Everyday we must use passwords to gain access to our own systems and devices in order to gain access to our own information. Unfortunately, we live in a world where this is necessary as a result of people all around the world continually trying to crack passwords to gain access to the masses of information available out there on the internet and on our personal computers. Simply putting a password on your computer and any internet related accounts you have is not enough, you must
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Hands-down, one of the coolest features of the new iPhone 6s and 6s plus is 3D Touch, that subtle touch mechanism that lets you quickly access common tasks fast as hell. Here are our 10 favorite shortcuts so far. Source: The 10 Best Things To Do With 3D Touch—And the Things We Wish It Did
The Windows 10 upgrade hasn’t been smooth sailing for everyone, and one common complaint is that the Start menu stops working for no apparent reason. Here are some ways to reactivate it. Source: Has your Windows 10 Start menu stopped working? Here are four ways to fix it – BT
The iOS 8.4.1 update was released last week. Before you go and install, here are some things you might want to be aware of before going down the road. As we all know, with every update from Apple, there seems to be good and bad which comes with it. There are some reports of issues with iPhone 5 models, but several fixes are available to remediate these issues, and there are plenty of iPhone 5s which do not have issues at all. Performance Updates You
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OpenDNS’s Andrew Hay sees danger confronting many enterprises in the era of the “Internet of Things” as Internet-ready consumer devices, not architect-ed for security, find their way onto corporate or government networks, often unbeknownst to administrators. Source: The ‘Internet of Things’ as a Security Risk – InfoRiskToday
A new and upcoming addition to “The Internet of Things” and Home Automation, this neat little gadget looks quite promising. Although the Switchmate has not yet been released, it appears to have simple installation with powerful results of being able to manually or automatically control your lights (or anything else switched) in your home from your smart-phone via bluetooth or any internet enabled device with the addition of an optional hub. This product is one I cannot wait to get my hands on.
On Friday in Portland Maine, two out of three suspects in a home robbery have been caught thanks to the home owners video monitoring system. The third suspect has also been identified as a result and it will only be a matter of time before he too is arrested.
I cannot believe this video is 4 years old now and I have never seen it before. Some very simple yet creative ideas for teaming up your iPad (or any other tablet) with some velcro and some strategic placement in your home, office, vehicle, etc. iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.
Do you have all your digital data backed up at home? Think of all your digital pictures that you never get around to printing. What would you do if they were all lost? I always stress backup to all of my clients. One of whom just learned the cost to recover photos and other personal data from a failed hard drive. Don’t let it happen to you, the decision to lose years of photos or shell out a couple thousand dollars isn’t an easy one
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Earlier this week, the Heartbleed vulnerability was announced causing major online sites to scramble and apply patches to their Open SSL authentication systems. Open SSL is one method of verifying your username and password for a website and it happens to be one of the most popular, used by as much as 60% of the web. Due to the fact that Open SSL is so widely used and the vulnerability can allow for an attacker to compromise data without leaving any trace, this “bug” is
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