Technology Made Easy
Google has announced today that they are going to be shutting down the Pigeon transit app service. Pigeon by Googles Area 120 group gives the best route; avoiding delays, crowds, and other common disruptions. Today’s post will be going over the shutdown details.
Read more
On April 24th, we posted that Nintendo had suffered a data breach, affecting 160k users. Today Nintendo has updated that information an more users have been found to have had their data breached. Today’s post will go over the updated details from Nintendo.
Read more
*Updated April 23rd 2020* Zoom is one of the most popular ways to stay in touch. Unfortunately, the default settings in Zoom could expose you to problems. Today’s post include the changes you need to make in Zoom.
Read more
For those who visit New York, going to a Broadway show is usually on the to-do list. For those who are fans of Broadway, even if you aren’t in NY, there is a new service coming Mid-May,
Read more
For those who like to stay in touch via The Gram, you now have a new tool at your disposal. Instagram has added the ability to direct message users from the website. Today’s post is a quick FYI to being able to DM
Read more
With all of that is going on in the world, video conferencing has become the way to keep in touch. Zoom is quickly becoming to de-facto video conference choice. Unfortunately, due to some “bad people”, Zoom is changing some default security settings
Read more
So Android users today said Goodbye to the Dark Sky – Hyperlocal weather app. The Dark Sky app has become very popular with users over the past 8 years, giving users alerts for impending precipitation with an intuitive interface, which is usually eerily accurate.
Read more
Good Morning – According to a tweet by Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status), Microsoft Teams desktop and web client may be having some issues.
Read more
In the past couple of day’s Twitter announced it was considering removing inactive accounts. In Twitters thinking, if you aren’t using the account, someone else should have the opportunity. The original announcement from Twitter, was simply that they were going to enforce the existing policy about inactive accounts. However, after
Read more
Welcome to 2019, and welcome to another data breach. From researcher Troy Hunt, a large set of files were found on a cloud account. The file set included over 87 GB (that would be gigabyte) of data. In the data there was millions of email accounts and passwords. Today’s post
Read more
So as of 6:40p (ET), if you visit the Pandora music site, you are seeing the error that “Something has gone wrong…”. Updated at 7:40p (ET) – Site now appears to be back up.
Read more
For most people, when you say anything about passwords, you basically get “Oh That Thing That Annoys Me”. Yes it does seem that everything we do these days has a password and there are too many passwords to try to remember.
Read more
Marriott today reported that they have become aware of a breach at their Starwoods brand that goes back to 2014. the Breach could affect up to 500 million customers who used the Starwoods reservations system. Marriott reports that they “recently discovered that an unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information,
Read more
Do you use the free version of Flicker? If you answered yes, there are Changes Coming To Flickr For Free Users, and they will affect you if you have over 1000 pictures stored. If you use Flickr, you will want to read this, as you will lose pictures if you
Read more
Those with an Xbox are very familiar with Xbox Live Gold or for Playstation with the Playstation Network. It’s now time for those with an Nintendo Switch to get familiar with the Nintendo Switch Online. The Nintendo Switch Online Network is slated to launch in September of 2018, after being
Read more