Have you ever been web browsing when all of a sudden some obnoxious video ad starts blaring through your speakers?  You then have to start start clicking through your tabs trying to find the culprit.  Well there’s an app for that and the two biggest players are AdBlock and AdBlock Plus (unrelated).  These block ads […]

A few important tips about passwords: -Never give out your password to anyone.* Never give it to friends, even if they’re really good friends. A friend can – maybe even accidentally – pass your password along to others or even become an ex-friend and abuse it. -Don’t just use one password. It’s possible that someone […]

If ever your touchpad dies on your laptop or your mouse stops working on your desktop, it’s worth knowing how to move the mouse cursor and navigate around until you can get your system back to normal. Thankfully, there is a feature built into Windows called Mouse Keys that allow you to use the numeric […]

Have you ever stumbled upon a picture of something that you don’t recognize or want to know more about such as a cool car or even a person? You can usually find out more about it by doing a “reverse image search”. Reverse image search will also return pictures that are similar to the one […]

We have been seeing a few of our customers falling victim to a type of malware known as “ransomware” recently. It is particularly malicious and everyone should be taking the appropriate steps to make sure that it doesn’t affect them. Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents or limits users from accessing their system. […]

Google Maps is one of the most popular mapping applications out there, whether it’s on desktop computers or mobile devices, and Google is constantly improving it. In addition to all the cool features the company has added over the years, especially following its major 2012 Google Maps overhaul, there’s one neat trick not many regular […]

With so many types of malicious software being spread around the Internet, it is important to be aware of what spyware is and what spyware does. Spyware is a general term used to describe software that performs certain behaviors, generally without appropriately obtaining your consent first, such as: Advertising Collecting personal information Changing the configuration […]

All the common browsers have a number of shortcuts but some are not as well-known as others. Here are a few helpful browser hot keys and shortcuts that you may not be aware of. 1. Do a reverse search on an image In the Chrome browser, you can do a Google search that shows the […]