Posted on February 19, 2025
Fake news is everywhere—and it’s dangerous. Here’s how to know it when you see it
In the good old days, fake news was funny. “I married Bigfoot.” “Computer virus spreads to humans!” We saw stuff like that at the supermarket checkout counter and we laughed. Now, fake news is everywhere—and it’s no joke. …
Posted on November 20, 2024
CREDO Mobile – Holiday Gift Guide
The holidays are a tough time for the environment. Household waste increases 25% between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day(1). A big part of this increased waste is gifts, many that are unwanted, that end up in landfills. If …
Posted on October 10, 2024
Are you charging your phone wrong?
Phones are awesome. We love our phones. But let’s be honest. There are times when our phones annoy us, especially as they get older. They respond sluggishly to taps and prompts. They load apps slowly. Sometimes the screen …
Posted on May 2, 2024
What to do if your personal information is exposed in data breach
Your personal information is valuable. And bad actors are working harder than ever to get their hands on it. Data breaches were up 20% in 2023 from 2022. There were 3,205 data breaches in 2023 and 353 million …
Posted on April 18, 2024
Earth Day: Save money, Save the planet— Purchase refurbished electronics
April 22 is Earth Day. Encouragingly, this is now the largest civic event in the world, with billions of people participating in Earth Day activities and calling for solutions to our planet’s problems. One of those problems is …
Posted on November 30, 2023
How to take .5 selfies, the wide-angle photos getting all the focus from Gen Z
If you have young people around for the holidays, chances are you’ll be taking some .5 selfies. Some what? you might wonder. Well, .5 selfies are the photo trend at the forefront of social media today, obsessively popular …
Posted on November 16, 2023
Cool stuff you didn’t know your phone can do
Last week we shared some tips on how to get more out of your smartphone. Here are some additional tips and features to get the most out of your phone. Android features — prefaced by the proviso that …
Posted on November 9, 2023
Cool phone features not everyone knows about
With every update to the Android and iOS operating systems, there come waves of new features, shortcuts, apps and settings. Many of them you know about and use to make your phone work better for you. But many …
Posted on November 2, 2023
How to prevent apps from accessing your personal data
Smartphone apps can collect a whole lot of data about you: Your name and email address, location history, personal contacts, photos and videos, purchases, health and fitness data, financial information, browsing and search history, your IP address and …
Posted on October 12, 2023
New life for old devices: 5 ways you can repurpose your outdated gadgets
We all do it. When we get a new device, we toss the old one in a drawer, there to languish till doomsday. Which, alarmingly, seems to grow closer all the time. And which is why we recently …
