Gmail Safety: Blocking, Spam Filtering & Children’s Accounts

Gmail Safety: Blocking, Spam Filtering & Children’s Accounts

by Larry Magid Gmail’s free email service is extremely popular, but many people don’t take advantage of some of its more powerful features like the ability to schedule emails into the future, snooze emails you don’t want to deal with right now, filter out emails from...
How to Protect Your Online Security

How to Protect Your Online Security

by Larry Magid When it comes to online security, you don’t have to be paranoid to worry about people who want to harm you.  Sadly, there are such people, and although they have nothing against you personally, they do want your money, and because the internet is...
Ask Trish: Sharenting

Ask Trish: Sharenting

By Trisha Prabhu “My mom keeps posting pics of me online that are embarrassing. How do I get her to stop?” Hi there, and welcome back to another week of Ask Trish! I hope you’re all well and having a wonderful February.  Thank you so much to this week’s question-er...
Guide to Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

Guide to Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

Meta and Ray-Ban have released the second generation of smart glasses. The first was called “Ray-Ban Stories.” The new version, introduced in late 2023, is Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. Both versions have a camera that can take both still and video pictures. The new...
Cleaning Up Your Internet Browser

Cleaning Up Your Internet Browser

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News My computer’s internet browser is, by far, the program that I use the most. That’s not the case with my mobile device, because so many of the services I use have their own apps. But, when I’m sitting at my PC...