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Late at night, with your room dimly lit and your eyes half-open, you find yourself scrolling. One more post. One more news story. Suddenly, you realize an hour has passed. You are no longer informed. You are just more anxious.
That’s doomscrolling. A term that might sound dramatic but describes something many of us do daily. It’s the act of endlessly consuming negative news or content online. It doesn’t help your mood. It doesn’t fix the problem. But you do it anyway. [Read more…]
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These days most home computers are used primarily to visit websites and perform other Internet-related tasks such as checking email and shopping online.
Truth be told, a web browser is the only program that many users ever open in the Internet age.
If you depend on your favorite browser as much as I do, here are a few things you can do to keep it working fast and protect your online accounts from hackers: [Read more…]
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Have you ever had two or more tabs open in your web browser and closed one of them by accident?
Whether it was caused by an errant mouse click or by simply closing the wrong tab, it’s quite frustrating to say the least.
I do it all the time, and it used to frustrate me to no end. But now I simply work a quick bit of magic and the accidentally closed tab instantly reappears!
Well, truth be told it isn’t really magic, but rather a “trick” using the keyboard… [Read more…]
There are times when it would be nice to be able to fire up your favorite web browser and continue browsing all the sites you were visiting the last time the browser was open.
For example, perhaps you accidentally closed your web browser before you finished everything that you wanted to do on the web.
Or maybe a storm rolled in and you had to shut down and unplug your computer in a hurry in order to protect it from a potential lightning strike.
Whatever caused you to end your previous browsing session prematurely, I have good news for you… [Read more…]
Remember those painfully slow days of dial-up, when opening a web page took at least 30 seconds, searching Google took a full minute, and downloading a song could take up to a day?
Well, thankfully, the digital world in Australia has come on leaps and bounds since then, thanks to the likes of 5G broadband and the NBN. Both of which offer a blazing fast and super reliable internet connection for your home.
For anyone who is looking to upgrade their current internet service, these two options are now perceived as the best on the market. But it does lead to the obvious question of which one is best to choose. [Read more…]