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Some of the Qi chargers, especially early ones, are painfully slow to charge. Make sure you don’t get one that has only 500mA output, look for at least 1000mA. If you get one of the newer design Qi inductive chargers, it will still be a little slower than physically plugging it in to recharge, but not too bad.

Since the revelations about the NSA looking over everyone’s shoulder when they are online, Tor usage has increased significantly. But how secure is Tor? Does it just result in a false sense of privacy, especially after seeing that the Department of Defense accounts for about 40% of Tor’s budget?

If I am familiar with Microsoft Excel on a Windows PC, would it be pretty much the same to use on a Mac, or are there significant differences?

Google said in a recent court filing that Gmail users do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy when they use email services. What do they mean by this? Are millions of people wrong when they think their email communications should be private?

It can share, but you might want to configure the router to give VoIP priority to help ensure higher call quality. 

There is a bit of a debate at my work about our desktop PC replacement cycle. Currently, we are on a 5 year cycle, which I frankly think is too long, but I don’t get to make the call. This is a SMB with about 40 PCs, so we aren’t talking a Fortune 500 company here. How long is too long to hang onto PCs?

I picked up a new Linksys router for my home network that offers the choice of WPA2 Personal or WPA2 Enterprise. I assume Enterprise is more secure, but what’s the difference? Is Enterprise "strong like bull," while Personal is more like, “Please, don’t do get on my network or I will cry?”

It’s pretty common for Facebook posts to cause people not to get hired, so frankly I think everyone looking for a job should make everything private on social media before sending out the first resume.

I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but I think the problem is probably your tablet. These things cost $80 and have who-knows-what for components. There are issues with app compatibility and hardware quality built in. Could you ever get a network connection? It could be a bad radio in the device. It could be a firmware/driver issue.

Facebook is once again about to change up things, whether you like it or not. Hopefully the changes they are about to announce for New Feed will be for the better. Of course, one man's better is another man's worse. What would you like to see changed?

Jitsi is decent open source software. http://jitsi.org