favourite keyboard shortcut. Those reading certainly...