Your IP address is something you usually don't need to think about—in fact you might never have heard of it before—but it's an important little piece

When you move in the real world, you usually fill out a change of address form with the post office, and boom!—your mail appears at your new home. If

Google Chrome’s address bar (or omnibox, as Google calls it), might seem simple, but you can actually do a lot more with it than just search for your

You undoubtedly know about your browser's incognito mode: a special browser state where the software doesn't keep track of your activities in quite as

One of the most annoying aspects of Spotify's free tier is the ads. Every half hour or so, the service injects a bunch of ads that interrupt your list

Twitter changed its name to "X" back in July of 2023. But while the site has taken the past 10 months to slowly adjust to its new name and logo, two t

Do you miss the days when a Google search just gave you a list of links, and not a slowly updating box of questionably reliable AI-generated slop? You

Bad actors are using malware disguised as credible software (such as 1Password, Bartender 5, and Pixelmator Pro) to infect Windows and macOS computers

The words "social network" imply that such tools will connect you with the people in your life. That's not how these services work anymore. At this po

YouTube, haven't you ever heard the expression, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it?" Why, of all things to change on your platform, did you go messing w

Families are about to find it a lot easier to use Google Password Manager. Originally announced in February of this year, password sharing has started

Your Kindle reading experience can go far beyond what's available on the Kindle store. If, like me, you've only been buying your reading material from

Google Maps is so popular that it's pretty much synonymous with navigation. And that's for good reason. But while the app is pretty good with its defa

YouTube has been steadily trying out ways to stop ad blockers from working on its site. From big pop-ups shaming your ad blocker use to actually block

It's not just you: Google search is getting worse. It's more than the annoying new AI box at the top of the results page, which takes a long time to l

So far, Meta's Threads website has been stuck playing catch up to both Threads' own app and X's more mature feature loadout. All that is about to chan

Following a recent uptick in what seems to be bots making sexually suggestive posts on X, Elon Musk’s social media website appears to be giving up on

Once known as Location History, Google Maps' Timeline feature is a fun way to view a chronicle of the places you've visited, and routes to took to get

The most exciting internet trend of the past few years is the return of the blog. People are posting again. It's great.I'm using "blog" a bit more loo

In another move away from the old days of Twitter, X has started hiding the posts you’ve liked from other users. The news follows a previous promise f

Most of us stream the vast majority of our music, but sometimes that's not an option. That's where downloading songs or music videos for offline liste

Adobe just can’t catch a break. After raising eyebrows earlier this month with new terms of service that had users worried the company would be poking

Google Chrome has had a rough go of things this year. Just back in May, the Google-built browser suffered from at least four zero-day exploits, all of

It pains me when friends or family tell me about their internet issues, and I discover they’re still using the generic router/modem box their internet

It's been roughly a year since Reddit's API changes killed off all the good clients, and the company hasn't backed down yet. The problem: Reddit's mob

There's no shortage of realty sites out there, and there's not a huge amount to differentiate them—in the end, they're all built to facilitate propert

The free version of YouTube works perfectly well (current ad blocker debacle notwithstanding), but if you use it a lot, a Premium subscription is actu

Amazon's early Prime Day deals are here, with deals on school supplies, TVs, Blink security cameras, and more leading up to Prime Day on July 16. Yet

YouTube quietly celebrated Independence Day this week by previewing a new feature that uses AI to help creators declare independence from copyright st

I understand why newsletters took off and RSS didn't. Most people are never going to download a dedicated app for reading news and take the time to se

In 2005, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian launched a simple link-sharing site. Since then, Reddit has grown from a small community mainly made up of c

I don't like reading newsletters in my email inbox, since that's also the place where I get all kinds of distracting messages and ads. If you're looki

Firefox finds itself in a tricky position at times, because it wants to be a privacy friendly browser, but most of its funding comes from Google, whos

If you're based in the U.S., you may have woken up to some startling news: The world apparently shut down last night, as organizations from airports,

You think you just fell out of the coconut tree? Buddy, do I have news for you.If you're like me, you found out about Joe Biden ending his presidentia

Since its humble beginnings on Gary Gygax's coffee table in the early 1970s, Dungeons and Dragons has grown into a universally known brand worth an es

If you're noticing a few seconds of black before your YouTube videos start, you aren't alone: YouTube viewers, particularly those using uBlock Origin,

I've used get-things-done (GTD) apps pretty much throughout my whole journalism career. These apps go a bit beyond your usual to-do list—if you've eve

The death of Twitter, the brand name and not the website, was apparently not quite as final as we all once thought. It might have seemed like the fina

The web is a truly international platform—did you know Wikipedia has nearly 3 million articles in German and nearly 2 million in Spanish?—and thanks t

Update 8/8/2024: YouTube has begun sending invitations to participate in testing the new Community Notes feature, as spotted by 9to5Google. Eligible u

One of the reasons Google Chrome is such a popular browser is that it's supported by a wealth of useful third-party extensions and plug-ins, adding ex

Just like apps on your phone, websites can request permissions inside your browser. Some of these permissions are pretty essential—like webcam access

When it comes to cloud gaming, Nvidia GeForce Now is one of the first names that comes to mind: It enables you to stream top-tier titles to a host of

You can’t scroll through X without coming across an interesting video or two. Although the official X app doesn’t let you download videos, there are s

Google makes phones and watches, but its main business is selling ads. As of late, that side of the company has been in the news for the wrong reasons

Twitter was an important part of my life; for a decade it was the main place I hung out online. I made friends there I still talk with daily. I met th

Sharing your wifi password is an annoying process that's probably better off automated—especially if you have people coming over frequently. You can e

Ever sent a direct message, or DM, on X (formerly Twitter) that you regret? Now you can edit DMs on X, as long as you're on iOS.The update comes after

There are many ways to try upcoming Firefox features, but most of them involve using a beta version of the browser. For most people, these builds aren

Google has gotten worse at showing us useful search results, and I know I’m not the only one who has noticed. For example, I searched for a Lifehacker

You'd have to spend a long time digging into Windows before you reached the end of all the features and functions it has to offer—and one of the lesse

When you think of Google Search, it's probably as a simple concept: You open Google, type a search, and scroll through the results—dodging ads and spa

Google Search has been struggling for some time to actually deliver results that people are looking for. In fact, sometimes, you put yourself at risk

I cannot stand when I go to end a subscription, and rather than a "cancel" button, they present me a phone number. I never had to call to subscribe. I

Google has gotten a bad reputation as of late for being a bit overzealous when it comes to fighting ad blockers. Most recently, it’s been spotted auto

Idealist nerds have a long history of giving terribly confusing names to potentially revolutionary technology. So it goes with Fediverse, a portmantea

Having spent the better part of a decade being infamous for its RAM usage, Chrome is now on a bit of an apology tour. Recently, the browser has added

If you're one of those folks who set up an account on Bluesky back in late 2022 but wandered away because no one seemed to be using it, I'm here to in

Signal, one of the best encrypted messenger apps currently available, also just become a really solid alternative to Zoom and Google Meet. Although Si

You don't have to be Extremely Online to have heard that things are not going great over on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. Since taking the co

As an increasing number of people are abandoning Elon Musk's X, Bluesky appears to be among the networks many of these social media refugees people ar

So you've finally decided to quit X. If the boosting of paid blue checks and monetized hate didn't do it, and the stupid name change didn't do it, may

The Great Twitter Exodus of 2022 is still happening. It's just a little...fractured. A lot of X power users migrated to Bluesky early on, which paved

A lot of the once bird app's flocks appear to be migrating from X (formerly Twitter) to Bluesky. A big wave of people have finally left Elon Musk's so

If you're tuned in to digital culture news at all, it's been impossible to miss the chatter about Bluesky over the past month. The fledgling social me

I may be more than mildly obsessed with Bluesky, the new-ish social media network that is taking the internet by storm, and serving as a safe haven fo

Bluesky, the social network where all the X-pats appear to have gone, makes it easy for developers to build projects using its API. For most people, t

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Brainrot is taking over. The term describes the supposed widespread dumbing down of young people, caused by a generation spending every waking moment

Whether you joined Bluesky this month, or you're a day-one user, it's possible you've got a lot of posts on the new-ish social network already. (I'm n

I scroll through my Bluesky and Mastodon feeds every day and I sometimes grow tired of reading other people's musings and opinions on everything. Some

Google keeps adding more and more clutter to its search product, from ads to AI. You can kind of work around this by disabling AI search results or ev