Setting up encryption on your wireless router is one of the most important things you can do for your network security , but your router probably offers various different options—WPA2-PSK (TKIP), WPA2-PSK (AES), and WPA2-PSK (TKIP/AES) among the alphabet soup. How-To Geek explains which one to choose for a faster, more secure home network. Read more…
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The Difference Between Wi-Fi Security Protocols: WPA2-AES vs WPA2-TKIP
You’ve likely heard before that you should never defragment your SSD. Conventional wisdom says not only do solid state drives not need defragging, doing so would cause unnecessary writes to the drive. This is only partially true. In fact, Windows does sometimes defragment SSDs—on purpose. Read more…
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Windows Does Defragment SSDs, But It’s Okay
Text expanders (a.k.a., on your phone : “keyboard shortcuts” in iOS and “personal dictionary” in Android) are great timesavers : Tap a few keys, and instantly whole words or phrases are entered. Here’s a very efficient shortcut if you have multiple email addresses: Read more…
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Enter Your Email Address Quickly on Your Phone with the @@ Shortcut
We all have tons of digital accounts—email, social media, shopping, cable services, and so on. If you ever need to close one of these accounts—for yourself or, perhaps, a loved one who has passed away, Everplans offers a comprehensive guide to doing so. Read more…
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This Master List Shows How to Close 60+ Online Accounts and Services
Facebook doesn’t automatically show you all the content shared by your liked pages or even friends, and recently Facebook page owners have been experiencing extreme declines in audience reach . If there are pages or friends you always want to see updates for, here are the settings you should change. Read more…
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How to Make Sure Facebook Doesn’t Filter Out Page and Friend Updates
If you’re a PC gamer, you know that upgrading your computer’s video card will give you the best gaming performance boost . PCWorld argues, however, that a discrete graphics card belongs in most people’s desktop PCs—not just gamers. Read more…
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The Performance Benefits of Discrete Video Cards (Even for Non-Gamers)
We can’t know for sure exactly how we’re going to die, but some ways of going are more common than others. The National Safety Council has calculated the probability of dying from a variety of causes in this interesting graphic. Read more…
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Here Are Your Odds of Dying from the Most Common Causes of Death