Archive for March 2018

Let’s make this clear. Your hard drive will die. The mechanical device in your computer that contains all of your data will eventually stop working. Moving parts are subject to wear and tear and at some point wear out. Even newer solid state drives which contain no moving parts have a limited life span. These…

I’m sure everyone has heard all of the hoopla over the latest Facebook privacy concerns.  The short version of the story is that a third party personality quiz app on Facebook was used to harvest data about individuals who opted to take it.  Not only was the data harvested for the ones who took it…

A lot of people seem confused about, or maybe just completely unaware of, what the differences are between the 2.4 and 5GHz wireless frequencies.  First of all what the 5Ghz signal refers to has nothing to do with 5G mobile networking technology.  All modern Wi-Fi  routers and receivers support 2.4 Ghz connections.  Many newer ones…