In college, my university started using a two-factor authentication system for logging in to our student portals my last semester. I was among the many students who were annoyed. Not only had I never used two-factor authentication before, but I also was often logging...

I ordered a new laptop charger a few months ago. My personal computer is older and was a high school graduation gift from my grandparents, so I was not exactly thrilled at the idea of spending upwards of $80 on a new one. I figured that buying a cheap replacement...

I used to always use one of a few password options for every last thing I did. Whether it was my login for my online college classes, my email address, my Facebook account, or my Instagram page, I knew that my password would be one of two things. If neither of those...

When I was trying to switch my phone number to my own data plan, I spent literal hours on the phone with various customer service reps over a few days in order to get the issue resolved. Between being shuffled between representatives who promised the next person I...

You would not drive your car without insurance, so why are you running your website without having it optimized for search engine result pages? While the result is maybe not as disastrous as a car accident without insurance, if your website is not using SEO, you are...

My grandparents still speak fondly of days when we did not carry tiny computers in our pockets and had to go to an encyclopedia for answers when we had questions or Yellow Pages when we were looking for a specific service. Cellphones, and particularly smartphones that...

I obsessively check my email multiple times a day. I am one of those people who cannot stand to have notification alerts lingering on my phone! Most of the emails I receive in my personal inbox are for companies I once signed up to receive messages from, but I rarely...

If you own or run a business or are otherwise invested in where a company ranks on Google's search engine result page, you may notice that it can feel impossible to move to that coveted first spot on the first page. When you consider that few people look past the...

Throughout the last decade, more and more things have moved online. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, even more things moved online, from school to shopping to even some doctor's appointments. Though there are still lots of things you do in person, a lot of the...

Back when I was in college, I had a string of bad luck with cellphones. I accidentally shut mine in the car door and effectively destroyed it as I was on my way to work early one morning, and my parents had been clear: I was to buy my next phone on my own dime. I...