About Tab Stop

Tab Stop is an independent site of how-to and tool guides. It sticks to the everyday end of technology: getting a Windows PC, an Android phone or a game controller to do what its owner wants, keeping an inbox and a website secure, and picking the software a small business needs to sell, plan and publish.

How a guide is put together

A guide starts from a question someone might type into a search box and answers it near the top of the page. Where several tools can do the job, it names the ones that existed at the time, says what each is good for and where it falls short, and drops any product whose existence could not be confirmed. The guides draw on makers’ documentation and public information. They do not report hands-on tests, and none pretends to. When a vendor’s own help page settles a point, a guide may link to it.

Dates and addresses

Many guides use addresses at which these subjects appeared on this domain some years ago. Those earlier pages are gone. Each guide at one of those addresses was written anew for the date it shows, so it describes the software as things stood then; a later change earns a sentence of its own only once it has been checked. Newer pieces carry the date they were written. Whoever ran this domain earlier has no connection with Tab Stop, and none of them wrote or approved a word of it.

Lawful use only

Every guide assumes legal use: games you own, services you pay for, accounts that belong to you. Pages about emulators, VPNs and disposable email addresses say so in plain terms, and the site does not link to pirated games or films or explain how to slip past a service’s rules.

Not on the pages

No page carries an author’s name or any advertising. Nothing runs in your browser, and no cookie is set. Corrections are welcome through the contact page.