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If you’ve been hanging around with Your Nerdy Best Friend for a while, you know how completely freaked out I was about the Equifax data breach almost two years ago. Equifax revealed the breach in the fall of 2017, but several months earlier, the company knew of vulnerabilities and hacker activity and more. More than 147 million U.S. residents were …
If you’ve been on social media this week, you’ve probably seen a full cycle of a viral app. In a matter of days, the world went from “OMG, FaceApp is COOL!” to “OMG, FaceApp is SCARY!” FaceApp is simple: Upload a headshot (yours or someone else’s), and add a filter to look younger or older, happier or prettier. You can …
I have a confession to make. Although I fuss at you guys to avoid public WiFi, I’m guilty of resorting to it every once in a while when my hotspot is spotty or if I’m just being lazy. It’s just so easy to connect to the free network and start surfing, right? But I feel guilty about it every time, …
“Hmmm… who do I know from Mount Airy, Maryland?” “Why would the IRS leave me a message?” “How can I be calling MYSELF?” Robocalling is out. of. control. Most people I know have become so accustomed to avoiding them that they’ve completely stopped answering their phone unless they 100% recognize the caller. We look at the caller ID with anger, …
This is a bah-humbug post! Here are some high-tech gadgets I wouldn’t buy this holiday season (and why). But this is what I DO want for Christmas … my favorite things. And this is where you can enter a giveaway to WIN one of my favorite things! Note: I may make a commission if you click on the Amazon links. …
It’s been years since I set up a website from scratch with a new URL. But when my husband needed a new email address for our new life in Nashville, I volunteered to put a little something together on the fly. Here’s what happened. D.J. needed a new address. He and I brainstormed a new URL: addressyourstudentloans.com, and I popped …
People who place ads on Facebook know that they can upload a database of names to put their ads directly in front of their contacts. I was going to try it to advertise my book to my followers, but because I have mostly business emails in my newsletter database, I figured that I wouldn’t be able to hook up the …
Another day, another security breach. But this time it’s with the ubiquitous Facebook, and the breach may end up involving other apps that let you login with Facebook. Here’s a summary of what you need to know. (And here’s another reason to be mad at Facebook this week.) What Happened? Back in December, Facebook noticed a spike in unusual Facebook …
Hi, friends. I’ve been saving up some gadgets for review. Here’s a tour of my little nerdy abode with reviews of my favorite (and not-so-favorite) gadgets. Products Reviewed Amazon Fire TV Cube Echo Show Roomba 980 Bose SoundLink Mini Bluetooth Speaker Logitech HD Pro Webcam Blue Snowball iCE Condenser Microphone Oculus Go Microsoft Surface Pro AirPods Apple Watch Google Home …
Oh you guys… I have to apologize. We get questions about apps all the time, and here’s what happens: I see the question. I ponder the question. I start looking up the answer to the question (click here to see how crazy that process is). Life happens… The presentation starts The cat jumps on my lap The plane starts boarding …
Sometimes I can pop an answer off the top of my head, but often I have to dig around to give you the right info. That’s what takes so long because I have to find the time to dig around. 🙂 Here’s a real-time account of what it’s like when I figure out an answer. Poor Kristina had to listen …
So Monday I’m packing nerdy socks for the next event, and I hear CLANK! A phone notification…. My phone clanks all the time, but this one was different. FLIGHT CANCELED! Wha? What was happening?? I was leaving in less than 24 hours, headed for Owensboro, KY, a fairly small town in a state not known for its air travel options. …
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