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What is a VPN? It is a way to protect your personal information after it leaves your device. What is a VPN and why would you want one? When you access a website, your traffic travels over several different networks before it reaches its destination. For most people, traffic goes from their device over wifi…
Although Chrome allows multiple profiles and offers an Incognito mode, sometimes you want to use different accounts with a web service. Google handles multiple logins pretty well, but there are other sites that do not. Sessionbox allows you to have multiple tabs open to the same site, each tab being it’s own separate entity. Multiple…
Here are some of my favorite Twitter tips from Missing Manual. 140 Unicode characters The length of a tweet is limited to 140 characters, and unicode characters count as one character. For most this would be assumed, but if you know how Unicode characters are stored, they are usually two or more bytes, so you may…
Today I stumbled upon a clip art collection I bought of ten years ago. The collection contains over 600,000 images spread across 29 CDs, in various formats. The vector formatted images are Windows Metafile files with a .wmf extension. Vector images use math to describe the image, and can be resized without any loss of…
Kids certainly need to understand the concepts of programming, the logic behind the computing devices, visible and not, they use everyday. That needs to be a fundamental part of the basic course of study, replacing the rote processing and endless repetition in the K12 curriculum we call “math”. The computer science classes need to be…
Most people these days still see computer coding or programming as a highly technical or even nerdy activity that is only attractive to a minority of the population. In reality, coding is getting to be a newer type of literacy. It is a skill that is useful in everyday life, especially in today’s highly digital…