technology

As part of the CARES Act passed by Congress to help the US economy, Economic Impact Payments were getting sent to eligible individuals. If you received a refund from the…

Zoom. Two months ago, most people didn’t even know what it was. Today, it’s one of the things that’s getting us through staying at home day after day. Workplaces are…

iPhone owners are noticing a problem they didn’t have before COVID-19: they can’t use the Face ID option on their iPhone to turn their phones on. The mask obscures a…

As we find ourselves on our computers more and more when we’re traveling, I’ve tried to keep up on protecting our data. Connecting to WiFi networks is one of our…

Happy Saturday friends, and hooray, it’s finally the weekend! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV this week. From what we’ve written to what others wrote that we…

If there’s one thing that’s universally accepted as “security theater,” it’s the requirement to sign a receipt when using a credit card. What was this supposed to do? I imagine…

Airbnb allows cameras in rented properties, as long as they’re fully disclosed and visible, and, for obvious reasons, aren’t in bathrooms or bedroom. Unfortunately, not all homeowners follow that particular…

One of the scariest “first world problems” of technology that can happen while you’re traveling is when your phone is about to lose power. I mean, think of all the…

And in the flash of an eye, November is finished and welcome to December! Here are our most popular posts for November 2019. Some of them were actually written before…

I was just digging around in the darker corners of my hard drive and found copies of my packing lists from 2003 and 2005. I use a version of this…