Consumerman: Guard Your E-mail

I love Goodreads. It’s always fun looking back across the year and remembering the best things I’ve read in the past 12 months. Goodreads’ Reading Challenge encourages me further, and in 2024, I smashed my goal. Here’s how.

I take security and privacy pretty seriously. After all, I am the Security Editor for MakeUseOf, so it stands to reason I'm keenly aware of malware and other threats.

Product recommendations are a great feature on modern shopping websites, letting you discover products you might not even know existed. However, this feature can sometimes become frustrating and show unwanted recommendations, but there are ways to fix this.

Clean Up is a Photos app tool in iOS 18 that enables you to remove undesired objects from photos. However, it sometimes exhibits an odd behavior and pixelates faces instead of deleting them. You can leverage this to hide people's identities in photos.

Wireless connectivity is great, but despite pushing for wireless tech as hard as I could in my workflows, I can't stay in the wireless charging camp. I've tried wireless charging for a year, and I'm sticking with my cables.

In September 2024, international money exchange MoneyGram was hit with a data breach affecting its more than 150 million users.