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These 10 massive outages prove just how easily the internet can go dark

21 January 2026 at 09:00

Internet outages are incredibly disruptive in our modern world. We don’t realize just how much is actually connected until everything goes down. While massive outages are uncommon, they do happenβ€”here are 10 of the worst.

3 free, open-source apps that saved me from photo library chaos

By: Rich Hein
20 January 2026 at 07:00

Managing a photo library is easy when it’s just yours. It got a lot harder for me when I also became responsible for keeping photos organized for my wife and mother-in-law. Different habits, different expectations, and everyone still wants their pictures to be easy to find and safely backed up. Over time, that turns into a messy sprawl of folders, duplicates, and β€œwhere did that photo go?” conversations.

The hidden router setting that is quietly slowing down your internet

16 January 2026 at 11:15

When you type a web address (aka a URL) in the address bar of your browser, that's not actually the address of the server your computer connects to. That's a "friendly" name that humans can remember, but it has to be translated into an IP address. An IP address is the exact address of a specific device on a network, which would be a web server, when visiting a website.

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