Have the latest news, blog posts, and articles related to your interests delivered right to your inbox — By Henry Irvine Wouldn’t it be great if you could have all the latest news, blog posts, and articles related to your interests delivered right to your inbox? With Google Alerts, you can. Google automatically emails alerts to you whenever new content that matches your search terms hits the web…

Improve your workflow in a few simple set-up steps that take a couple of minutes — By Henry Irvine The recent change in Twitter ownership prompted another mass exodus of users to Mastodon, the world’s largest federated social network. Like Twitter, Mastodon is a microblogging platform. Unlike Twitter, Mastodon is open-source and decentralized across thousands of independently managed server instances known collectively as the Fediverse. New…

Set up a filter to move political spam directly to Trash — By Henry Irvine It might be time to learn how to delete political spam in Gmail. Why? The Federal Election Commission (FEC) decided this week to advance a Google pilot program to allow political committee emails to circumvent Gmail spam filters. The plan allows emails from “authorized candidate committees, political…

Shortening a link masks the original link, and its actual destination becomes unknown. By Henry Irvine Link shortening services are great for squeezing long links into tiny places. A shortened link is a URL with fewer characters that redirects to a longer destination URL. Many reasons exist for wanting to…

Mozilla’s latest browser release includes a new security sandboxing technology — By Henry Irvine Firefox 95 was released today by Mozilla for Linux, macOS, and Windows. The release includes RLBox, a new security sandboxing technology. Mozilla researchers developed RLBox, in collaboration with the University of California San Diego and the University of Texas, to make it easy and efficient to isolate…

Unlock your Chromebook without a Google account password, send and receive text messages, view notifications, and more — By Henry Irvine It is well worth the snippet of your time required to connect a phone to a Chromebook. When you do so, your connected phone unlocks your Chromebook without needing to input your Google account password every single time you log in. Perhaps more importantly, you can send…

The update includes new features and security fixes — By Henry Irvine Google Chrome 96 released to the stable channel today for Windows, Mac, and Linux. With the release comes some improvements and security fixes. The update rolls out over the next several days and weeks. For desktop users who wish to implement the update immediately, please visit How…

Phone Hub is a taskbar widget that expands to display information from your connected smartphone — By Henry Irvine You bit the bullet on picking up a Chromebook to work or learn from home. If you have yet to connect your phone to your Chromebook, you may be neglecting a key Chrome OS productivity and workflow benefit. Android users already know how to connect their phones…

Google Chrome’s free, built-in safety utility helps guard against data breaches, bad extensions, and more — By Henry Irvine The world’s most popular web browser can help improve your online safety. Google Chrome web browser includes a feature called Safety Check. Run Safety Check’s safe browsing tools to detect if you have any compromised saved passwords or malicious extensions installed. …