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Can Insync dethrone Dropbox as a cloud storage service?

January 13, 2012 – 3:22 pm |

A couple of weeks ago I read a Techcrunch article about Insync. It is a service that works almost identically to Dropbox. Their differentiating feature is the fact that they use your Google Docs account …

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Speed up your website and get IPv6 compatibility for free!

September 29, 2011 – 5:38 pm | Comments Off

Prerequisites
This is going to be a pretty high tech article, but the benefits outweigh the work that it requires. I’m going to talk about using cloudflare.com to cache your website and offer IPv6 compatibility. For …

I’ve been hacked and you can learn from my mistakes. :-)

August 28, 2011 – 4:52 pm | 4 Comments

Hacked!
Yes, I let my WordPress installation rot. And it’s entirely my fault. WordPress makes it so easy to keep it up to date now that there is no excuse, so I do accept full responsibility! …

Goodreader app now supports annotating PDFs

October 3, 2010 – 10:15 am | One Comment

The latest update to the best $.99 I’ve ever spent on an all for my iPad just made the application even better. Goodreader now allows you to mark up PDFs, adding notes, highlighting text, or …

Facebook’s new privacy settings

December 13, 2009 – 3:45 pm | Comments Off
Facebook’s new privacy settings

photo credit: ekurvine
Facebook has begun rolling out new settings for who can see your Facebook profile and what they can see on your profile. I suggest you double-check what is viewable about you. I …

Portable blogging

November 11, 2008 – 11:15 am | Comments Off

I’m testing out a mobile blogging client for my Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone, MoBlog. It appears to work ok, including allowing me to insert an image from my phone. I’ll post a longer review once …

Beware of that Firewire port!

March 6, 2008 – 6:26 am | Comments Off

There is a new technique that allows an attacker to unlock a Windows machine or login without a password. This vulnerability also affects OS X. Right now the hack currently requires a Linux laptop, but …