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Your phone rings at eleven in the morning. It is a recorded voice offering you a personal loan you never asked for. By lunch there are three SMSes about flats in a city you don't live in. You are not imagining it, and you are not alone. Isn't DND supposed to stop this? DND is โฆ
We've all received emails that we just don't want. Offers, newsletters, deals, and now and then one that costs somebody their savings. Three words cover almost all of it: spam, phishing and ransomware. What is spam? Any unwanted message sent to you in bulk. Most of it is harmless. A shopping site you bought from โฆ
Everyone has misplaced a phone at some point. Sometimes it is under a cushion, and sometimes it is in the auto that has already driven away. The good news is that both Android and iPhone can put your phone on a map in about a minute. Will this work if the phone is on silent? โฆ
Happy Diwali, everyone! The house has been scrubbed, the old junk is out, and something shiny has been bought. Your phone and your laptop deserve exactly the same treatment. Why do my devices need a clean? Think of that one drawer in your desk. You keep dropping things into it and never take anything out. โฆ
You are looking at a price in dollars and wondering what that is in rupees. Most of us open an app or a website for this. You do not need to. Google answers plenty of these questions inside the search box itself, with no site to visit. Here are four I use almost every week. โฆ
Sale weekend, cart full, and the payment page asks how you would like to pay. Most of us tap the debit card without thinking twice. That is the one habit worth changing. Why is a debit card riskier? Your debit card is a direct pipe into your bank account. The moment you pay, the money โฆ
Your broadband has been dead since morning and the helpline keeps playing the same song. There is a faster way to be heard, and it has been sitting on your phone all along. What is Twitter, and why is everyone calling it X? Twitter is a place where people post short public messages. The company โฆ
You open a news site to read one article. A banner covers the top and a video starts playing on its own. Then a box slides up asking for your email. Why should I care about a few ads? Because they cost you more than patience. Every banner and auto-playing video quietly eats your data. โฆ
Every September, Apple puts on a keynote and we all quietly start doing sums. By the end of it, the perfectly good phone in your pocket suddenly feels old. Let us be honest about this one first. Do I need to buy the new iPhone? Not every year, no. An iPhone bought today will keep โฆ
The school wants a scanned copy of your child's birth certificate by tomorrow morning. Or the bank wants your PAN card, and there is no scanner anywhere in the house. Can't I just take a photo? You can, and it usually comes back looking wrong. The table under the document shows up in the frame. โฆ