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GPS or Location Services can be problematic to some iOS users sometimes, especially to those who want to maintain their privacy and want to only share their location with selective individuals that they can trust on social media platforms, such as: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, WeChat, etc. Some applications can get your personal location data without your permission which is even more problematic and alarming to privacy fanatics. In addition to jeopardising personal priv...

Android is a widely popular operating system for mobile devices managed by giant tech company, Google. It was launched in 2003 to not only become an adversary for Apple’s iOS, but to even outperform Apple and establish a leading position in the market. Android is used by many giant manufacturers of tablets and smartphones, including: Samsung, Motorola, LG, Sony, Huawei and recently Nokia. One of the many reasons behind Android’s popularity is that is extremely afforda...

Ubuntu Linux is one of the most popularly used operating systems on desktops. Ubuntu means "humanity towards others" and the Ubuntu project is dedicated to provide users with an open source software so that they can install it and make modifications to it for free. Unity is the default desktop environment for Ubuntu and it is what we used to write our guide. What is great about Unity is that it contains an excellent search tool to to locate all types of applications and d...

About Chromebook The Chromebook is a laptop that was first developed by Acer Inc. and Samsung in 2011 and runs the Linux-based Chrome OS. The Chrome operating system has become very popular in a matter of just a few years. Since it is Linux-based, it is considered a very reliable operating system among its users. Even though it’s such a reliable system, it is still susceptible to online risks and can still be a victim of online restrictions. This is where setting up a re...

Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux operating system. It is considered the most popular operating systems among all Linux systems. This is due to many reasons but most of all it is the most user-friendly version ever made by Linux. You can get that from its name “Ubuntu” which in African means “human-ness” or “humanity to others". It was named after the South African Philosophy of “Ubuntu”. Now, we know that Linux users are always keen on protecting their online ...

About TP-Link TP-Link is an international company that was established in 1996 to provide all kinds of networking accessories and devices. TP-Link is ranked #1 globally for providing reliable broadband and WLAN devices which are distributed across more than 120 countries worldwide. What is OpenVPN? OpenVPN is an advanced open source client/application  developed by OpenVPN technologies as a highly secure tunneling protocol to help internet users establish an advanced an...

What controls the settings of your email and websites is something called a DNS, which is short for Domain Name System. When you use our DNS settings to visit our website "www.vpnanswers.com" , you get to our servers by using your name. If changes are made to these settings to another website's servers, you will reach that website instead of reaching us. By changing your default DNS settings, which are given to you by your internet service provider, you can improve your i...

We have previously explained how to make changes to DNS server settings on several platforms, including: Windows and Mac OS. In this article, we will show you how to change your DNS settings on your Android device. Short for "Domain Name Server", DNS is like the phone book of the internet. It contains lists of domain names to interpret them into IP addresses. Internet users can easily remember names of domain, however, machines and computer need to store IP addresses in t...

Many internet users complain about how slow the DNS server addresses provided by their ISPs are. If you notice the web pages you visit take a longer time to load than usual or your browsing in general is relatively sluggish, this probably due to the DNS server settings set by default on your Mac. In this guide, we will help you improve your Mac's performance by changing the DNS server settings. Changing DNS Server Settings on Mac Configuring the server settings on Mac O...

Introduction D-Link Corporation is a multinational company based in Taiwan that specializes in all networking products including reliable wireless routers. It was founded back in 1986 and was originally named Datex Systems Inc. It was not until 1994 when it changed its name to D-Link. Today it is one of the leading names in the networking industry and has been specializing in providing networking products to households as well as small and medium businesses. The D-Link wir...