Technology is expanding so quickly that it can be hard to keep up.
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YouTube’s subscription service, dubbed YouTube Red or YouTube Premium, offers you the ability to let videos play in the background on your phone, download videos, and access many hours of original content. It’s a useful tool, but if you’re trying to cut back on expenses, subscription services are usually the first thing to go. Unfortunately, …
Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized computer that you plug into a computer monitor or TV. It’s excellent for people of all ages who want to take a hands-on approach to computing and even start learning programming language. Raspberry Pi’s low cost also increases its accessibility. Whether you’ve recently gotten a Raspberry Pi or will …
Microsoft Excel is a fantastic tool for organizing data sets, keeping track of budgets or even tracking business growth over a period. While it is a versatile program, manually typing each of the commands can add hours to an otherwise short project. Excel shortcuts can help make the program even more useful by allowing you …
The word “encryption” is synonymous with data protection, and most people are aware of its functionality in their day-to-day lives within a digital context. It has applications in payment, communication and the concealment of sensitive information, serving as an effective means of modern cybersecurity. While these are all uses for encryption, they don’t answer the …
These days, people listen less and less to the traditional AM/FM radio than they used to. With the internet widespread and vehicles embracing the latest technology, we can usually just plug our phones in or tune into streaming stations and we have all-new versions of radio. These days, most people like to use apps on …
When we talk about unlocking a phone, we mean being able to carry over your perfectly good phone to a new network. Whether you find yourself moving to a new area or hunting down a better deal, you may not be willing to get a new phone from this other carrier when the one you …
In an interconnected online world, you can communicate more easily than ever. Whether you’re calling a business associate, emailing an old colleague or texting your best friend, odds are you correspond with a lot of people every day. With so many opportunities for communication, it makes sense that most people rely on technology to keep …
As anyone who has ever needed to recover deleted files knows, the issue of unintentionally getting rid of files that you needed to keep causes a feeling of dread to form in the pit of the stomach. Fortunately, there are several ways to recover deleted files from a phone or PC — and we’ll go …
Learning to type fast and without errors is one of the most essential skills that you can learn — but if you didn’t learn how to type in school, it can be a difficult one to master. If you want to learn how to type faster to advance at your job or find a better …
We live in a society where information is so readily available that it’s necessary to manage PDF documents that contain sensitive information. It’s possible to encrypt a PDF file with a password, which seems excellent at first. Indeed, taking that step is necessary, but it could pose problems for people who rightfully require long-term …