Do You Need a VPN?

All of the time you see commercials on TV / Internet for VPN (Virtual Private Network) services like Nord VPN, Express VPN, Private InternetAccess and many other. These things must be great because they protect you from all of the bad stuff out there. No more prying eyes on your web searches, you can do…

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Public Library Resources

In this time of pandemic and quarantine me are all looking for media to consume. Many libraries including the Louisville Free Public Library (LFPL) has many resources not the least of which are books. All locations are closed do to the pandemic but the website is chalked full of media including: downloadable book (PDF, other…

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What is Pop OS?

Pop!_OS is a Linux distribution developed by System76, based on Ubuntu by Canonical Ltd. and using the GNOME Desktop Environment. It is optimized to be very fast. Pop!_OS provides full disk encryption by default as well as streamlined window management, workspaces, and keyboard shortcuts for navigation.

What Is Signal?

Signal is a cross-platform encrypted messaging service developed by the Signal Foundation (a non-profit )and Signal Messenger LLC. It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. Its mobile apps can also make one-to-one voice and video calls, and the Android version can optionally function…

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New Pixlr Editor

The New! Pixlr E is a online image editor much like Photoshop with many of the same great features but with none of the price or hassle of installing software. You can use the Pixlr editor on any computer as long as it has a web-browser; including Chromebooks. Unlike Photoshop, which can be intimidating for…

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It’s A Brave New World

Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser. The browser blocks ads and website trackers, and provides a way for users to send cryptocurrency contributions in the form of Basic Attention Tokens to websites and content creators. As of 2019, Brave has been released…

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The Tech Guy Labs

The Tech Guy Labs is the companion website for the Leo Laporte’s “The Tech Guy” syndicated radio show, but you don’t have to listen to the show. The website has all of the valuable information, and it searchable. There are many, many years of answered questions for limitless topics from smartphones, computers, wearables, smart speakers,…

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Get New Edge Browser

The new Microsoft Edge web-browser is not ready and is downloadable. The new browser based on the Chromium Project has been vetted, tested and is ready to go. MS Edge has a new look; similar to other Webkit browsers like Safari, Chrome, Midori, Gecko and Chromium. It has integrated with Office 365, Collections makes it…

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Linux, Finally A Clear Choice

Clear Linux OS is an very highly optimized, rolling release distribution of Linux highly tuned for Intel platforms. Built for productivity environments unlike other Linux distributions Clear Linux has an update protocol that has only vetted packages the guarantee optimum up-time. The updates are done automatically in the background; so no having to stop your…

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Upgrade To Windows 10 Now

As you should know Windows 7 has reached its “end of life”, meaning it will never again get any updates. That said this is a great time to upgrade to Windows 10. Yes it’s still free! What You Need To Do Backup your data. Even though the upgrade has proven to be very reliable, nothing…

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