Facebook may soon be loosening its grip just a little on its service. The social media giant is planning to begin allowing children to sign up for its service. Currently if you are under the age of 13 they will not allow you to join the website (Not that this really prevents children from joining…
Thomas Fox
There are two browser extensions that that can make your browsing experience much more enjoyable. These extensions are available in the popular browsers such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. They can be easily configured to block unwanted tackers, scripts, or even videos and audio.Ghostery is a browser extension that blocks trackers. You can choose…
There are many password recovery tools that you can use to either recover or change your password to allow to access your account again. Some of these are free, some cost money for the program and some cost money for dependencies.The first program I am going to cover will be the NT Password and Registry…
Microsoft has finally made their own social network. It advertises itself to students, but can be used by anyone. They call it So.cl and it is really easy to sign up for. All you need is a Facebook account or a Windows Live account. You can create you So.cl page with either of those credentials,…
For decades up until recently many IT professionals, businesses, and home users alike utilized “Sneakernet”. What is Sneakernet you ask? Sneakernet is what refers to someone taking a floppy disk, CD/DVD, or USB flash drive or hard drive from one computer to the other to transfer data between them. In the past many people did…
Verizon, the world’s leading cellphone service company has now decided it’s going to take back what it has told its loyal subscribers. The Unlimited Data plan that everyone was supposedly grandfathered into are going to be no more. Verizon’s current CFO Fran Shammo, said the company plans to force its existing unlimited data plan customers…
There have been a rise in malicious updates in the past few months. It has gotten so out of hand that the FBI has published warnings to not update your computers or any unsigned software updates on any untrusted network. Basically the little pop-ups that you get that claims there is a newer version of…
Have you ever wanted to know what Internet activities have taken place on you computer. There are many reasons for wanting to do this including: parental control, employee auditing, or maybe even finding a page that you found but cannot find again. There are many way to this from just checking your browsing history to…
Adobe’s various software offerings have been targets for hackers for a long time. Once again hackers have found exploits within the ever popular Flash platform. Hackers have just found a new exploit within Flash that allows hackers to take control of the user’s PC without their permission.The report given by Adobe on the issue says…
TaintDroid is an amazing tool to check out what your installed apps are sending and to where. Right now TaintDroid is not for everyone. It is in it developmental stage. However for application developers and rooted users of a Nexus S or a Nexus One this tool can be easily used. This tool can be…
A lot of users come into our shop with virus problems and one of the most common ways of getting a virus is by clicking on the wrong link. It also seems like every one of these clients have the same question, “How am I supposed to know what’s safe to click on?” The short…
Last year Motorola introduced the Lapdock. This is a docking system for your phone for a computer. Dual-Core phones can be docked and perform as a fully functional computer. The Motorola Atrix came out with Lapdock but one thing was lacking, a mouse. This is important because some websites require you to use a mouse…