Great Idea! iPhone’s Do Not Disturb If you don’t already have it set up, here is a great feature for iPhone users.  Do Not Disturb allows you to set up the hours of the day in which calls and alerts that arrive while the phone is locked will be silenced.  However, you can also choose […]

In Case You Didn’t Know… Browse Privately There is no such thing as 100% perfect security, but you can lock down your internet access making a breach much less likely.  Most browsers have a privacy mode that allows you to visit websites without being tracked.  No cookies or history is being stored.  There are a […]

Important Information Heartbleed If you haven’t heard by now, there is a very serious security threat on the internet.  It is a vulnerability in OpenSSL.  Initially the suggestion was to change every password you used.  If you change your password before a site is fixed, you would then have to change it again after the […]

  Smart Idea! Getting rid of unused applications The way in which computers are now sold, PCs and Macs come pre-loaded with many programs and utilities that you will never use.  Chances are also that many of the programs that you aren’t using, but are installed, aren’t being patched with any security updates and therefore […]

  Please forward any interesting topics that you would like to see addressed to me at emtenzer@gmail.com! Alerts! Security Flaw Found in Apple’s iOS 7 Operating system A security flaw has been found in iOS 7.  Download the update/bug IMMEDIATELY!  You can do it from Settings – General – Software Update.  If you would like […]

Please explain… What is a data plan for your smartphone? Understanding your data usage on your phone plan isn’t as easy as counting text messages or minutes.  Here is a little bit of information to help.  A megabyte is a unit of measure.  When you send an e-mail, download a photo or view a web […]

Great Idea! Scan Your Photos Into Your Phone Do you have an old box of 35mm negatives in the closet?  With a $59 SmartPhone Scanner from lomography.com, you can digitize those memories!  You simply feed the negatives into the compact smartphone scanner and a companion app (Lomoscanner) transforms them into picture – perfect digital images. […]

  Important Warning There is a very dangerous new virus/malware out called Cryptolocker.  It is considered ransomware as it absolutely can encrypt all of the files on your computer so they are unusable unless you pay a $300 ransom within a period of time – about 96 hours.  From all that I have read, there […]

  Web Search Tips To search for a phrase, use quotation marks around the words.  So instead of searching on civil war and getting results which include civil or war, type in “civil war” and you’ll see pages that only include the whole phrase. Be more specific – if you want to find articles on creating bookmarks in […]

  In the News Microsoft’s iPad trade-in Microsoft is offering a $200 incentive to help customers switch from an iPad to its Surface tablet.  They are giving anyone who trades in an iPad a $200 gift card that can be used toward the purchase of a Surface or other products found in the Microsoft store. […]