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Technical Tuesday: Instagram/Facebook Privacy Polices.
Out of the 1 billion people on Instagram what do you think your chances of being found are? Well.. If there is another data breach with Facebook, pretty good. A recent article on Forbes.com said that over 533 Million people’s information was leaked online. This means that your chances of being included in that last leak are pretty high. But that’s what we are here to discuss today. What information does Instagram/Facebook actually have on you? How does this impact your privacy online? How can you tweak a few settings to make sure that those scammers have a hard time getting to your information? Instagram released a page back in…
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Technical Tuesday: How To Stay Safe On Public Wi-Fi
Many of us today are surrounded by free or public Wi-Fi. Burt that is not the necessarily a good thing. In our modern day society we are all attached to our phones/ Mobile devices and basically our entire lives are on them. Meaning that our banking information our bill pay systems and our private emails/ text are all right there. Personally, I try to never use public Wi-Fi if its at all possible. There are a few reasons for this But for the purpose of the post I am going to state the top 3 dangers and also give you some options on how to stay safe. The first on…
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Technical Tuesday: What is Juice Jacking and How do you stop it.
Are you a person who travels a lot or even a little? If so then please for your own safety keep reading. Juice Jacking is when you plug your phone into a public charging station using either the cord provided to you or the cord that you brought with you. Either way, the public charging station then installs a small piece of malware on your phone and BAMM you are hacked. Now, this hacking is not the fault of the company that provided you the charging station (they were just trying to be nice). This hacking is done by a person who is probably miles away and is lurking on…
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Technical Tuesday: What is a Web Browser?
Do you remember the time of clicking the AOL Web browser and seeing the little yellow man running across the screen? Or the time spent sitting waiting for that picture to appear line by line? I Do. And it is pretty amazing how far we have come in the last 15 years. The internet used to be a novelty but now everyone has it. Even our pets have their own social media accounts. We even had to create a digital storage that exist inside the Internet called the Cloud, because we like to save things so often. He Looked like this. But what is a web browser and how do…
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Technical Tuesday: Android Pie is as easy as π.
Come find out about your slice of Pie with Android Pie
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Technical Tuesday: What do our data policies really say?
I was watching the news last night and saw an article that featured people who were shocked and appalled that Facebook could sell their information and these same people claimed that they were not informed that Facebook could do this. Me, being the reader at heart that I am. I went ahead and read the whole Data Policy along with the Terms and Conditions. You can find both here. This Data Policy is for Facebook and Instagram. Through out the entire text it says that it is used for both Facebook and Instagram. Considering that Facebook owns Instagram this is no surprise. Now… For the Disclaimer… I am NOT a…
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Technical Tuesday: Is your computer sick? It may have Malware.
Malware is a broad term that is used to describe all sorts of malicious code. A virus is a part of this Larger Term. The difference here is that not all Malware is a Virus. Some of it is easy and quick to remove and some Malware is hard and needs a special set of skills and knowledge to remove. Always bring your computer to a cerified computer Technician if you suppect any type of Malware. There are a lot of terms that Malware takes the place of. Below I am going to explain each one with the definitions that I have found from the Tech Terms Computer Dictionary. Many…
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Nintendo Switch ( So So Excited)
In Gamers Welcome to the Geekdom I told all of you about how I used to play Zelda and Sonic and Mario…Well, here we are 20 years later and I am still a fan. So imagine this geeky person last night at 11pm… I was completely absorbed in the NINTENDO SWITCH Event. I didn’t move for anything and with all that excitement bubbling I could hardly sit still. It was a test of my self control to not visit the GameStop website and pre-order myself one. At the beginning of the event they told us the relevant information… and here it is again (in case you missed it.)The Nintendo Switch…
