Google has recorded everything you ever said – delete it
If you have ever used Google voice recognition features, such as search, you may be surprised to discover that everything you ever said has been recorded and stored. Find it and delete [...]
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How to protect your data when working remotely
More than 30 million Americans work from home at least once a week, which makes data security increasingly important to many people. Whether a storm is keeping you from the office or you work from home, there are a number of considerations to make [...]
Fix lost or poor or no internet connection on Windows
An occasional problem that occurs with Windows PCs (and Apple Macs too) is a poor or no internet connection. The computer might connect to the Wi-Fi network, but you cannot get a website to [...]
Take control of your Facebook news feed and clean it up
What does your Facebook news feed look like? Is it full of stuff you are not interested in? Are there comments, videos, stories and and other items you just don't want? Are some of the items old and out of date? Time to clean it up and get it under [...]
Fix Chrome problems fast, stop crashes, speed up browsing
Does Google Chrome keep crashing? Is it bloated and slow? Do you wish it was as fast, light and stable as it used to be? If you are having problems with Chrome, here are the solutions and quick fixes you [...]
Don’t read web pages, listen to them instead
Do you find reading web pages tiresome? Would you rather that someone read them out to you so that you could sit back and relax and just listen? This is entirely possible and it will not cost you [...]
Create custom searches in Firefox for speed and convenience
We spend a lot of time in web browsers searching for information such as news, hobbies, research projects, work and so on. Anything that can make searching quicker and easier is welcome and here is a clever trick for Firefox that you may not be [...]
Is the internet too slow? Try this speedup trick
Right from the start, the internet was very slow today. Instead of the fast responsive world wide web, pages were appearing noticeably more slowly in the browser window and some websites were even producing errors. It would sometimes take two or [...]
Got a problem with Windows or the internet? Fix it!
Everyone has problems with their computer from time to time and as they become more complicated, they become harder to fix. Windows is looks very simple on the surface and is easy to use, but underneath it is actually very complicated and hard to [...]
Think you have malware? View network activity
Start your computer and watch it carefully. After some initial activity it settles down into an idle state. The desktop doesn’t change, the icons and folders on it don’t change, nothing else appears on the screen, and you might think [...]
Configure Chrome’s search engines for faster, better results
As you browse the web you may have noticed that many websites have a search facility. Whenever Chrome detects a search box on a web page, it stores it in its search engines list. It isn’t obvious that it is doing this, or why it is doing it. It is [...]
Sort your Chrome bookmarks into order
Adding a website your web browser’s bookmarks does two things: It saves you having to remember the URL and it makes returning to the site a simple point and click process. Unfortunately, the more bookmarks you add, the more of an untidy mess they [...]
How to spot a fake Amazon email
There are several ways that viruses can get onto your computer and one is through email. A malicious program can be attached to an email message and if you open it, you risk infecting your computer. Malware can lock your PC until you pay a fee to [...]
Abandon sticky notes and put Google Keep on the desktop
When you are working on your computer or simply browsing the web for fun, you will occasionally need to temporarily store information. One way of doing this is with sticky notes apps and there is no shortage of utilities, but Google Keep now runs on [...]
Discover alternatives to popular websites
There are tens of millions of websites on the internet, but how do you discover them? Many people know the popular sites for news, sport, their favourite hobby or interest and so on, but obviously these are not the only sites that cover these topics [...]
Which email program is best for Windows?
A desktop email program has not been supplied with Windows since Vista and neither 7 nor 8 has ever had one. Many users that have kept up with Microsoft’s operating system have already sorted out their email requirements, but with the end of [...]
Get dictionary definitions in your browser
There are around a quarter of a million words in the English language and that figure does not include technical terms, scientific words and slang. That's just ordinary everyday language and if you include every word used by English speakers the [...]
What is a webp file?
Have you ever been browsing the web and after seeing an image you would like to save and use elsewhere, you right click it and select the save facility only to find that it wants to save as a .webp file? What is a .webp file and why is it used on [...]