I have been writing this column for several years now and it is hard for me to believe that I have never written about computers and...

World Password Day 2022 World Password Day is on May 5th this year and is observed by updating your passwords and verifying your security...

Tech Sense Q&A Every now and then I get questions that I put aside and answer when I have room left in my column. I have accumulated a...

Pi Day - March 14th Monday, March 14th is also known as Pi Day. Pi is of course the number that represents the ratio of a circle’s...

A Safer New Year I believe that the New Year is a great time to improve your security posture, so with that in mind I have a few...

Another Holiday season and we are feeling the economic impacts of nearly two years of COVID. There are shortages of many popular...

Potpourri 2021 This month I thought I might touch on several short topics before we go into the holiday season. Windows 11 Windows 11 was...

Wireless This month our topic is wireless technologies. We will try to briefly cover three wireless technologies that we find in our...

Back to School 2021 School starts again shortly, are you ready for the new reality? We are not certain where our students are going to...

Space 2021 A number of significant achievements have occurred in space technologies in the past couple of months and I thought I would...

Chip Shortages I thought for this month’s column it might be interesting to explore the chip shortage which is having an impact on...

Ransomware I am writing this in May of 2021. As I drive down US 1 here in Beltsville the gasoline prices have all jumped from about $2.40...

Another World Password Day I have been writing this column for just over five years now and I have written five columns (one was in two...

The USB Port As I see it part of the purpose of this column is to give the readers insight into technology. This month I thought I would...

Pi Day - March 14th March 14th is Pi Day. Pi is the number that represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. In...

How Search Engines Work Happy New Year! Welcome to 2021, hopefully a better year. Last week I was asked how search engines like Google or...

Free Gifts for the Privacy Minded The holiday season is upon us as we work, play, shop, and go to school online. For many of us hours and...

Holiday Shopping Ideas 2020 It's November again and time to prepare for holiday shopping. It seems that many companies are running “Black...

Phone Phishing From last month, phishing is a means to try and fraudulently collect money or valuable information from a person using...

Phishing Attacks Continuing our series on security and privacy protection this month, we look at phishing. Phishing is a form of social...

Back to School Back to school in 2020 is expected to be a lot different from in the past. Currently, Prince George’s County is planning...

Encryption Tools Last month’s column discussed encryption. This month, the column looks at tools used to encrypt data for everyday use....

Encryption One way of protecting your data involves a technology known as encryption. When you were a child, you may have owned a toy...

Privacy Protection Strategies This month I am finally returning to my series on privacy and protection. In February we discussed who...

Meetings from Home It's been a month now, and here we all are still stuck at home. Last month I deviated from my current series and...

Working from Home Due to the fact that everyone I know is working from home because of the threat posed by the COVID-19 virus, I thought...

Protecting Your Information This is the third in my series on privacy and security. Last month, I reviewed one method of creating secure...

Time to Change Your Passwords This month starts my sixth year writing this column. Each year I have written at least one column on...

Protecting Your Information This is the third in my series on privacy and security. Last month, I reviewed one method of creating secure...

Time to Change Your Passwords This month starts my sixth year writing this column. Each year I have written at least one column on...

Anybody who has read this column over the years probably recognizes that I am an advocate for both security and privacy. As much as...

It's November again and time to prepare for holiday shopping. This year we will start with some new technology gifts that people might be...

In my last column of 2018, I discussed the game industry covering game platforms and distribution of games for the personal computing...

This month I thought I would start a discussion of home automation and monitoring. Home automation is where devices in our homes do...

Back to School 2019 It's that time again when school is starting, and once again we are scrambling to find the tools our students need...

Finding eBooks Last month we discussed eBook files and eReaders. This month we will continue looking at eBooks and discuss finding them....

Summer is here, and many of us will spend time on the beach or in the mountains relaxing and catching up on our reading. This month I...

May and June are popular months for graduations, and laptop computers make a popular gift for the graduating student. This month we will...

World Password Day World Password Day is a day set aside on the first Thursday of May for everyone to change their passwords, add...

This month I will be tackling some questions I get asked frequently or FAQ's. Should I use a Surge Protector for my Computer? The answer...

March 14th is known in the United States as Pi Day, a celebration of the number Pi. We celebrate on March 14th because the first digits...

This month I have decided to present short insights into the loss of personally identifiable data or identity theft. I will start by...

I ended my last column talking about games as Christmas gifts, and that has inspired me to write more about the state of electronic games...

It's that time of year again where we help the non-technical spouse, sibling, or friend identify gifts for the techno-geeks in their...

This morning I woke up to read that Paul Allen has died. Paul Allen along with his better known partner Bill Gates created the company...

We all have telephones in our homes or pockets but this technology is abused by scammers to the point that many of us no longer want to...

It's that time of year again, and this month we have our annual back-to-school column. This year, let's start by taking a look at the...

Multi-factor Authentication I know you have seen in movies where the action character needs to break into a high-security building, and...

More Linux So last month we discussed the Linux operating system. This month, I want to explore Linux more and cover how to explore Linux...

Linux According to Wired magazine, 67% of the computers running the Internet are powered by Linux. So what is Linux, and is it only for...