Securely Delete Confidential Files

October 15, 2009

Have you ever misplaced a file? Left your account logged in? Lost your laptop? These are all security risks which put you, your company, and your family at risk. While risk can’t be perfectly eliminated, there are prudent measures you can take to preserve your business information. When you are giving away or selling your [...]

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Best Flash Games

October 15, 2009

I’ve posted before about how much I enjoy mindless diversions in the form of simple flash games, so I’d like to share a few of my top websites for that sort of thing.
#1 JayisGames: A huge website featuring links to thousands of flash and casual games, including reviews, walkthroughs, strategies, demos, and more. There’s sure [...]

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Wordpress Hacked

October 1, 2009

Recently, Front Porch Republic was hacked. There are several things you can look for:
1. Backup your database and files. Even if they’re hacked, they will probably still have virtually everything unless it was a particularly malicious hack.
2. Delete new files. See if there is a default.htm, default.html, index.html, or index.htm in the same director as [...]

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Spiderweb Software

September 29, 2009

I’ve always been a fan of independent games. You know, the cheap, low budget games that no one’s ever heard of. They’re often a lot more fun than the top-of-the-line brand new $60 dollar Xbox360/PS3/Wii/PC games, and you don’t need an amazing computer or console to run them. Often, simple=better.
Spiderweb Software, a small company founded [...]

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Google Sidewiki

September 24, 2009

Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that lets you read and contribute comments and information about any webpage. It is currently available for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 8. It allows you to make comments on any website that can be read by anyone else with the Sidewiki sidebar.  This has been tried quite a [...]

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What Can a Website Do for My Business?

September 24, 2009

A website can double, triple, or even quadruple your sales. Many people hesitate at investing in a website, which is a mistake in our technology age. There are many reasons to have a website built for yourself or your business, small or large.
1. Cheapest Advertising. Website domain names cost about $10 per year. And hosting [...]

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Google Frame 10 Times Faster Than Internet Explorer; Microsoft Whines

September 24, 2009

In a test run by Computerworld, Google Chrome Frame, the plugin that turns Internet Explorer into Google Chrome, ran 9.6 times faster than Internet Explorer 8. Surely there must be a downside to this kind of speed increase? Microsoft claims there is. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, “Given the security issues with plugins in general [...]

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What is Technology?

September 24, 2009

In its essence, technology is incomplete. Like a battery, it is always waiting as standing-reserve to be realized. By itself a battery merely holds charge. It is useful for virtually any imaginable thing, but is neutral in itself. So what is the point of technology? Certainly the point of something is not itself. The purpose [...]

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Kindle & eReader

September 23, 2009

Amazon’s Kindle is riddled with caveats and exclusive DRM, forcing product loyalty not because of quality, but because of necessity–who wants to throw away dozens (or hundreds) of ebooks? Certainly not us! The same is true of iTunes. Good news, though, is that the Irex eReader will be better than the Kindle in almost every [...]

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DRM Not Quite Dead?

September 23, 2009

Microsoft has just been awarded a U.S. patent for a distributed DRM system, which would work over Peer to Peer networks(P2P). In a post on Information Week, they state that: “This is significant because, while centralized music stores like Apple’s iTunes have forsaken DRM, the Microsoft patent would enable peer-to-peer networks to reemerge as viable, [...]

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