Feb 18th, 2010
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Sending someone large files isn’t as easy as attaching them to an email. If you’ve ever tried that, you’ll remember the cryptic “Mailer Daemon / Postmaster Failure” notice you received shortly after. This notice means the email didn’t go through and was dropped. Why? Because many email providers have limits on their attachment size. Go over that limit and your email will be dropped.
How then are you supposed to send a large file to someone? What if they are three time zones away, or in another country? You’ll still use the internet, but you won’t be using email.
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Feb 11th, 2010
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Ever thought about starting up your own website? Need to access your home computers from the outside world? Set up a security camera system and want to view it remotely? Since most internet service plans have a dynamic or changing IP address, any reason you can think of to contact your home network has to work with an IP address that could change at any moment.
You can solve this problem with Dynamic DNS. Here’s how it works:
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Feb 1st, 2010
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There’s a little bit of disappointment in Apple’s iPad announcement. Many were expecting an earth-shattering new device and all they got was an oversized 3G iPod Touch. As a follow-up to my recent article, Why you should relax about the new Apple Tablet, I’m going to explore why I’m not sure about the new iPad. There’s a great deal of potential in it, yet the first generation isn’t quite there yet.
Here’s six things the Second Generation iPad could use, and the likelihood we’ll see it:
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Jan 25th, 2010
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There are other .MP3 players out there besides the iPod. Sandisk makes the Sansa line, Creative makes the Zen series, Sony has its Walkman, ARCHOS is popular and don’t forget about the Zune.
Not everyone’s .MP3 player is an iPod (or iPhone). Some are recent switchers, new to the Mac. Others wanted something less expensive or received it as a gift. Whatever the reason, a huge question for you is “Does my non-Apple .MP3 player work with OS X?”
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Jan 21st, 2010
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In part one, we looked at turning on SSL to encrypt the reading and sending of emails. This secures you from eavesdropping on your local and / or ISP network. The minute your email goes through a non secure connection, which is quite often, its not secure anymore. The way to guarantee that your private emails remain private is to encrypt the email itself.
Encrypting emails sounds like something extraordinarily difficult that only spies do. I think that once everyone sees just how easy it is to encrypt emails, it’s surprising that more people don’t.
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