Will Hollywood’s Lawsuits Shut Down Your Favorite VPN?

May 31, 2022 § Leave a comment

https://youtu.be/cCEOn7cFdHA
If you want to torrent copyrighted material, a VPN will hide what you’re doing.
Well, for now, at least. Read the full article on this topic at,
https://www.howtogeek.com/807819/will-hollywoods-lawsuits-shut-down-your-favorite-vpn/

Taking another look at ShareX

May 31, 2022 § Leave a comment

Screen capture software on steroids.
https://getsharex.com/

5-30-2022 Tech for Seniors Episode 114

May 30, 2022 § Leave a comment

Considering today is a holiday, we were very happy with the turnout.
We covered the following topics today, Cybersecurity update,
Making things larger and smaller, Using discogs.com for your media collection,
Using Calibre for organizing your E-Books, License Plate Scanners and Privacy,
Our music outro was High School USA, followed by a Q&A session.

Weekly Security News Roundup w/e 5-27-2022

May 27, 2022 § Leave a comment

https://youtu.be/P1bmPo_Tx1o
Security-related news thanks mostly to Avast Software.
I’m just a messenger. They do most of the challenging work and research.
https://www.avast.com/en-us/index#pc

Google Docs – Pageless

May 27, 2022 § Leave a comment

https://youtu.be/-zfIvArrX8w
Introducing pageless format for Google Docs.
The pageless format allows you to add wide images and tables,
and view documents without the interruption of page breaks.
More information here: https://bit.ly/3NGny9y

Making Things Larger and/or Smaller – Windows OS

May 26, 2022 § Leave a comment

https://youtu.be/RRSp5g-7A9A
Two easy ways to increase or decrease size when using the internet
or using apps on Windows

FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA info for targeted advertising

May 26, 2022 § Leave a comment

https://youtu.be/1bQVsUtFcb8
Twitter asked over 140 million users for this information to protect their accounts starting in 2013, but it failed to inform them that the data would also be used to allow advertisers to target them with ads. Read the whole story at BleepingComputer.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/ftc-fines-twitter-150m-for-using-2fa-info-for-targeted-advertising/

How license plate scanners challenge our data privacy

May 26, 2022 § Leave a comment

https://youtu.be/orNe0T4VQpg
There’s a massive amount of data in private hands
and without sufficient controls by the government.
My thanks to David Strom for his excellent article.
https://blog.avast.com/license-plate-scanners-data-privacy

Turning Off some Irritating Windows 10 Default Settings

May 25, 2022 § Leave a comment

https://youtu.be/gQNrD1GAz5U
There’s a lot of junk that runs in the background unless you make changes
to the default settings in Windows 10 and 11.
Thanks to CNET for their article that was the inspiration for this video.
https://cnet.co/3wITbtk

Google Lens Update

May 25, 2022 § Leave a comment

https://youtu.be/Yu_bAhuEIb0
Check out Google Lens. It’s been updated.

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