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Think you do enough to secure your passwords, browsing, and networking? Prove it. Not all computer security is about tin foil hats and anonymous browsing. Everyone who uses a computer has a horse in the security race. For the purpose of this post, we're breaking down online security into four essential parts: passwords, browsers, at-home Wi-Fi and networking, and browsing on public Wi-Fi. Within those categories we'll give you a checklist of everything you should do, from the bare minimum to the tin-foil-hat best.Think you've done your due diligence with your security? Jump to any of the four sections below to see how you stack up (and boost your security where you may be lacking): Password Security Checklist Browser Security Checklist Home Network Security Checklist Public Wi-Fi Security Checklist Password Security Checklist Password security has been  popping up   a lot   in the news  recently, but how much you should care is entirely dependent on

Windows offers a setting named Dark Mode that applies a dark theme to apps you get from the Windows Store. It doesn’t affect most desktop apps, or tools like File Explorer, but we’ve got some other solutions for those. Here’s how to get your whole desktop (or as much as possible) looking dark. Enable Dark Mode for Windows 10 Settings and Apps To enable Dark Mode, head to Settings > Personalization > Colors. Scroll down and select the “Dark” option under the “Choose your app mode” section. The Settings application itself immediately turns dark, as will many other “Universal Windows Platform” applications (those you get from the Windows Store). However, it’s up to each developer to support Dark Mode, and many do not. And, as we mentioned before, this option doesn’t affect most desktop applications, including Windows 10’s File Explorer. Those remain white. A few desktop applications, including Paint.NET, do respect this setting—but most don’t. Enable Dark Mode in M

A Recovery Drive lets you boot your system and easily access a number of recovery and troubleshooting tools to revive a failing Windows 10 system. If you haven't done so yet, you need to create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive. That way, you'll be prepared should you encounter a problem with your Windows 10 installation. In Windows 10, you can create a Recovery Drive on a USB flash drive as well as on an optical disc. While both procedures produce the same recovery tool, they are created from different user interfaces. The USB flash drive version is created using a stand-alone tool; the optical disc is created from the Backup And Restore (Windows 7) user interface. Why Microsoft didn't unify the process under one roof, I don't know. In this article, I'll show you both ways to create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive. Caveat Regardless of whether you are creating a Recovery Drive on a USB flash drive or on an optical disc, it is important to remember that a Recovery Dri

One rule to follow in hunting secret Airplanes: Avoid cows. The highways that border Area 51, the U.S. Air Force’s secure flight-test base in Nevada, are fence-free, and cows are poor judges of distance—and they are stealthy. As locals say, “They got tan ones for the day and black for night.” I’m a cautious driver and never had a close call, but it’s easy to see how you could get in trouble there at 70 mph. Seeing Area 51 today is more difficult than it was before 1994, when the government annexed a 4,000-acre vantage point that had been named Freedom Ridge by the Minister, the Ayatollah, PsychoSpy, Agent X, and Hand—a loose community of volunteers, about as unconventional as the Bellman’s crew in Lewis Carroll’s nonsensical poem “Hunting of the Snark.” The closest open vantage point is now a mile more away, and about nine miles from the base. Moreover, the chances of seeing anything are small. In 2002, when the Air Force declassified the Boeing Bird of Prey, a stealth  demo

Setting goals…its a topic I love to talk about and one that people love to learn about.  There are countless articles, books, etc. about setting goals to get further in life, make more money, or to lose weight. But what about the things in life that light us up?  For some, that’s one in the same with what they get paid to do, but for others (i.e. most of us), we put our hobbies and passions on the back burner because we’re so busy with our jobs, families, or other adult responsibilities.  We relegate these to ‘someday’. But, our passions are the things we need to make time for in our lives.  In fact, I don’t see why we shouldn’t also be making goals for those passions! While it may seem obvious, let’s pause a moment and talk about our passions.  What exactly defines a passion? The things we are passionate about are the things that fire us up and make us who we are.  Spending time on things that we’re passionate about brings happiness and fulfillment to our lives.   We hear a lo