I have written about signatures for both email and forums several times over the years, but today I would like to leave this post a little open ended and get some reader comments. My thoughts on signatures (for business communication) are they should essentially be a shortcut for people to get in touch with you. Only relevant contact information about yourself...

The popular game, Portal, has been made available via a free download for a limited time (May 24). Since I have never personally played it, I am getting the description of the game from Wikipedia’s page: The game consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player’s character and simple objects using the Aperture...

The title of this tip is taken from a post which addresses this very question. The data the author uses is from this Google post. The numbers are pretty eye opening when you view the total aggregates and just illustrates that everything we do has some footprint. While running a search is a mere drop in the ocean, the flip side is the ocean is full because there...

A while ago I wrote about VirusTotal which is an online on-demand scanner which checks files against lots of different scanning engines. This free service offers several ways to scan a file on-demand:Upload via a webpage Email as an attachment Use their Send To toolI am not exactly sure when the Send To tool was made available, but this definitely makes the...

We have probably all watched movies where technology is depicted as either flying mathematical signs (i.e. Hackers) or security systems are easily bypassed by smashing either a computer or electronic lock keypad. So for your reading enjoyment you may find this article titled “Top 10 biggest tech flaws in films” enjoyable. Such films on the list...

If you are looking for a little fun in an otherwise boring day, instead of “aimlessly” wondering the web, why not blow it up? Using the unique Firefox add-on, Destroy the Web (see note below), you can do just that. Destroy the Web is a game add-on for Firefox, built specifically to take advantage of the new features introduced in Firefox 3.5. A first...

If you ever have the need to perform simple text encryption to, for example, “hide” text, send secret messages or just fool around, then here are a few resources you may be interested in:Base64 encoder/decoder Text to hexadecimal Text to binaryWhile none of these should be considered secure, they are a very easy way to disguise the target...

To run a Windows application on a Mac, you have to go the virtual machine route of running Windows with Mac OSX. While there are numerous how-to’s out there on how to get Windows up and running in Mac, once you get it going you might be interested in this post: How to Seamlessly Run That One Windows App You Need on a Mac. As I was scrolling through this,...

If you use a popular web platform as WordPress, phpBB, etc, while these systems are updated frequently, their popularity makes them an ideal target for attacks. While keeping your site updated and as locked down as possible is your best bet to protect yourself, exploiters are seemingly always one step ahead of developers when it comes to security. That said, if...

If you are unsure of what a mosaic is, it is simply a big picture made up of a bunch of smaller pictures which are tiled on a large grid. The effect is typically pretty neat. If you would like to make your own mosaics, then check out AndreaMosaic. I have used this title and it is ridiculously easy to use. Just select your master photo (the picture to turn into a...