There are plenty of free cloud storage services you can grab these days. You can get anywhere form 2 to 50 Gigabytes of space for your use. There are some caveats to consider though, there may be limits placed upon file sizes (i.e no uploading whole movies), and security of your files are often problematic. [...]
Ironically, it seems that when computers had a complex variety of inputs, inputs that took much fiddling to get to work (serial, parallel ports, various card formats, and cabling, that there were more external gadgets used. Now, in the world of more standardized connectors, and almost ubiquitous connections, external gadgets a less common… Maybe it’s [...]
There are plenty of things you can do to make yourself more secure online. It will take a little volition on your part to do it. The good news is that most of these changes are not that much work, and in most cases, they only have to be done once (or on a regular [...]
If you consider how most of us (generally) use and maintain passwords, you could see that we are living in a minefield of huge potential problems. If used correctly, passwords can be reasonably secure, unless the site is hacked, unless you leave information lying around, not use multi-factor identification, never change or update passwords, or [...]
While I use my Google Reader account and iPad magazine aggregators as a primary source of how I gather information these days, the fact is, I read most of it (at least as a first time) using one of the utilities I have which strip most of the extraneous formatting and advertisements out of the [...]
There are plenty of RSS readers out there…offline readers, desktop readers, iOS readers, android readers, and so on… I have been using Google Reader as the foundation of my personal information network since 2005. If you subscribe to any Google products (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc.) using GReader is literally a no-brainer. It takes [...]
Over the last decade I have been incrementally becoming more and more mobile…at least with regard to computers and the internet. The changes in personal technology have allowed me to progress from being tied to a desktop computer system-through a variety of laptops-to my current set-up (a little NetBook, an iPhone, and an iPad). Every [...]
Along with my previous posts for this week, I am presenting some information related to some topics I always reevaluate for myself at the end of the year (I like nice round numbers as much as anyone…). Today I have some links related to personal online and computer security. There are so many anti-virus and [...]
There are so many new ways in which you can interact with the cloud these days that it might not be so important to try to enumerate them. I have used EverNote and DropBox for several years, and have been taking my time to evaluate Microsoft’s SkyDrive (you get 25 gigabytes of free online storage!), [...]
About this time, every year, I set take stock of the computer based tools I use. Foremost of these is the web browser. I have been a Firefox adherent for years, but have taken the time to try out Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome…on a yearly basis. Amazingly enough or me this time, Google Chrome [...]
