When you’re on your laptop away from an outlet, the last thing you want is things like Flash animations on web pages eating up your battery life. But those sort of plugins do. Chrome has a new setting ...

Once upon a time I was working with a Windows user concerned about security. My first suggestion was to block Flash from running automatically in his Chrome browser. As documented on my ...

I’ve had Amazon smart plugs all over my house for years now. Essential doesn't even cover it—they run so much of my daily routine. But I made this stupid mistake for way too long: I'd just use my ...