Teach yourself to code (teach yourself how to program) is a website created by Kate Ray , a programmer who did just that, taught herself to program. He did it by learning Rails with a book that a friend lent him and created this website to help others who want to learn programming and do not know where to start .…
If you need to stay away from social networks for a while and you are looking to temporarily turn off an Instagram account, the good news is that there is a very simple way to do it. The first thing you should consider is that when you deactivate it, nobody will be able to access your content or your…
The people of LinuxQuestions have published the results of their annual survey on the software and the most popular distributions among Linux users . The survey that evaluated programs in various categories was conducted by some 10,000 people who are part of the forum community that has 550,000 members. Although the results have well-known names that will not surprise anyone…
You have your computer connected to the Internet, everything seems to be correct but you can not navigate. It has happened to all of us at some time, and there can be so many causes that often it is difficult to find the solution. Let’s review some of the checks we can make when we believe that the Internet…
Most users trust, wait or simply understand that the information they handle in the applications they use day after day on their phone or computer is protected. He does not know what encryption is and how it works, but he assumes that the design of services prevents his data from being exposed. That would be desirable, but recurrently…
The usual patches that Microsoft releases on Thursdays are already available, this includes the solutions for Meltdown and Specter in Windows 7 and 8.1 , the same ones that will reach Windows 10 last week and that ended up causing starting problems in the AMD processors. The cumulative update of the last month in addition to including 56 corrections and…
The world of computer security has started this new year with two serious and massive vulnerabilities of modern processors on the table: Meltdown and Specter. The first is the one we met yesterday, that design error of the Intel CPUs that implies having an open door to data from the system memory and suffering a possible slowdown of the…
If you are one of those people who are always looking to discover new music and you are also fascinated by technology, you are probably going to have a good time playing with this more than interesting tool called Synthetic. What it does is let you play with a series of parameters that apply to the music, it makes…
The so-called ‘Great Firewall of China’ prevents the citizens of the country from connecting to a large number of pages and applications, forcing them to use local alternatives or live next to a VPN network. In fact, for the third year in a row, Freedom House has considered it the country that most violates the freedom of the Internet. That…
TunnelBear people , mostly known for their extremely easy-to-use VPN service and which also has a free model, have launched a new product: their own multi-platform password manager called RememBear . Remembear is free and available for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. It is extremely easy to use, has end-to-end encryption, and will fill in the password fields automatically for you once…