In order to understand what VPN is, you need to first know what an IP address is? The World Wide Web (WWW) was created in the late 1980s early 1990s. It revolutionize how people and machine communicates. The WWW also rely on one important thing, an IP address. It...
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Ad ID on your phone? What is it?
I’m sure some of you have already come to realize, your cell phone’s setting is getting to be very complicated. If you need to go to setting and try to do anything, you probably need a college degree or higher to try to figure it out. Privacy has been...
Need dark mode for your website?
Screen time! There seems to be no way to avoid it nowadays. We are looking at our computer screen or mobile devices all the time, in addition to the big television. Not sure why, probably due to the initial low resolution and size of screens, the industry started with...
Need to synchronize files? Try FreeFileSync
Do you have files where you use and update in multiple locations, and it is a nightmare to try to make sure that they are in sync? I found a very effective software which is free and open-source, FreeFileSync that does an excellent job for me. What does it...
Math Puzzle 2 – Change for a Dollar?
It is a lazy and hot Saturday morning in the summer, in case if you need something to exercise your brain without any sweat, here is an interesting problem to solve. A customer walked into a small local store, customer asked: “Good morning. Can you please give me change...
Time to cut the cord?
How many of you still have a home telephone line which is a “land line” that uses the good old phone jack? The world has moved on to cellular and voice over IP phones, and the “land line” service tend to be ridiculously expensive. Here is a few things...
How to change iTunes Library Location?
iTunes is a music software innovation that was quite impressive when it was first released back in 2001. It was way ahead of all the competitors and it definitely turns heads with its great user interfaces. It was developed by Bill Kincaid and released by Casady & Greene in...
Got CRC Error?
They really don’t make good hardware anymore, specially hard drive, they seems to be not too reliable nowadays. Here is my story, I have a gigantic external hard drive that is great to store lots of data. I use it for all my data files so that I’m not...
Math puzzle 1- Allowance for your son
Your son wanted you to give him an allowance of $1.00 a week, but you refused and offer to give him only 50 cents a week. After some debates between you 2, your son (who is pretty smart in math) come up with this proposal: “Tell you what, Mom (or Dad)....
Incognito?
We all do, we browse around the internet and found wanted and sometime unwanted information. But are we aware of the trail of information that are left behind that may invade into our privacy? Many years ago, we were taught to be careful about enabling JavaScript and Cookies. But...