Author: ProactiveComputing

Collaborating on a document in Google Chat saves you time and a couple of steps. With a simple click, you can create a Docs, Sheets,…

Ever wonder what birds are hanging around in your neck of the woods? Want to know which specific type of bird is waking you up…

Google doesn’t list its Weather app on the Play Store, but you can still add it to your home screen by using the official Google…

How can you download Instagram Reels? If this is a question surfacing in your mind, then you are in the right place. In this guide,…

Screenshots and images downloaded from the web are usually saved as JPG or PNG files. Sometimes, you might need to convert these files to PDF…

Outside of your phone, your PC is likely the one piece of technology you use the most. If for no other reason than that, you…

Earthlings were privy to an exciting astronomical event last month: an annular solar eclipse, which cast a lunar shadow across the Arctic Circle. Today NASA…

Trying to sell your house in a competitive market can feel like an uphill battle. Shooting a video can help set you apart from the…

Enlarge / A report this week indicates that the problem of high-caliber spyware is far more widespread than previously feared. (credit: Pau Barrena | Getty…

Are you afraid of the Mac command line? Learning a few simple commands can help you build your confidence and shed that fear. You might…

Kaseya, an IT management software firm, says that it’s obtained the REvil universal decryption key through a “trusted third party.” This should help Kaseya recover…

Enlarge (credit: CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) A new bill introduced Thursday would hold Facebook, Twitter, and other social media companies responsible for amplifying conspiracies and falsehoods…

A United Airlines flight headed out of San Fransisco International Airport was hurriedly deboarded Thursday afternoon after staff aboard the plane announced an urgent threat….

When using a Mac, it’s quite possible that the only sound-related thing you’ll change on your computer is the volume. But in some cases, you…

We acclimatize to dangerous tech creep in a series of fuck-it moments until the point at which we realize a foreseeably bad network is so…

For the past few years, we’ve seen companies like Facebook either endlessly shrug off the misinformation problems on their platforms or issue half-assed fixes meant…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is reigniting her push for canceling $50,000 in student debt per borrower, arguing the move could “transform an entire generation.””It would help nearly everyone…

hendrickn/Shutterstock / Microsoft Ever so quietly, Microsoft dropped a new operating system out in the wild. No, not Windows 11. Microsoft created its own Linux…

Because Linux is a multi-user operating system, it has a mechanism that sets and manages file permissions to ensure that only authorized processes and users…

Some anti-vaccination groups on Facebook are changing their names to euphemisms like “Dance Party” or “Dinner Party,” and using code words to fit those themes….

I find Reddit to be a much more interesting social media platform than Twitter. Reddit’s users are generally supportive, well-informed, and nice to each other….

On Windows, every new account you create is a user account by default. As a result, it gets limited privileges and is restrictive. But, you…