Many millions of people have Google accounts. I have several myself. And whenever I want to look something up on the internet, I use Google because it seems to come up with the most accurate search results, which means I don't have to waste a lot of time

Wikipedia (Wikipedia.com) is one of the most often visited websites on the internet. Virtually any topic you want to research, any well-known person, almost any city - it's hard to imagine anyone or anything of importance not having a Wikipedia page. Howe

Most households and small businesses use a router to distribute the internet signal. You might have purchased the router, or your internet provider may place it with your for you to use, but they still own it. Also, your modem may also be a router (all...

Want to find out your roommate's Facebook password? Need to have a few "below average" grades removed from your college transcript? Would you like to have some embarrassing pictures removed from Google search results? If you find yourself in need of these

My wife Jeanne recently embarked on a new career - she is a nanny for a young couple with a newborn baby girl. She loves babies anyway, so spending her days taking care of one is pretty much her dream job. And of course the baby's parents love  Jeanne be

This week, some fun stuff. It's good to have computer tips and security alerts and warnings to back up your important data, but sometimes we need to take a break and check out some things that can amuse and entertain us. And really, some of these thing...

I recently got an email from my friend Preston, who had this question: "I'm wondering why, when you get a new hard drive, you don't get the full amount of space that it says on the box? When I got my PC a few years ago, it said I had that 500 GB hard dri

After last week's post and podcast about the dangers of sharing your wifi signal with your neighbor, I had several people contact me about how to keep a computer safe "the other way around". Meaning, if you are using your neighbor's wifi signal (with perm

Recently I got an email from Barbara in Maine, with an interesting question. She wrote: "I have a next door neighbor who wants to hook into my internet and share expenses. Is that not legal to do? What do I need to know about it?" Great question, Barbara!

There used to be a traditional set of guidelines that you could go by, and by doing so you could be reasonably sure that your computer was safe from being attacked or infected by a virus or malware. Use a good antivirus, don't open email attachments, don'