Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Have you ever seen something in a newspaper or magazine that you wanted to scan but you were away from home and didn’t have a scanner handy?
Or perhaps a friend showed you a document that you would have liked to have had a copy of, but there was no scanner available at the time?
With a wonderful free app called CamScanner, you can capture high quality scans of documents using your smartphone – no computer or stand-alone scanner required! [Read more…]
If you enjoy listening to the radio, chances are you occasionally hear a song and wonder who’s singing it or what its title is.
Well, now you can stop wondering thanks to a nifty free smartphone app called Shazam.
Shazam will tell you instantly who’s singing the song that’s currently playing and what its official title is. Pretty cool, right? [Read more…]
As you probably know by now, Windows 10 is a nightmare when it comes to privacy.
To be blunt, if you accept all of Windows 10’s default privacy settings you won’t have much privacy at all while you’re using your PC.
There are almost two dozen important privacy settings that need to be changed in order to lock down your privacy as much as possible, but unfortunately they’re scattered all over the place throughout your Windows 10 installation.
That makes it very difficult and time-consuming to make all those tweaks, and the task can be virtually impossible if you don’t know where to find all of them!
Luckily, an awesome free tool called Ultimate Windows Tweaker makes it very easy to change ALL of Windows 10’s important privacy settings at one time.
Do you suspect that someone might be using your Wi-Fi network without your knowledge and permission?
If they are, you really need to know about it so you can boot them off and lock down your network ASAP!
“Piggybackers” can slow down your network and make your devices appear sluggish and unstable.
Even worse, they could potentially cause you some pretty serious legal problems if they’re using your network to break the law in some way. [Read more…]
A while back I told you about a great free program called Speccy that lists pretty much every technical detail there is about your PC.
If you have even a passing interest in what hardware and software is inside your computer’s case, you need to download Speccy today.
If you have that same curiosity about what’s inside your Android phone or tablet, a wonderful free app called CPU-Z will tell you. [Read more…]
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