Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Here’s the scene: You’re browsing through your photos in File Explorer, when you see an adorable picture of your dog that you absolutely must upload to Facebook right now. If you’re using Windows 8, you can swipe open the Charms bar and click the Share charm. But if you’re using Windows 10, …

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET I think everyone should have decent online stalking skills. Not because I condone stalking, but because knowledge is power — if you don’t know how to find people online, how do you know what people can find about you online? Googling yourself is like checking your credit report for inaccuracies: it’s only effective as a preventative measure …

The secret to winning at social media is being, or at least appearing to be, constantly present. As in, never sleeping, never eating (unless you’re Instagramming that food, I suppose), never taking a bad selfie, and never doing anything except Tweeting every second of your life. The easiest way to cultivate a flawless online presence is to hire someone else …

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET This happens to me often, especially when I’m visiting relatives’ houses: My computer knows the Wi-Fi password from when I last connected to the network — two years ago — but I’ve completely forgotten it, though my mother is about 65 percent sure she wrote it down on a Post-it note seven months ago. A forgotten Wi-Fi …