In response to Facebook completely flipping all of us and giving us less and less privacy, I decided to start up my own social network. I just got it up and running yesterday so by all means this is far from the finished product. It will never include “games” like Facebook, if you want to [...]

I spend a lot of time cracking passwords! No, not for stealing software or information, for doing computer repair! One of the most common home or small business computer service repair calls I get is that Bob, fill in the blank here – lost his password / forgot his password / left the company and [...]

A computer file shredder was created for the same purpose as the paper file shredder. The intent is to complete obliterate not only the file, but in the most secure file shredder software, any reference to the file that was shredded is also shredded in the history and in the directory. Many people do not [...]

Email security is often overlooked by most of us (I know I am one of them) but with the recent commotion in the news about a college student breaking into Sarah Palin’s email address I figured it was time to do my service as an American citizen and help her (as well as anyone else) [...]

I usually try to stay away from very short posts that only contain a picture. But as Newegg has still not packaged my Xbox 360 and HDMI cable that I ordered at 12:50 their time and added rush processing, I’m going to do it. Click the picture to enbiggen it.

Well I haven’t done one of these in a while. I decided to do a bunch for this one as it will probably be my last one. There are a total of 8 pages so be sure to check them all out, the page navigation is at the bottom of this post. Also remember to [...]

Computer monitoring software is used to spy on a person’s internet activities. There are software programs nowadays that can track everything a person does on the computer -record instant message conversations, log emails sent and received, record all visited websites, so on and so on. The programs can be hidden from the unsuspecting user, and [...]

When it comes to computer security, many of us live in a bubble of blissful ignorance. We might be vigilant and never open email attachments from people we don’t know, we might take care to make sure an ecommerce site is secure before entering our credit card information, or we might even go so far [...]

Well it is no surprise that A Nightmare on Elm Street came out on top this weekend at the box office. Bringing in an estimated $32.2 million, being shown on 4,700 screens at 3,332 theaters it was the biggest movie this weekend. Another interesting fact is it saw a greater initial attendance than the remake [...]

Even though that Microsoft stopped supporting Xbox games via Xbox Live there are still die hard Halo 2 fans out there keeping their consoles on to avoid being kicked off the service. Currently there are only 12 people left on Halo 2, but it could be quite some time before Halo 2 is finally off [...]