What does “Securing Meta” mean? Let me explain. Your Facebook account is more important than you think. It’s a record of your family, your interactions with friends, your local community, and even the places you go online. Even if you…
Sometimes, you want to share a screenshot of something important. But do you know how to share screenshots without exposing something you don’t want to share? We all like to post and share photos with friends and family. But are…
I’m the unofficial tech person for my family. I’m the one people call whenever there’s a problem with their phones and computers. So, inspired by a time when I didn’t have the right cable, I decided to make an emergency…
Why did I buy the Kodak Slide N Scan digital film scanner? I am the family historian. It’s my job to build the family tree, preserve documents, and organize photos. And I don’t mean digital photos. I mean decades’ worth…
I had an old Dell laptop that I didn’t know what to do with. It was a Dell Inspiron 1520, manufactured in 2007, so old that it came pre-installed with Windows XP. It was so old that it had a…
How did I end up making a Raspberry Pi Google Calendar? It’s a long story. Raspberry Pi computers are made in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They are mostly small devices that are designed to be affordable and…
In my last post “What Are Data Brokers?” I told you about companies that make money by collecting your information and selling it. One of the companies I mentioned was LexisNexis, who I called “a famous law database company.” Strictly…
Have you seen ads from your favorite YouTube vloggers about companies that remove your information from data brokers? And have you ever wondered what data brokers are? Simply put, they are companies that collect information about you (like your email…
A few months ago, I saw someone on Twitter talk about the time he experienced SIM swapping on his iPhone. He ended up losing access to his Apple account, but did get his cell phone number back. Let me explain…
In my last post, Social Media Afterlife, I talked about what can happen to your social media accounts after you’re gone. In the U.S., the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act allows an executor access to someone’s digital…
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