On April 1st this year, US-based security company CloudFlare announced its new privacy-focused DNS service. For the uninitiated, CloudFlare has been involved in Internet security for quite some time and has risen to prominence mainly on the back of its DDoS mitigation service. In simple […]
Limit Your Facebook Exposure In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica affair, many Facebook users are re-examining their privacy options, many don’t care and most of us haven’t a clue how to tweak the many settings in our Facebook accounts. It’s also fair so say
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It’s entirely possible that Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has taken a leaf from Napoleon’s crib sheet in the oft quoted, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” It seemed like that to me anyway as members of congress quite willingly exposed their
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Range Names Named ranges can be great when you are writing formulas. Suppose if you assign the name WidgetPrice to cell A5, you can then use that name, WidgetPrice, in your formulas instead of A5. This will make your formula (and its purpose) easier to
So, you thought the Facebook scandal regarding Cambridge Analytica scraping tens of millions of users’ data was bad enough. Now, respected investigative journalist Brian Krebs has recently revealed that Facebook has been hosting more than 100 cybercriminal/scammer groups with members numbering in the hundreds of
Windows 10 Edition, Version, Build We should all understand by now that Windows 10 is the last version of Windows. When all the previous versions, up to and including Windows 7, have all lost Microsoft support, maybe we can merely call it Windows, without any
In my last article, How To Disable Google Maps Tracking On Android, I mentioned you could clear your Map location history on Google maps, but in that article we didn’t cover it, so I’m going to show you how you can do that now. Why
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A system running like molasses is one of the most common complaints among my clientele and, in most cases, one of the easiest to fix. There can be multiple reasons why a system is running slow, including anything from malware infections to a lack of
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Hanging Indent A hanging indent is created when the first line of your paragraph starts at the left margin but the second and subsequent lines are indented from the left margin. Hanging indents are common formatting in many documents and for good reason. It keeps
All things change, but sometimes these changes are forced upon us whether we like it or not. For me, this came about when the owner of the shop I’ve been renting for the last three years sold up and the new landlord immediately doubled the
With the news talking about all the tracking and other information businesses are collecting about you, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to reduce some of that? I know I would like to and there is one method I found that we all can
