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Do you use Gmail, the Chrome browser, or other Google service? Then Google may be keeping a record of every search query you make. That’s right; if you have a Google account, Google may know everything you ever looked for on the web. That is, unless you turn off Google’s collecting of all your searches and clean out the web history they’ve kept. Here’s how. Turn off Google Web History Go to the web page https://history.google.com Sign in to your Google account if you aren’t already signed in. Click the gear icon in the upper right corner (example shown in figure on the right). Choose “Settings”’ The page that opens contains the section shown in the figure below. Click the button “Turn off” to stop Google collecting the data. If you change your mind, you can always turn Web History back on. Delete items in Google Web History Previously collected data will still be there. To remove it, click the link contained in the word “delete” in the sentence, “You can...

Sure, it’s handy that your smartphone can remember and fill in usernames and passwords for your various web accounts. But it also means anyone else with access to your handset can log in to your most sensitive accounts, too. Indeed, the more often you tap “yes” when your iPhone or Android phone asks “Would you like to save this password?”, the more saved passwords you have sitting in your pocket—and that could lead to big trouble if your precious smartphone ever lands in the wrong hands. A good rule of thumb is to select “Never for this site” or “Not now” when your phone offers to save passwords for your most important accounts, such as your online banking site. But what if you’ve already saved passwords for more sites than you can count? In that case, you might consider starting fresh by wiping all the web passwords from your iPhone or Android phone’s memory. You might want to think twice before saving passwords for sensitive online accounts on your iPhone. Fo...

Sooner or later it happens to all of us – a Windows program gets hung up and just sits there frozen. You can open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) and try to close the hung program or use the command line to kill it. But sometimes you might want to see if you can find out why the program got hung up in the first place or you may want to try to unfreeze it. In that case, Windows 7 has just the system tool you need. It’s called Resource Monitor and has many features. One of them is a way to troubleshoot programs that don’t respond. Here is how it works: Open Resource Monitor by entering “resmon” in the Start-Search bar. Alternatively, open Task Manager( keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Esc), and click on the "Performance" tab and then the button "Resource Monitor".  An example of the window that opens is shown in this figure. In the CPU section of the "Overview" tab, right-click the executable file of the hung application. The listing of the hung appl...

1. For clumsy fingered folks, if you accidentally close a tab on Google Chrome, press Control+Shift+T and it’ll come back from the dead. 2. If you’re in a particular country that can’t access important content on US websites like Hulu or Netflix, Firefox and Google Chrome offer a free extension called  Media Hint  that can have you watching   Orange is the New Black  and other American exclusives in no time. 3. Control+F or Command+F will allow you to find specific terms on a page. If only life had a version of this for when we lose our keys, phone, dignity, etc. 4. Want to surf the web in private with no recording of your web habits? For Firefox users, press control+shift+p, or for Chrome it’s control+shift+N, and you’ll be browsing off the record. This isn’t just for porn watching purposes as one might think, but for several other benefits such as websites that track your cookies and use ‘em to their advantage (I’m looking at you, hotel & airline compan...