You can cut down on the number of notifications you’re getting—not just from your phone but also from your computer and other gadgets. Do you really want to give apps and websites the permission to interrupt you whenever they feel like it?
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With the newly upgraded Do Not Disturb features in Android and iOS, plus the notification management tools you get in the settings of these mobile OSes, it’s easier than ever to put a lid on apps you don’t want to hear from constantly. You can still let people reach you in an emergency without having Snapchat pinging every two minutes.

Check the notification settings inside the apps you use as well. In Gmail for Android and iOS, for instance, you can have alerts only for emails sent to your primary folder; in Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, you can mute conversation threads for a certain number of hours until you’re ready to read them; and so on and so on.

The most straightforward way I can think of to upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 is to use the Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant. You can find it HERE:

Click to download the update assistant. This will lead you to download the Windows 10 upgrade program, without actually doing the upgrade immediately, so you have time to ponder the whole thing. It will take hours to complete, so let it run. At some point you will be asked what type of install, which likely means you will select to KEEP all your programs and files.

Then you will be asked to actually update to Win 10. Hopefully it will work for you. I did have someone who had a problem with the update, so please backup what’s important to you, just in case. It will also take quite a while to complete the upgrade, after which, Win 10 will guide you through some questions. When it completes, you should have a nice clean version of Windows 10, version 1903.

When it’s all done you may or may not have an activated copy of Windows 10. In any case, it will work just fine. If it comes up with a watermark at the bottom right corner, your Windows will still work. (Microsoft suggests you purchase a licence). I had a valid copy but when I swapped out my motherboard it decided it was no longer activated and the automated phone support wouldn’t give me an activation code. That was 2 years ago and it’s still running. 

​You’ve probably thought about what will happen to your finances, your possessions and maybe even your real estate when you die. But what about your Facebook account? Or your hard-drive backups?

For the past two decades, most of us in the modern world have gradually shifted our central living space online. That’s 20-ish years of documenting our real-life experiences while also creating entirely new versions of ourselves in countless places online.

These digital lives are basically immortal, so you may as well figure out while you’re still alive what will happen to them after you’re gone.

There are two main things to consider: What will happen to your accounts and what will happen to the data contained therein. For example, you can give someone authority to delete your Google account and to download all your photos stored there after you die.
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Over the years I’ve written about Malwarebytes many times. It’s the only anti-malware program I pay for. I like the free versions of many programs, but Malwarebytes I am willing to pay for from experience. The experience is from the many times Malwarebytes has fixed a problem computer, mine, and many other peoples.
 
They’ve been sending newsletters to me, which I do not often read. Occasionally there will be one that catches my eye, but usually I pass. One of the authors on the site has a page for the articles she’s written, and I am including it HERE.
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/author/wzamora/
 
She has some interesting articles on STALKERWARE. You probably know, at least vaguely, that your phone is a GPS device, it maps in a few ways, like getting you to an address you are not familiar with. However, it’s a 2 way street, and your phone can lead others to you. Carol and I actually set that up in our phones on purpose, and it’s a common thing for parents to use for their children. The problem arises when you don’t want it or when it’s being done by a stranger.
 
Don’t freak, like most scenarios, that is not common, just something you should know about. Read the article if it interests you.