personal computing

Sending confidential messages has now just gotten better. In the new version of Gmail, you can be able to send self-destructing emails. One of the new tools that new Gmail introduced was confidential mode, which lets you set an expiration date or revoke access for... Read More

Both Notepad and Notepad++ are Windows-based text editors that are commonly used for writing and editing plain text files. As much as they are Windows-based, only Notepad comes pre-installed in Windows operating systems. If you need to use the advanced++ version you have to download... Read More

You have been saving up diligently for your next gaming rig and now the time has come to go shopping. Little do you discover you were oblivious to what route to take between a gaming laptop and a gaming desktop. You start weighing them against... Read More

Microsoft's Windows comes will many advanced features that by default are disabled. One such feature is Hyper-V which has to do with activating virtualization. Windows virtualization technology should not be confused with Windows Sandbox. They both share some attributes but have key differences that we... Read More

While coding and programming seem to be synonymous at the front, they are altogether different from each other. While coding means writing codes from one language to another, programming means programming a machine with a given set of instructions to run. In this article, let's break... Read More

You may have been wondering why your 500GB hard drive is showing as 460GB on Windows. Where does the remaining 40GB disappear to? Imagine buying a 2TB hard drive and finding out you can only use 1.8TB! Why are you losing an entire 200GB without... Read More

Some devices won't easily allow you to install a VPN app or client. Roku TV, Apple TV devices and some game consoles for instance don't support VPN Apps. This leaves you exposed to snooping from preying eyes, hackers, governments or your Internet Service Provider. With... Read More

Decoding mobile processor names can be quite confusing going by just the combination of numbers and letters assigned to it. This applies to both AMD and Intel, I mean what's the difference between a Ryzen 5900HX and a Ryzen 6900X? In a bid to make... Read More

Ethernet over Powerlines (EoP), also called Powerline Networking and Power Over Ethernet (PoE) are two quite confusing technologies. Even though they sound quite similar, each does the opposite of what the other does. In this post, we will be clarifying how each of them works... Read More