How Chrome and Safari can help you strengthen your passwords

How Chrome and Safari can help you strengthen your passwords

Post Views: 225 Reusing passwords across multiple accounts is a tempting way to ensure you won’t get locked out of your favorite platforms, but this is a dangerous tactic as far as your online security goes. If hackers gain access to one account, they can get into all others using the same password. Remember—your accounts…

How to create your own new tab extensions for Google Chrome

How to create your own new tab extensions for Google Chrome

Post Views: 240 Creating Chrome extensions usually requires some programming ability, but Google has launched a tool that gives anyone this power, no coding required. It’s called Tab Maker, and it focuses on the New Tab page in Chrome: the screen that loads up when you open a new tab. By default, that page shows…

Google search will now show you which local doctors accept Medicare

Google search will now show you which local doctors accept Medicare

Post Views: 418 A 2019 study in Public Health Reports found that the majority of the surveyed population say they scour the web to find the source of their ailments, with 69 percent saying that the internet is their first destination for medical and health information. However, only 30 to 40 percent of people reported…

Avoid boring, repetitive work by getting your computer to do it instead

Avoid boring, repetitive work by getting your computer to do it instead

Post Views: 235 These actions are typically called macros, though they go by various other names as well, depending on the software you’re using. You don’t need to have any coding knowledge to set them up, and they can save you a huge amount of time at your keyboard. If you’re using a software application…

Google integrated its other apps into Gmail. Here’s how to best use them.

Post Views: 217 If you want, you can have Google Chat and Google Meet open right alongside Gmail on the web. To do this, click the cog icon (top right), then See all settings, and Chat and Meet. Select Google Chat next to Chat to show your text conversations, and Show the Meet section in…

What to know about using Google Calendar’s Time Insights feature

What to know about using Google Calendar’s Time Insights feature

Post Views: 234 Introduced at the end of August, this analytical tool rests within the left-hand sidebar when viewing GCal on a computer—you won’t see it in the app. It takes up a mere five lines (one if you’ve somehow minimized it), so it’s possible to overlook if you’re not constantly poring over your schedule…

Google Earth caught a $2 billion stealth bomber on candid camera

Google Earth caught a $2 billion stealth bomber on candid camera

Post Views: 214 “It’s pretty funny, you’ve got a stealth bomber flying over a farmer’s house, into his field, it looks like he’s a crop-duster,” said the host of My Garden Channel, a YouTube channel that’s usually dedicated to gardening and plant care. But on Monday, the channel posted a video showing how viewers can…