Learn how to protect yourself from cybercrimes with useful tips and tricks from tech expert Kim Komando like turning off your location services and Bluetooth.

Spell check was an early convenience for computers. Now there are millions of small utilities to make life easier. Here are Kim Komando's top 5. Kim Komando, Special for USA Today Square offers small and medium-sized businesses a suite of tools that business owners can use to run their business efficiently. Starting your own business takes a whole lot of guts, optimism, and passion. Not to mention a ton of hard work and the need to pinch pennies anywhere you can.

Here are 21 commands that even seasoned Echo users may not know. Many of them are useful, some are fun, and others give the illusion that Alexa is as cognizant as we are. Ask Alexa how to treat cuts, burns, fevers and more. More than any other device, Alexa has become our closest approximation of artificial intelligence. Amazon's voice assistant has a voice and personality, and if you ask the right question, it'll even get sassy with you.

Spell check was an early convenience for computers. Now there are millions of small utilities to make life easier. Here are Kim Komando's top 5. Kim Komando, Special for USA Today It's hard to imagine life without spell check. Here are other tech habits that make life easier. Some of us still remember life before spell check.

Spell check was an early convenience for computers. Now there are millions of small utilities to make life easier. Here are Kim Komando's top 5. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed.

These tiny hard drives have fallen out of favor, but we all have them. Columnist Kim Komando has ways to re-use and repurpose. Many households have moved on from thumb drives. But there are ways to repurpose them for safer, faster computing. Thumb drives used to be so cool.

From shopping to travel to connecting other smart devices, Kim Komando shows you the best commands for Alexa. The Echo dot is a smaller Alexa-powered Amazon speaker. No matter how many Amazon Echo commercials you see, it takes a little time to adjust to Alexa. Putting a virtual assistant in your home signals a change in lifestyle, sort of like adopting a puppy. There will be a lot of trial-and-error, but once you find your rhythm, you'll forget what life was like without it. The Amazon Echo listens for the wake word, Alexa.

If you've got an Echo or another Alexa-powered device around the house, you'll want to review your privacy settings. Kim Komando tells you how. More consumers are buying voice-activated assistants like the Amazon Echo 2, shown here. If you're one of them, it's important to check the privacy settings on these listening devices. People used to dream about robot secretaries.