Traditional hard drives (HDD) have been around for a long time. They have been popularly used in computers, laptops and other machines for a long, long time. However, some are now of the opinion that the next-generation storage technology, solid-state drive (SSD) is finally here. Is that true? Below is a comparison between SSD and HDD and a conclusion explaining which one is better and why.
Last Thursday, FBI arrested New Jersey mayor Felix Roque and his son Joseph Roque on suspicion of hacking into a website of political foes who were seeking the Mayor’s recall. If the charge is proved, both the son and the father have to pay a long-term visit to prison that may extend up to 11 years, and have to pay fines up to $750,000.
It seems that the iOS community was desperately waiting for iOS hackers to release a version 2.0 of Absinthe, the jailbreaking tool. The version 2.0 allows untethered jailbreak of iOS 5.1.1, which meant that owners of new iPad needed it if they wanted to use a jailbroken tablet. Only two days ago, we reported that iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team had released Absinthe 2.0.
You probably use dozens of Internet services, each protected by a password. To avoid getting hacked on all your accounts, it is better to use complex passwords mix with letters, numbers and special characters and avoid using the same password each time. So how do you keep all your passwords without compromising the security of your information? If you ask me I will suggest you a free app for Windows called LastPass, which will help you to securely manage your passwords. Functioning as a safe, this security software allows you to record your passwords and sensitive information in a encrypted database (AES – 256 bits) accessible via a single strong password that you will remember.
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With so many advaced features Androids, iPhones and Windows smartphones offers, they become indispensable in our daily life. However with all this it raises new issues in terms of security of our personal and professional data. Surprisingly, there is a very little literature on the subject. In this TheTechJournal tutorial, I will give you my own tips and suggestions on which apps you should be using on your Android phone in order to be sure you data is safe and secure.
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If you having problems starting your computer with Windows XP because it won’t boot at all, there could be plenty of reason for that to happen. In this tutorial I will cover some of most frequent techniques you can use in order to fix your Windows XP or in some cases even newer versions and make your Windows boot and start again without any kind of problems.
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You like to regularly change the wallpapers and display personal photos or view beautiful images from the Internet? To give a life to your desktop background, you can automate a rotation between images. For this you can use the free John’s Background Switcher. In this complete tutorial I will show you how to effectively manage your desktop background and wallpapers using this free tool under Windows 7.
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Windows 7 has a very effective tool called parental control which can help you to monitor and filter web sites your child visit, time they spend on the computer, software and video games they use, etc… Comprehensive and effective tool, but again fairly simple to implement, as you will see in this tutorial. One constraint however, you must have an account with administrative rights on your computer which will be protected by a password (to prevent one of your children does not change the protection settings). Also, to enable web filtering, you also must have a Windows Live (Messenger, Hotmail, etc…) which will be associated with your web filtering settings.