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Category: Tips
Make Your Internet QUIC
QUIC is an experimental transport layer network protocol initially designed, implemented, and deployed by Google in 2012. QUIC’s main goal is to improve perceived performance of connection-oriented web applications that are currently using TCP How to Deploying QUIC On Chrome To deploy deploy QUIC on your Chrome web-browser open Chrome and type chrome://flags in the…
Using Wyse Cams Outdoors
Wyze Cams (security cameras) are becoming one of the most purchased products on Amazon. They are great especially when you consider the price, only $19.99 and the free rolling online storage. That said I wish you could mount them outside. One day Wyze will produce an outdoor camera until then there are other solutions. Wyze…
CrashPlan Ending Home Backup Service
CrashPlan is a service that does data backup back up to remote servers, other computers, or hard drives. It is available on Mac, Windows and Linux. “Code 42” the company that gives us “CrashPlan” has decided to focus on there commercial product and end the Home version. “CrashPlan” has begun to sunset Home customer but…
Preparing For Disaster
With hurricanes, tornados and the zombie apocalypse on the verge of destroy your happy home I’m sure you have a plan to survive this kind of disaster. If not Patrick Norton and Father Robert are here to help you.
Use an Alternate DNS
Recently my Spectrum Internet became extremely unreliable. The WiFi seemed to be working and the modem seemed to be connecting. The only thing that worked was restarting the modem every hour. Finally when it happened again I deployed a Ping Test of Google (ping google.com). This to said there was no connection. I did a new Ping…
Filter Bubble, Are you in one?
A filter bubble is a result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively guesses what information a user would like to see based on information about the user (such as location, past click behavior and search history) and, as a result, users become separated from information that disagrees with their viewpoints, effectively…
Backing Up to USB Media
Flash Drives: Probably the most common back-up media are USB flash-drives or thumb-drives. These are small, convenient, reliable and very inexpensive. Copy all of your files to a thumb-drive and your backed up. Sizes range from 2 GB to 256 GB. Prices begin at about $5 and up. External Hard Drives: If you need more storage space…
Two Ways to Backup with CrashPlan
CrashPlan is an online backup online data backup service with a difference. You can use the CrashPlan software for free to send an encrypted backup to a friend’s computer and you never have to buy the CrashPlan service ever. Most people go ahead and purchase the service rather than go through the has of setting…
3-2-1 Backup Strategy
The purpose of a backup is to make sure that your digital data can survive any of the hazards that await. Fire, flood, burglaries, hard-drive failure and disasters of all kinds are no problem if you follow some basic rules. With the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy you always have at least 3 copies of your data: One…
Good-N-Free Meetup 