Category: Technicity

Microsoft’s complex relationship with Linux has evolved dramatically over the years, but a turning point came in 2014 when CEO Satya Nadella openly declared, “Microsoft loves Linux” during a media event—perhaps the first truly candid admission of its shifting stance. For those unfamiliar, Linux is a powerful, flexible, and highly efficient operating system that outperforms…

I have had the privilege of managing social media foI have had the unique privilege of managing social media for a prominent Christian church based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, over the past four years. This opportunity not only allowed me to serve in a meaningful capacity but also granted me firsthand insight into how social…

On February 6th, 2021 many users’ traffic to GOOGLE.LK and a few other websites under the LK Domain Registry redirected to a propaganda page in what seemed to be the work of hacktivists. The page drew attention to several contemporary national issues. Although the media reported the websites themselves have been hacked, the hackers had…

Signal and Telegram have become the world’s hottest apps over the last week, because of the growing anxiety over privacy concerns emerging from Facebook’s updates to WhatsApp’s privacy policy. This move by the Social Media Giant caused a mass exodus as millions of alarmed WhatsApp users switched to Signal and Telegram. [Users in Europe are…

Someone said he had to work hard to find porn when he was a kid, but kids today have to work hard to stop porn from finding them. Today I want to share how Pornographers push pornography and nudity through Social Media by overrunning Facebook and Instagram with porn and other sexually charged images or…

I admit that my user experience with macOS and the MacBook Air is far superior compared to Windows as well as Toshiba, HP, and Dell. However, if there’s one software application that I cannot replace, that would be the Microsoft Office Suite. The UI and UX in Apple’s Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are light years…

In “Microsoft Office 365 Lifetime Subscription?” I issued a strong warning against falling for the so-called lifetime subscriptions being sold for Microsoft Office 365—a product that, by design, is subscription-based and never sold as a one-time lifetime purchase. Today, I feel compelled to bring your attention to yet another online scam that has been gaining…