Security Basics At Home
As a home computer user accessing the Internet, whether through a broadband connection or traditional dial-up, you should do the following three things at a minimum to protect your compute: Install and maintain anti-virus software. There are plenty of great anti-virus software packages available. This software checks for known viruses by scanning your computer periodically. [...]
Sony makes a patent move for Kinect style controller
We’re not suggesting Sony has a Kinect style controller coming soon, but it certainly filed a patent for one. The application for a “User-Driven Three-Dimensional Interactive Gaming Environment” was initially logged in October last year by Richard Marks of PlayStation Eye fame. The controller can “determine when to interact with the system by allowing part [...]
Reset Passwords
When Windows XP was originally installed, it created an Administrator account for the computer. Of course, this will only be helpful if you remember what password you assigned during the initial Windows XP installation (or if you left the Administrator account with a blank password, but you wouldn’t do that, right?). This account does not [...]
Microsoft Office for iPad spotted?
So, Microsoft Office for the iPad is supposedly coming, dressed in a Metro user interface. Fun, since running a fresh Metro application (like the XBox Live one) on the iPad accentuates just how outdated and archaic iOS really looks and feels next to Metro. An Android version is supposedly not in the works, but that’s [...]
Pantech Element review
You’ve heard of singin’ in the rain (and have likely seen the movie). You may have even attempted it once or twice, but tableting in the midst of a downpour? That doesn’t exactly conjure the same whimsy and spontaneous dance numbers. Yet, Pantech’s making such joyous, on-the-go content consumption possible with the aptly named Element. [...]
Change Wireless Password
Hackers have been hacking wireless networks for a long time, but they don’t even need to hack your wireless if you never changed your wireless router’s admin password from it’s default value. If you never changed the admin password on your router after you set it up the first time, then you all the hacker [...]
Samsung’s GT-i9300 is probably not the Galaxy S III, as revealed by its low-res screen
Straight from the Dana Scully school of debunking, Android Community has poured cold water on the notion that the GT-i9300 is the quasi-mythical Galaxy S III. Having happened upon the user agent profile of the device bearing that codename, the stats reveal a lackluster 1024 x 600 resolution display that’s easily beaten by the Galaxies [...]