In the past, I have written about the woes of international travel when it comes to keeping connected online with many hotels choosing to slug guests heavily for Wi-Fi in rooms with little or no coverage in common areas of the hotel. Yes, I can hear some of you crying that being on holiday should …
Tag: encryption
Mar 10 2012
Demysti-Fi Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi has been one of those conveniences that has been around for a little while now but with an increasing number of Wi-Fi standards you could be forgiven for not understanding some of the key differences (including speed and connection requirements) between them all. Currently, we have four Wi-Fi standards with another one on …
Jan 23 2012
Get Your Bitcasa Invite Here!
Here’s something that might interest those cloud storage enthusiasts out there or people wanting to check things out before migrating their data. If you want to try out Bitcasa which touts as being able to provide “infinite storage on your desktop” then here’s you chance to get an account. Just click here to signup and check …
May 06 2011
Network Traffic Anomaly Detected in LastPass Service
For those that don’t know, LastPass is a fantastic free service that takes care of your password management for websites plus other neat things such as automatic form filling and random password generation. I’ve used this for a while myself across multiple computers (under Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome), my iPad and Samsung Galaxy S …
Feb 03 2011
Secure Your Google Searches with SSL
A quick tip tonight. For a while, Google has allowed the use of SSL with its search product by manually visiting https://encrypted.google.com but this has not been widely advertised in the past. However, it seems for residents in the USA that this is now becoming the default search page when people are visiting the regular …
Nov 28 2010
SlySoft Discontinuing Lifetime Upgrades
It seems that many good things come to an end far sooner than we would expect or would hope. SlySoft, the creator of such software including CloneCD, CloneDVD and AnyDVD will be ceasing sales of software including free lifetime upgrades for software from 1 January 2011. Whilst this is disappointing news, this does mean you …
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