This weeks wallpaper is an image of an intensely colored sunset over a large body of water. Shades of burnt orange and mauve form the main color palette with lighter shades to the right and darker shades to the left. The water has low shallow swells that are echoed in the shapes of the clouds. Icons show up very well on this background.

If you're concerned what kind of data is collected by Microsoft in Windows 10 here are steps you can take to maximize your privacy.

Google Maps may be the most well known mapping system, but it isn't perfect. If you're looking for different features, more accurate data, live in a country where Google is blocked or don't want to be part of Google's data collecting algorithms, these alternatives can get you where you want to go.

Cut through the corporate phone maze to talk to a human in customer service: these two sites have phone numbers to reach customer service directly for most major corporations and many smaller companies.

Most corporations have online chat or other ways to contact them when an issue comes up, but sometimes you need to talk to a person to get something resolved.

Find all the Kindle books that are currently free on Amazon in once place (Amazon US only).

Amazon has an ongoing selection of Kindle books you can download for free.
There's a lot of them, but you can choose genres and categories that make browsing for what you want to read easier. Amazon rotates books in and out of the free category. If there's a book you want to read, it's better to get it sooner rather than waiting; it might disappear.