Living life as a digital nomad is the dream for many; being able to travel at your will, work anywhere you want, whenever you want, with nothing to hold you back. However, there’s a great deal more to this seemingly glorious lifestyle than first meets the eye. Being a digital nomad requires a lot of […]
One of the hardest parts of being a freelancer is finding new clients. And though many professionals may be currently experiencing scope creep and client overload, the task of securing new projects has to be one of the biggest challenges in the world of freelancing – probably because by nature, there are more people seeking […]
Finding free WiFi when you’re on the go can be a big nuisance. You blow a whole afternoon wandering from bakery to bakery munching 2€ donuts while you try to put that one candid picture of yourself in front of the Coliseum on Facebook. Or you don’t truly need internet until you’re stuck at […]
They’re out there. “They” are the folks who want to scan you. And the internet is a perfect conduit for scam artists to flourish. They can operate virtually anonymously; can target a large group of people with no real concern about geographic limitations; and finally: online scams keep happening because they work. It’s much easier […]
Okay, how many of us have used the WiFi at the airport? Let’s face it, sitting at an airport waiting for a plane, sometimes a delayed plane is the perfect time to catch up on so many things. An hour or two at the airport lets you finish paying bills, clean up your emails, work […]
Okay, time for a quick quiz. Don’t worry, it’s only one question. No grades will be given, and no quizzes will be collected. It’s COMPLETELY anonymous… really. Here’s the question: Who among you has never visited the Facebook profile of an ex-spouse or boy/girlfriend? Bonus question: If you found it, and looked at the profile—including […]
The Internet, Online Privacy, and Connected Toys If you look up the definition of what the internet is, you’ll find something like the below: The internet is an interconnected network of computers located all across the globe that provides information via standardized communication protocols So anyone on the internet is, by definition, […]
How can you live stream the Fifa World Cup this summer? Undoubtedly the biggest sporting event this year for Soccer Fans the world over, the 2018 Fifa Word Cup starts this June. Fans surely remember how the drama unfolded in some of the most watched games in the history of this sport. Fans […]
Hundreds of thousands of routers compromised—so says the FBI. Russian hackers standing by to collect sensitive user information or to shut down network traffic. The fix? Could be as simple as turning your router off, then back on. At least for the short-term. Security researchers at Talos— the cyber-intelligence unit of Cisco—first identified the malicious software […]
