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Securing Your Digital World: Password Safes
Last week, we had a nice long talk about passwords. We went over what why you would need a secure password and what exactly is a secure password. There were even some links to secure password generating websites. One of the major points of the last article was that you really should use a different secure password for each of your important websites. This means that you need to have quite a few hard to remember passwords. I mentioned a product known as a password safe. This is a nifty little application that will allow you to store your passwords in a single location. But is that unsecure? Well yes and no. Lets look into that real quick. Continue reading
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Securing Your Digital World: Passwords
When it comes to securing yourself in your little digital world, everything revolves around your passwords. Your passwords are the first and major line of defense in securing your personal data be it email, documents, or even your money. The problem is, most people have fairly unsecure passwords and as a result their “front lines” are weak and easily penetrable. So how do we create secure passwords? What makes a password “secure”? And how many passwords should you have? We will answer all of these very important questions in this article. Continue reading
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Securing Your Digital World: Introduction
In this series I hope to help teach you how can take steps to secure your data on your computer, laptop, and on any other devices you might use. Some of what we discuss might be common sense or even second nature to some of you but it is always good to cover all the basis. To some of you, a lot of this might seem like overkill but believe me when I say that while it might seem that way, the reality is you can never be too careful when it comes to protecting your personal data both online and offline. Some of the items discussed will require some extra steps on the reader’s part to actually implement them. Continue reading
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Why Apple Owns the Mp3 Player Market
Last Wednesday, Apple made several announcement regarding their iPod line of products. The announcement ran from new Shuffle colors, all the way to the iPod Touch. At the end of the event, Steve Jobs (Apple’s CEO) made a surprise announcement. He dropped the price of the 8GB iPhone which had been sitting at $599 since its launch, to $399. That is a two hundred dollar price drop for those that are like me and bad at math. This incredibly strategic move by Apple shows why they are an industry leader and remain so when it comes the mp3 player market. Continue reading
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iTunes/iPod Tips & Tricks: Recap
We have completed our series on “iTunes/iPods Tips & Tricks” and we learned how to do many nifty things with both our iPods and with iTunes. If you missed any part of this Almost, Not Yet technology series, you can find links to every article below. Continue reading
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Big Companies & Open Source
Last week, IBM announced that they would put somewhere around thirty developers on OpenOffice to help improve the product through bug fixes, new features, and collaborating with the OpenOffice team. The reason IBM says they are doing this is because they are seeing wide adoption of OpenOffice and it’s ODF (Open Document Format) by governments and companies the world over. But what makes this interesting is the fact that IBM is paying employees to work solely on an open source project, giving away features, code, and resources to a project that long term, makes them next to no money (if any at all). Big Blue seems to be doing this a lot lately. Why would a company do this? Continue reading →