Have you ever used Unroll.me, the web service that helps you unsubscribe from newsletters in bulk? If so, your emails have been scanned by that company and sold to third parties including Uber. There’s a chance they’re scanning your emails right now. RELATED: Secure Your Online Accounts By Removing Third-Party App Access If you want to switch tabs right now and remove third-party access to your email account, I don’t blame you....

Features Built-in support for cool graphics effects. (compiz-fusion) Display configuration utility that supports multiple monitors. Built-in desktop search. Better printing support, along with a PDF printer. Fast User Switching, similar to Windows. New Gnome and Xorg, with an easier theme tool. Lots of new stuff under the hood. Upgrade Use the Alt+F2 key combination to bring up the Run Application dialog, where you’ll want to enter the following command:...

How to Record App Activity As part of a push to give users a greater understanding of how apps use their information, Apple now allows you to record a week’s worth of app activity on your device. To enable the feature, first ensure you have the latest version of iOS installed, then head to Settings > Privacy and select Record App Activity. All you need to do now is toggle the feature on and wait....

A little known feature about this handy utility is the ability to have system information automatically saved to a SQL database or some other data file. With a few minutes of setup work you can easily configure BGInfo to record system information of all your network computers in a centralized storage location. You can then use this data to monitor or report on these systems however you see fit....

While the images contained in the document may be an important aspect in the information, sometimes it is just nice to quickly get to the text. First click on the Office button and go to Word Options. Next, click on Advanced and scroll down to Show document content. Now place a check next to the box “Show picture placeholders” then OK to close out of Word Options. Now when Word documents are opened there will be a placeholder where the image would be....

Make a Webified Spreadsheet To add dynamic data from a website to a spreadsheet, click the From Web button under the Get External Data section of the Data tab in Excel. Enter a website address that you want to get data from, and click Go. The page will load in the preview box, and you might have to scroll to find the data you want on the page. You’ll see a small arrow beside any web tables you can import into Excel....

Google is now providing integrated parental controls in Chrome, allowing parents to control their kids’ Chrome browser usage. This feature works best on a Chromebook, where it allows you to lock down an entire user account. Chrome calls its parental control solution “Supervised Users.” It works by allowing you to create separate Chrome user profiles for your kids and manage them from a single parent user account. Enable Supervised Users As of Chrome 31, the Supervised Users feature is still marked as beta and isn’t yet activated by default....

Sure, you can head over to google, but don’t you always wonder how those people know? It’s simple, install the dlocate utility, which is a faster alternative to dpkg for this type of query. You can use the command with the syntax ‘dlocate ’, which will give you this output: That’s a lot of output! You can see that there are a lot of filenames that partially match. Better to pass the full path to the filename....

To access this report again go to Control Panel and click on “Set up Parental Controls for any user”. Now click on the the user account you want to administer. Ok, now we want to choose View Activity reports under their profile, it may take a few moments for the report to generate. This report will cover several items, some of which may surprise you or not. Either way this is a great tool for determining which functionality to add or disable....

If you receive income via third-party payment processors such as PayPal, CashApp or Venmo, you may need to change how you report it. The government has added a provision for people earning more than $600 per year through third-party payment processors. Tap or click here to see how this change may affect you. Getting things done online is undoubtedly more convenient, especially with the way things are now. If you’ve been using the IRS’ online portal to manage your taxes, you may have to create another account through a third party to keep doing so....

Twitter Suspends 1,25,000 accounts in for Posting Terror Content Twitter said in its policy blog that “Like most people around the world, we are horrified by the atrocities perpetrated by extremist groups”. This announcement came when the United States and Other Governments pressurized Social Networking sites to take more combative steps to wipe our the terror activities intended for recruiting youth and planning terror actions. Twitter claimed that it already has rules to dismay these activities but it was driving up pressure by increasing its staff and using technology to get rid of content promoting terrorism....

But, that doesn’t mean the Linux desktop can’t play a major role on the office desktop. Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, is trying a new take on its popular Ubuntu desktop. One of these moves is the introduction of Ubuntu Pro beta. This is an expanded security take on the Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) releases. Starting with the Ubuntu 16.04 edition and including the later LTS versions, Canonical will offer expanded security coverage for critical, high, and medium Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) to all of Ubuntu’s open-source applications and toolchains for ten years....

Today we want to talk about Time Travel. No, we don’t mean actually going forward and backward temporarily. Rather, we want to talk about Time Travel as it pertains to the Apple Watch, what it is for, and what it does. If you own an Apple Watch, then you might be wondering what the heck is going on when you spin the digital crown while it is showing a watch face....

Ubuntu is designed to make it easy to install the latest versions of all of your software. The Update Manager will give you small updates over time, but can also let you automatically upgrade to the latest release of Ubuntu. However, if you’re currently running Ubuntu 10.04, you won’t see an option to automatically download Ubuntu 10.10. This is because Ubuntu 10.04 was the most recent Long Term Support (LTS) edition of Ubuntu....

Microsoft Word has a zillion features, and even after using it for a while, you’re always finding something new. The Navigation Pane is a great feature that lets you easily skip between sections, but even more useful is the ability to use it to reorganize your documents. Reorganizing Documents with the Navigation Pane Simply head to the View tab and then click the Navigation Pane option to enable the panel on the left-hand side....

Sometimes, choosing the most interesting questions to highlight is the best part of my job. This week, I received questions about coronavirus news on Twitter, making money on Spotify, finding free copies of Microsoft Office and more. Do you have a question you’d like to ask me? I’m here for you. Tap or click here to email me directly. Coronavirus Twitter facts Q: What Twitter accounts should I follow for news about the coronavirus?...

Windows comes with many preloaded programs that you’ll never use. Are you faxing stuff from your computer? Do you need remote desktop services (which exposes you to even more hacks)? Turn these settings off! Tap or click here to disable PC services without breaking anything. Tech companies embed default settings into our devices that supposedly make our lives easier, but they often cause more problems than they are worth. Here are 10 default iPhone settings you should switch off....

Twitter announced in a blog post that it is testing an “edit tweet” feature that would allow users to modify their Tweets after being published. SEE: Twitter is bringing podcasts onto its platform Edited Tweets will have an icon, timestamp and label that lets other users know that the Tweet has been edited. Tapping the label will also let users see the Tweet’s edit history, which will display the past versions of the Tweet....

Update to Fix This Zero-Day Exploit We first reported on this issue last week, and now Microsoft has solved the zero-day exploit with a new Windows update. The exploit used Office files containing malicious ActiveX controls that could grant a threat actor access by simply downloading a file. When the file is opened, it automatically launches a page on Internet Explorer that contains an ActiveX control. It then downloads malware onto the victim’s computer, which can be used for all sorts of things....

If your mouse was manufactured by one of the “premium” mouse manufacturers (Microsoft, Logitech, etc), it almost certain came with driver software to allow you to customize your mouse’s controls and take advantage of your mouse’s special features. Microsoft, for example, provides driver software called IntelliPoint (link below), while Logitech provides SetPoint. It’s possible that your mouse has some extra buttons but doesn’t come with its own driver software (the author is using a Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000, which amazingly is not supported by the Microsoft IntelliPoint software!...