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How to Track Internet Activity for Free Using Windows Firewall Log

Did you know you can set up Windows Firewall to log connections that go through it? Here is how to track Internet activity using Windows Firewall log.

By Simon Batt – Sep 18, 2016

How to Turn On Stealth Mode in the Firewall on Your Mac

How to Turn on Stealth Mode in the Firewall on Your Mac

Concerned about security on your Mac? Luckily, you can use Stealth Mode to make it more difficult for hackers and malware to find you. Here’s how.

By Mahesh Makvana – Jan 25, 2016

5 Windows Power User Tools That Every User Should Know About

Some of the power tools are hidden in Windows and most people don’t know about them. Here are some of the Windows power tools that you can use.

By Vamsi Krishna – Sep 30, 2014

How to Create Advanced Firewall Rules Using Windows Firewall

Need to block certain applications from accessing the Internet? Learn how to create advanced firewall rules in Windows to protect yourselves.

By Vamsi Krishna – Aug 22, 2014

How Will Windows XP’s End of Support Affect You (And What You Can Do About It)

Windows XP has been a great OS, but it won’t be supported any more this coming April. Here is what you can do after Windows XP end of support by Microsoft.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 17, 2014

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ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

Jun 9, 2026

In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it was in development — it demanded twice the memory of a typical home PC, sold roughly 30,000 copies, and was dead within a year, leaving behind the font Comic Sans and the animated assistant that became Clippy.

Jun 9, 2026

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The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.

Jun 9, 2026

French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground

Jun 9, 2026

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When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter nobody had quite prepared for — a tally of pickups — and within a day Tim Cook was telling CNN the number of times he picked up his own phone was simply too many

Jun 9, 2026

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When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked up its signal in January 2018 while hunting for a classified spy satellite, and the spacecraft turned out to be still spinning, still powered, and still trying to phone home after 13 years of silence.

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