Well, we have reached the last week of our 12 Days of Giveaways. It’s been an exciting 7 days of some of the best productivity apps, services, and products that help you get things done, and today we are going to offer you one of the the best apps to keep your passwords and…

As director of product marketing at Adobe, I speak with customers everyday about how they can better maximize their productivity in the workplace. They often tell me they spend more time figuring out how to do their jobs than actually doing them. Regularly faced with the staggering volume of information, they have difficulties keeping everyone on…

In a recent post, I recommended Panda’s Cloud Antivirus as a decent free antivirus program. Others have recommended different programs, and that’s fine – in the end, I don’t think there’s much meaningful difference between the various antivirus programs, at least in terms of security. Much more important…

In Monday’s article, we discussed the various ways home automation can make life easier. Today we’ll look at the primary commercial methods of automating the home—a true and grand lifehack, in that it hacks the primary habitat in your life! At the end of the day, there are two main methods of home automation. The most…

Over my next couple of articles, we’re going to take a look at home automation. This is a fascinating area that is, for some, a reality, but for many, something that borders on science fiction. The truth is, there are all sorts of products out there to help you automate elements of your home, ranging…

It’s hard to maintain a secure, virus-free Windows set-up. The Internet is like a minefield, where a poorly protected computer can become infected by all sorts of virii or allow malicious individuals to tinker with your hard drive’s contents, or worse, your operating system itself. Don’t waste any time getting your Windows computer secured. You don’t…

In my work with clients I have run into passwords in all kinds of unbelievably random and insecure places. I always shrink back from them when I see them… I don’t want to know! Passwords are the key to unimaginable ruin in the wrong hands, and it consistently shocks me how careless people are with…

IT Security posted a guide covering the basics of computer security. Some of the tips I would consider common sense, but it would be a good article to pass along to an inexperienced user. The tips are broken down into the following categories: The Basics: Spotting and Eliminating Threats As the saying goes, before you…

Just a note to bloggers using Wordpress: there’s an important security update in version 2.07 that will make your life easier, insofar as preventing a certain security exploit. Swing by Wordpress and download and update your sites accordingly. That is all…

Okay. Okay. I admit I like lists – that’s why I founded Listible. Now. This article is pretty cool – as it has both things that I like – a list of 99 tips and it is about email. A site IT security has consolidated 99 tips to make email more secure and make you…

There is an application called Dorgem (Windows Only), which has motion detection function on normal webcam. This is a pretty cool feature because you can convert webcam to a security camera. Dorgem also has couple of other features that are useful for security camera, such as capture images and store off-site (i.e. FTP site)…

There is a huge upset going on just now about the bomb plot foiled by the MI5 security branch in the UK. First of all, I want to say, “Great Job MI5!” The backlash is a lot of folks complaining about not getting to take the mouthwash on board the plane. Here is why they should hush. I once…

I’ve gone and lost my second USB stick. In the first case, the stick had some documents pertaining to my company’s business. Nothing damning, and nothing especially illegal, but annoying to lose and imagine out there in the wild. Oh, not to mention that it had a personal journal written in straight text that I’m…

Traveling Forever has a very informative and useful article on how to set up a USB stick for encryption and anonymous surfing, if you’re concerned about your internet privacy, especially when it comes to your government’s use of your data. You see, there are fundamental problems with the way the internet was designed in regards…

One of the best blog names ever, Marketallica, (from Istanbul) has a collection of ways to protect your digital assets. These are mostly software-based systems to report back to a service once you report your technology missing. We’re getting to have more valuable digital assets. Pictures, files, our archives…etc. Risk of losing or risk of…