How to Tell If Your Computer is Being Monitored In today’s world you can’t be too careful Knowing that someone is monitoring your computer is pretty scary, but it’s perhaps even scarier not knowing how to tell if it’s even happening. But it does happen, and could very well happen to you too if you’re not actively blocking it. If someone is monitoring your computer, they might have been doing so for some time and could have seen much of what you were doing....

How To Whitelist Specific Devices On Your Home Network To Stop Hackers An important layer of security everyone should use The way a home network usually works is that anyone with your network passphrase can connect to your home network. However, it’s possible to add another layer of security where only specific devices are allowed to connect. This is called MAC address filtering. Keep in mind however that Mac address filtering isn’t a single security solution....

BSD vs Linux: The Basic Differences So you can get your head around them Both Linux and the varying BSDs (Berkeley Software Distributions) are free and open-source, with more things in common than differences. With this in mind, you may ask yourself, “If they’re so similar, then why do they exist at all? Wouldn’t it be better to have a singular operating system from which to choose?” I can answer this question by also mentioning that their differences are also vast....

How to Find Out What App is Using Your Webcam on Windows 10 In case you need to stop it I will explain a very effective method to find out what app is using your webcam. This way, you can stop it from being used without your permission, or simply close an app to free up your webcam to use in another application. For some reason, Windows 10 struggles to let you use your webcam across multiple apps....

Why Most New Phones are Ditching the Headphone Jack The very sad but honest truth The 3.5mm stereo TRS (tip, ring, sleeve) jack has been around for a very long time. The original 6.35mm version hails from the late 1800s where it was used in telephone switchboards. The 3.5mm version came about in the 1950s and is still widely in use today. This means you could take a pair of headphones from almost three-quarters of a century ago and use them with a smartphone from 2019....