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+10 reasons I like Google+ better than facebook
05 months ago
10 reasons I like Google+ better
10. Circles are easier to manage than lists. I didn’t even create many of these lists and don’t care about them.
9. I think I found the “Is” over there.
8. How many shades of blue can you really have? Add some color fb
7. It’s like twitter and Facebook, but it’s neither. It’s something new.
6. Profile pictures flip. That’s pretty awesome.
5. I can actually understand the notifications list and it doesn’t change every other week.
4. I already use the calendar, the browser, the mail, the search, the video service, the operating system (android) and so on.
3. ALL SSL – I mean really.
Secure That Connection
05 months ago
Have you ever heard of firesheep? Whether you have or have not, it’s important that you hear about it now. Firesheep is an add-on to firebox that allows the user to see who is connected to an unsecured wireless network.
Wireless routers are becoming quite common because of their low price and availability and because of the number of people now on broadband connections. If you own a wireless network, SECURE IT! If you are not sure how to secure it, follow one of the links below. If you have an unsecured network, anyone can sit on the road near your house, in the apartment next door, or even just outside your home, connect to your network, and with firesheep installed steal information about you as you login to Facebook, make a credit card purchase or use a program like Skype or Netflix. Basically, you can be easily compromised. It’s very easy to secure a network and well worth it.
If you go to a public place, make sure you use only a secure network. You really should never connect to
unsecured networks for anything. If the establishment doesn’t have a secured network, ask them to secure it. They may respond with it’s too hard to let everyone know what it is. Then tell them to make a sign. It can simply say “The password for this secure network is…….. and spell out the password. A secured connection that everyone knows is far better than a completely unsecured connection.
Finally, it’s of utmost importance that it be WPA-2 security. This is easiest to setup too since you can make any password be anything you want. If you want to keep from letting your neighbors on your network, make a harder password, but make your connection secure no matter what you do.
This of course will change as technology evolves. Someone will find something that makes WPA-2 obsolete, but until then, use it.
Useful Links:
Motorola Triumph Flicker Fix
05 months ago
Getting a new phone is a great thing. Getting it for free is even better. That’s what happened to me recently when I received a Motorola Triumph. The Triumph is a Virgin Mobile phone running Android 2.2 (Froyo). Life was good when it arrived because my current phone at the time was not working at all. However I quickly noticed something didn’t see right with the triumph.
After doing some quick Google research, I discovered that many people were reporting that the phone had a flicker pro
blem. While typing a text, browsing the web, or just looking at it, the brightness would dim, and then come back on. It looked like an older television coming on. It would slowly fade in and out.
It seems that few actually realize however that Android devices have a power widget and on this power widget is a brightness control. The Motorola Triumph, and probably other devices as well, default to the Auto Brightness setting but the Triumph didn’t handle it well. By simply choosing a different brigthness level other than auto, the flicker problem was gone for good.
So if you have an android device of any sort, don’t forget to check out the power widget which is also good for turning on and off wi-fi, bluetooth, sync, and of course the brightness.
See also:
Tech Crunch Reports Flicker Problem
Virgin Mobile and the Motorola Triumph