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Microsoft is making a few UI changes across its entire product line in anticipation of rolling out Windows 11.  Early this year (2021) the company announced that they were updating the UI for Office 365 and Office 2021. Over the summer small groups of users...

Password is one of the ways online accounts are protected.  Complexity of a password is very important.  Hackers are now able to use brute force to crack passwords.  If a password is made up of all lower case alphabets, it takes minutes to crack it.  A password protects...

It's no real secret that Microsoft has never been a big fan of Chrome, FireFox, or any other web browser that it didn't build.  The company clearly hasn't gotten over the fact that it lost the browser wars and lost them handily. That's why it keeps trying periodically...

Microsoft has had a long and interesting relationship with its venerable "Paint" app. Most people are familiar with Paint.  It's been around since the earliest versions of Windows and let's be honest it was never a great application. It allows users to do the basics...

Have you had your DNA tested by DDC (DNA Diagnostic Center)? If so be advised that the company was recently hacked and that the attackers were able to make off with data impacting 2,102,436 people.  According to the company's disclosure statement the breach occurred...

Do you own an iPhone 12 or 13? Have you been dealing with dropped calls? If so then Apple has good news and a fix for that. Simply upgrade to iOS 15.11 and you should be good to go. 15.11 is a minor update that only contains a single entry in the change log. Literally the...

According to a report recently released by Abnormal Security there's been a huge upsurge of instances of people getting scammed after visiting what they thought were Global Entry, NEXUS, and TSA PreCheck service sites. The issue is that scammers are building very...

Some months back YouTube announced that it would begin experimenting with the notion of hiding the number of down votes or dislikes that displayed content receives. At present for most of the content on the platform the number of "thumbs down" votes is displayed alongside...

Twitter hasn't had a very good relationship with auto-cropping. Images just haven't historically displayed very well on the platform. Fortunately that is soon changing. The company recently announced that it is dropping crop on the web altogether on both its Android and...

One of the things that has allowed social media platforms to grow so quickly and utterly dominate the internet is the fact that they're free to use. They're not completely free however because users are required to give up a lot of personal information. The bottom line is...