How to See If Your VPN Is Leaking Your Personal Information

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How to Add a Calculator to Microsoft Word How to Enable One-Handed Mode in Android’s Google Keyboard How to Allow a Standard Windows 10 User to Change the Time and Date How to See If Your VPN Is Leaking Your Personal Information What to Do If You Can’t Receive Text Messages From iPhone Users How to Send Your Amazon Echo Shopping List to Your Email How to Organize Your Email with Smart Mailboxes in Apple Mail How to Find Out If Your Device Is Running 32-Bit or 64-Bit Android How to Manually Add a Photo to a Contact on an iPhone or iPad How to Put an iPad Into “Kiosk” Mode, Restricting It to a Single App How to Run Any Program as a Background Service in Windows Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Turtling Turtling is the term for a video game strategy where a player mainly focuses on defense and/or “strengthening” their position rather than engaging in attacks or other offensive strategies. 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[The Atlantic] YouTube Said to Plan 'Unplugged' Online TV Service for 2017 YouTube is working on a paid subscription service called Unplugged that would offer customers a bundle of cable TV channels streamed over the Internet. [Bloomberg] How to Add a Calculator to Microsoft Word To do basic arithmetic in Word, you normally have to open the Windows calculator to get your answers, then manually insert them into Word. However, there is a third-party add-in for Word that provides a popup calculator that will calculate numbers in your document, and automatically insert the answer. Read This Article → How to Enable One-Handed Mode in Android’s Google Keyboard We've all been in a situation where one hand or the other simple isn't available for responding to a text message, and with the ever-increasing size of Android phones, that's starting to become more of an issue. The good news is that Google Keyboard now has a much-needed feature: One-Handed Mode. Read This Article → How to Allow a Standard Windows 10 User to Change the Time and Date By default, only users with administrator rights in Windows 10 can change access time and date settings. If you’re using Windows 10 Professional or Enterprise edition, however, you can use Group Policy to allow standard users to change the time and date. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to See If Your VPN Is Leaking Your Personal Information Many people use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to mask their identity, encrypt their communications, or browse the web from a different location. All those goals can fall apart if your real information is leaking through a security hole, which is more common than you’d think. Let’s look at how to identify and patch those leaks. Read This Article → What to Do If You Can’t Receive Text Messages From iPhone Users If you’ve been having trouble receiving text messages from iPhone users, Apple’s iMessage is probably at fault–especially if you recently switched from iPhone to Android, or something else. Read This Article → How to Send Your Amazon Echo Shopping List to Your Email If you’ve been using the Amazon Echo to add things to your grocery list, here’s how to send that list to your email when you’re finally ready to go shopping. Read This Article → How to Organize Your Email with Smart Mailboxes in Apple Mail One of the more intriguing features of Apple Mail is smart mailboxes, which collate your mail according to a predetermined set of rules. You mail doesn’t actually get moved to these smart mailboxes, it just appears as though it is. Read This Article → How to Find Out If Your Device Is Running 32-Bit or 64-Bit Android There comes a time in every Android user's life when an important question has to be answered: is my device running a 32- or 64-bit operating system? It can be a rough, troubling time if you're not sure how to answer that question. But we're here for you, and we'll help walk you through what to do should such a scenario arise. Just breathe, it's going to be fine. Read This Article → How to Manually Add a Photo to a Contact on an iPhone or iPad That boring, grey circle may give you a slight indication of who you’re calling or texting, but wouldn’t it be nice if all your iPhone contacts had photos to go with them? Here’s how to manually add a picture to a contact. Read This Article → How to Put an iPad Into “Kiosk” Mode, Restricting It to a Single App An iPad makes a great “kiosk” device–a tablet restricted to one specific app for your home or small business. You can create a makeshift kiosk using the Guided Access feature, or enable Single App Mode for a true kiosk environment. Read This Article → How to Run Any Program as a Background Service in Windows If you’re like most Windows users, you have lots of great little utilities that run when you start Windows. While this works great for most apps, there are some that would be nice to start even before a user logs in to the PC. To do this, you’ll need to run the app as a Windows service. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 2016 Ultimate IT Security Kit (over $25 value!) FREE for a limited time Kit includes "Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices" plus 3 other resources to help you understand IT security. Click here to download