Evernote – better than Post-it® Notes
On 2012/01/30
Evernote is a wonderful service that lets you easily create, save, and synchronize your notes to most any computational device. I use it and highly recommend it.
The basic Evernote service is free. The company provides free apps you can download and install that run on Windows, Mac and Linux computers, and Android, [...]
Who are the bad guys?
On 2012/01/23
Wednesday evening, January 25, 2012, I am presenting Being Safe in a Digital World to the Cotton Club Greenwich, a Greenwich, CT group. The talk is intended to help tighten up one’s mental and digital defenses against digital data and privacy loss. My preparation got me thinking, “Who do we need to defend ourselves against?”
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Security on a budget, done right!
On 2012/01/15
Alex Lindsay’s Manifesto against SOPA/PIPA
On 2012/01/14
Alex Lindsay of the Pixel Corps posted the following on Google+:
The Manifesto…
We’ve tried to ignore the problem… I tried to ignore the problem. I wanted to ignore the politics of the internet and, in many ways, politics itself. From a netizen point of view, Democracy often seems [...]
Your encrypted Wi-Fi signal is easily cracked
On 2012/01/11
We all knew that WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy or Wireless Encryption Protocol) was worthless. WEP can be cracked in minutes by a knowledgeable cracker. But WEP was replaced with the WPA and then by the better WPA2 protocols. (WPA stands for Wi-Fi Protected Access.) If you have an encrypted [...]
Spud-a-thon™ 2012
On 2012/01/10
Mix one potato, a modicum of hair spray, a spark and we have…
My wife Marianne is deeply involved with the classic car community. Although an art historian by training and experience, she started on the road to “gear-head” several years ago when she became the curator/director for a classic car museum in Bernardsville, [...]
2011 Hardware Favorites
On 2011/12/31
Below is a list of some 2011 hardware I like, listed from most to least expensive. (Prices listed are/were current as of Saturday, December 31, 2011.)
Apple 13-inch MacBook Air ($1,299 to $1,778)
My initial and continuing impression of the first and second generation MacBook Air, which [...]
Copy as Path in Windows 7, Vista and XP
On 2011/12/21
Copy as Path lets you place a file name along with its path information into the Windows 7 clipboard. I only learned about this great Windows 7 feature in November from my friend Ed Bott’s article Ten Tricks every Windows 7 power user should know. I didn’t know that Microsoft [...]
Cell carriers add insult to injury
On 2011/12/18
The Carrier IQ pre-installed keylogging rootkit software has been a big item in tech security news ever since Trevor Eckhart of Torrington, CT unleashed his analysis on his WordPress blog a few weeks ago.
Cell phone carriers, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, but not Verizon, installed this software on Android [...]
Year-end is a good time to backup your contacts
On 2011/12/16
Losing your contact or address book is a digital catastrophe, second only to losing your photos. You can’t re-take your photos. Recreating your contact list is painful, difficult and impossible for some of the people in your list .
When was the last time that you checked to see if your current email or cellphone [...]
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