Category: help-and-advice

  • Yes, I’m a book nerd. Always have been and always will be. Ever since third or fourth grade, I remember having to do book reports and actually loving it while almost every other kid dreaded this horrible and time-wasting activity. While other kids selected the absolute thinnest of books that they could get away with,…

    Longreads cover logo

  • In a world gone totally crazy, your private information given to companies no longer seems safe. Security breaches where a bad guy somehow is able to steal databases worth of customer information is becoming a normal type of event. I had just this year received in the mail a couple of letters warning that some…

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    Freezing your credit

  • I’m tired of getting asked by friends and coworkers on how much it costs to use Windows 11. This could either be for a virtual machine that they use to test various software for either personal or some work related purposes. This is rarely a concern on a newly purchased computer or laptop because they…

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    Windows 11

  • When selecting new dynamic screensavers on macOS, you may have experienced the case of the download either being excruciatingly slow or the actual termination of the download itself for no apparent reason. I’ve tried downloading from a VPN connection, public Internet, to my near 1Gbps Internet at work. Nothing seems to make it download faster.…

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    macOS screensaver