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If you're trying to pick someone up from an airport, you generally don’t want to be waiting around for ages. One of the risks of air travel is that there can often be delays. Sometimes delays are short, other times flights can be delayed multiple hours or even cancelled. To reduce the risk of you arriving at the airport to pick someone up only to find that their plane was … [Read more...] about How to Monitor When Someone’s Flight Will Arrive

High-resolution images offer greater detail than low-resolution versions. While a version of an image you liked at one point may have been good as a desktop background on an old 1080p monitor, it won't look so good on a new 4K monitor. There are tools to find images on the internet, ones that work from both images you have saved, and from images hosted on the internet. … [Read more...] about How to Find a Higher Resolution Version of an Image

Privacy and security are important factors in your web browsing. For your connections to websites, security and privacy is provided through the HTTPS protocol, which negotiates an encrypted connection between your device and the webserver. This connection is protected by encryption algorithms that scramble the data so only the transmission can only be read by your device and … [Read more...] about How to Enable DNS Over HTTPS (Doh) in Edge

“EternalBlue” is the name for a leaked NSA developed exploit for a vulnerability in SMBv1 that was present in all Windows operating systems between Windows 95 and Windows 10. Server Message Block version 1, or SMBv1, is a communication protocol that’s used to share access to files, printers, and serial ports over the network. Tip: The NSA was previously identified as an … [Read more...] about What is EternalBlue?

DNS is one of the core protocols for web communication. The protocol is used to communicate with DNS servers which translate the human-readable domain name of a website into the machine-readable IP address that your computer needs to use to communicate with the right web server. Unfortunately, DNS doesn’t use encryption which means that it's possible for someone to listen in … [Read more...] about How to Enable DNS Over HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox

Not all browsers offer the same level of performance as each other. Performance factors include support for the latest JavaScript features as well as support for graphics engines and hardware acceleration. Performance can also vary depending on the hardware of your computer. Newer and more expensive hardware is generally faster than older or cheaper hardware. The general way … [Read more...] about How to Benchmark Your Browser

Encryption is the backbone of security and privacy. This is true for both data at rest and for your internet traffic. For example, the database of a password manager on your computer needs to be encrypted and require a password to unlock to be properly secure. Similarly, your web traffic should be encrypted to be secure from other people monitoring or modifying it. For your … [Read more...] about How to Enable DNS Over HTTPS (DoH) in Chrome

One of the most helpful features that modern devices and software offer is spell-checking. Spell-check uses a pre-configured dictionary and then checks every word that you type against the dictionary. Some spell checks even allow you to add your own words to the dictionary, which is helpful when dealing with things like names. Google Chrome is one of the pieces of software … [Read more...] about How to Enable Enhanced Spell Check in Chrome

Images are a great way to share on the internet and animated GIFs are just that bit better. The animations allow you to show a more complex scene, such as a reaction or something happening. Browsers support displaying GIFs by default, so they work on most websites where you can share images. There are a lot of sites that have a collection of GIFs already uploaded but … [Read more...] about 5 Best Ways to Upload or Share GIFs

If you’re wanting to change careers into a tech field, switch to a new tech field or simply pick up a new skill, there are plenty of online resources that can help. The difficulty is in finding resources and training that employers will respect, so your new-found skills can actually help you get a new job. Thankfully there are a number of well-respected websites and … [Read more...] about Top 5 Online Tech Skills Course Sites