If you’re like me, you love the idea of charts and can think of dozens of useful applications for them, but when it comes to creating them, the frustration starts. Charts often ease decision making. They’re a nice change from staring at […]
If you’re like me, you love the idea of charts and can think of dozens of useful applications for them, but when it comes to creating them, the frustration starts. Charts often ease decision making. They’re a nice change from staring at […]
Would you ditch your default desktop email client, if Gmail had more desktop-like features? Gmail is the leading webmail client, but desktop email clients remain a thing. They’re appealing because you can store your emails locally and access them anytime. […]
Planned obsolescence is a two dollar name for the act of deliberately building products not to last. Rather than creating something that we can use for as long as possible, companies make decisions that shorten an item’s life. This is […]
Wine provides Linux users with the ability to run Windows software outside of the domain of Microsoft. As such, it can aid your transition away from Windows, less bound by platform exclusive software. Wine isn’t perfect, though. Some programs take […]
Of all the types of problems you can have with your computer, network issues might be one of the worst. Though our computers can do a lot offline, being cut off from the internet isn’t fun. Even worse, when you […]
“Critical thinking” is a phrase that leaves many students nervously quaking in their desks. By the time we’ve become adults, though, we’ve largely forgotten it. We imagine that we think critically, but we let our ability to engage with new ideas […]
In their 1996 book The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas Stanley and William Danko outline seven characteristics of truly wealthy people. Surprisingly, those characteristics aren’t things like “inherited wealth,” “have a seven-figure salary,” or “are great investors.” Instead, many of them simply […]
You’re concerned about ransomware, but don’t know how to protect yourself. Don’t worry, just follow these five steps to avoid your data being hijacked and put to ransom. Just in case you’ve somehow ignored (or are unaware of) the threat from […]
Whether you’re a born inventor, insanely curious, or have just been struck by a good idea out of the blue, it can be quite the process to actually turn that brilliant lightbulb moment into a tangible product. Electronic innovations are far […]
Windows 10 is constantly receiving updates, some big and some small, usually without a hitch. But problems can happen: the download getting stuck, the update refusing to install, or the system being caught up in a restart loop. Error messages for failed […]