Google Safe Browsing is enabled by default in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. This is what both browsers use to determine whether a web site is "safe" or not to display. You can use this feature independently in any browser. This is especially useful if you’re ever on a PC with an older browser with older or no screening safeguards. All you...

There’s a lot of people who have the desire to shoot video while driving, but then quickly give up the notion after realizing how much of a pain it can be. However it’s not all that difficult if you know how to do it in a safe way that doesn’t inconvenience you. One way is to build a mount, like this:There are a few immediate issues with the...

Periodically I am asked whether it’s “safe” to leave a computer on all the time. The answer is yes if it’s a desktop (meaning not a laptop). Chances are if you’ve been using computers long enough you’ve encountered at least one instance where some type of hardware failure occurred right as you turned on the box – and...

KeePass Password Safe is a free password manager utility program that I’ve written about before. One question that came about is "Okay, so you can save a password file locally. But how about backing it up to a server?" KeePass does in fact have the ability to do this via FTP. Using the latest version 2.06 beta, you open your database and click...

KeePass Password Safe is a free open source password manager for Windows. If you happen to be using something other than Windows there are contributed versions for PocketPC, Smart devices, Linux, Mac OS X, Blackberry and others. One very cool feature of this app is the ability to use custom icons from any image to represent entries. Being that images are stored...

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