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THE BAD NEWS From heartbleed.com The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers […]
The worst thing about passwords is trying to come up with a new one that is sufficiently complex, yet something you can remember. And how do you know if a password is easily guessed versus being a great password? How […]
Hey, if you are open to saving money with last year’s phone, and some people will be, check this out. It won’t work for the iPhone 5, but it does work really well for the Verizon iPhone 4S. I mentioned […]
Most Mac users have not even seen a virus in many years. But it could happen. I’ve been trying out Sophos AV for Mac (Free) for some time now in both Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard & Mac OS […]
I am now a contributing editor of Technical documentation for the CHIRP project. CHIRP is a free, open-source tool for programming your ham radio. It supports a large number of manufacturers and models, as well as provides a way to […]
How to Migrate from VirtualBox to Parallels I have a bunch of VirtualBox VMs that work fine under VBox, and I’d like to use them with Parallels Desktop 8 on Macintosh. Sadly, Parallels is not able to import them as-is, […]
Did your friends tell you that you sent them Twitter Spam? How could that have happened? Here is how to fix it and regain control of your Twitter account. Change your Twitter password. This the first step. It might be […]
It is possible to add an attachment as a signature to every outgoing email, but this is not desirable & there is a better way. Why to NOT use an attached graphic as a signature If you always send an […]
It is a good idea to change your email password every now & again. In many ways, control of your email account is the key to a lot of other things, such as recovering a ‘forgotten’ website password. So you […]
With the blustery winter weather comes the occasional power outage. Most of which are just a few seconds. I’m a well prepared techie, so I have 8 UPS Battery Back Ups in house to protect; my computer, another computer, database […]