VPN, do I need it?

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Emergency contacts from your phone?

Cell phone is such a necessity now a day, it is probably hard to find anyone without one. Even many elderly have adapted and learn how to use a smart phone. It is specially nice for the elderly as it really helps to keep them connected and entertained. But have...

Remember MS-DOS?

I’m always amazed that there are still so many occasion, where one needs to drop down to the simple black CMD window to do something. Why? sometime it is just too difficult to find it in the unorganized Windows user interface, and other time there is just no easy...