LifeHacker [ http://www.lifehacker.com/ ] to the rescue again! For those of you who would love to have access to all of your files from wherever you go and whatever computer you might use, and would also like the ability to transfer files to your home computer or home network, this trick is for you! I [...]
One of my favorite sites, LifeHacker [ http://www.lifehacker.com/ ] has a few tips that I know for a fact a lot of people need; TinyURL etiquitte. Too often people use TinyURLs for everything without remembering that when you use a TinyURL you lose the context of the link, so people don’t know what they’re clicking. [...]
Lifehack.org has published a list of their essential firefox extensions. Some of my favorites are naturally missing, but that’s okay with me-there are a lot of excellent suggestions here, and there are links under the list to favorite extension lists around the web. I really like this list; there are a few here that I [...]
Another excellent Extremetech article all about hacking your favorite software! Firefox [ http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ ], which is my web browser of choice at least, and the browser of choice for internet savvy browsers around the globe, is probably the most customizable web browsing program ever, and customizing it is incredibly easy. Extremetech has, for those who [...]
Extremetech to the rescue! For all the folks who recently bought Macs or just upgraded to Mac OS 10.4, “Tiger,” there are a ton of awesome tools and utilities that’ll let you get under the hood and change the settings in a way that System Preferences never let you do! A lot of these techniques [...]
Andy Walker’s new book, Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Security, Spam Spyware and Viruses is slated to hit the store shelves in late October, and you can already preorder the book at Amazon. [ Amazon US | Amazon CA ] The book looks good so far, and looks to be full of tons of valuable information [...]
Kevin Mitnick, perhaps one of the security world’s most famous convicted hackers, now spends much of his time consulting on matters of IT security for various institutions, and his message is clear, real, and while not old, definitely fresh for some ears. Social Engineering is a much greater threat than viruses, worms, and other software [...]
ExtremeTech.com has an excellent piece today on keeping your computer in good working order. From physical maintenance to cleaning up your system’s software, purging startup files, and getting together something of a maintenance regimen for your system, you can keep your computer in tip top shape at all times and make sure it’s in excellent [...]
In the true spirit of the old Screen Savers segments when you would build either the Ultimate Gaming Machine or that memorable time when Patrick Norton managed to cobble together a pretty damned swanky gaming system for only 500 bucks, ExtremeTech has a how-to on how to build your own gaming PC for $800 bucks. [...]
Courtesy of Eric Craft in the TechTV Forever Yahoogroup [ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techtv-forever/ ] we have a ton of reviews for some of the most popular Linux distros available, including the obscenely popular Ubuntu, which has seen rising popularity in recent days. SuSE [ http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1791610,00.asp ] [ http://usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6399 ] Ubuntu [ http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,120520,00.asp ] [ http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10413 ] Xandros [...]
As part of their “Microsoft-Free Home” series, ExtremeTech put together a particularly interesting how-to on building your own Linux-based HTPC, complete with DVR capability. For the non acronym-savvy in the audience, what the really means is building a computer that you can use for home entertainment, movies, music, the works, based on Linux, and that [...]
The folks at PCWorld never fail to dissapoint, and this time is no exception. Ever wonder what to do with that old monitor you’re replacing, or that old computer that’s up and died, and you’ve long since picked up a new one to replace it? What about that laptop that they say will take a [...]
Looks like Andy Walker, of Call for Help 2.0 fame, is writing a book on computer security! The book should be geared towards end-users, average people who are concerned about keeping themselves safe online but may not be all into computers or particularly knowledgeable from the getgo. It looks like it has promise, we haven’t [...]
I’m a huge advocate of Picasa, Google’s photo application that does more than just catalog all the images on your system, but it’ll do everything from create custom slide shows and presentations to create a searchable index of all of your images, and if you’re like me at all, you have hundreds and hundres of [...]
I’m not entirely sure why anyone would really need an exceptionally slow 4GB RAID array, but this guy did it: [ http://www.wrightthisway.com/Articles/000154.html ] It took something like 11 minutes to copy about 1.8GB from his G5 to the 4GB RAID array, but it’s just proof that it can be done! So if you need to [...]
Another in the line of iPod goodness today, here’s something for all you guys with a regular iPod (since the last tip applied to the Shuffle and the Mini): Constantly worried about scratching up the mirrored finish on the back of your iPod? If you’re like me, you’ve probably already scratched it a few times-but [...]
Got an iPod Shuffle yet? Ready to trick it out, make it really yours? Here’s a little something that’ll make your iPod Shuffle stand out from the crowd when you hang it around your neck, and it’ll make sure the thing will never get lost. Ipod Shuffle skins! Check it out: [ http://www.evolutionvinylworks.com/?function=&cat_id=140 ] These [...]
This morning I happened on a treasure trove of Firefox extensions; some of them allow you to easily back up your bookmarks, one of them remembers the tabs you have open(so if you crash or have to restart or something happens to Firefox, you can reopen Firefox and go back to the tabs you had [...]
In a Christmas Eve blog post, David Pouge sings the praises of Firefox, especially in the wake of yet another Internet Explorer vulnerability being found; this time related to exactly how easy it is for phishers to falsify web address information when a user is using IE. His suggestion for keeping safe and secure on [...]
This tip was kindly posted by Jean, a member of the TechTV Forever and Long Live TechTV Yahoogroups! It’s a really good one, and anyone who’s done any IT work knows that sometimes the tipoff to what caused a specific problem or system failure has everything to do with what’s changed on the system recently. [...]
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