CNN has an article on how the US enabled the recent Chinese hacking of Gmail via a backdoor created for US government searches. So how can you protect your email from hackers, corporations, and governments? Easy. Encrypt it. Here’s how to do it for free:
- Download Mozilla’s Thunderbird and use it as your email client. [...]
Category Archives: Internet
Secure Your Email and Files
Monday, January 25, 2010
Taking on Google
Monday, December 28, 2009
There was an excellent NYTimes Op-Ed article on the massive problem Google has become: Search, But You May Not Find. It’s about time something like this was published in the mainstream media. Never before in history has one company controled the viability of so many others. Google’s moto was “Don’t do evil”. They’ve become nearly [...]
Cool Bookmarklets
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Here are two links to very cool bookmarklets:
Links on Page & Google Results Bookmarklet
And a video on the later:
Enjoy!
Canonical Link Tag & Duplicate Content
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
As hard as it is for me to believe, most people don’t know what a browser is. (It’s the software you use to interact with the web…Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc.) So, even less are going to know what “duplicate content” or the “cononical link tag” is. However, this is a very important topic [...]
Nothing is Free
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
There’s a lot of talk these days about “free” being the new business model, especially in the online world. But there’s actually nothing free about free. Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine says $0.00 is the future of business. As an example he writes, “Virtually everything Google does is free to consumers, from Gmail to Picasa [...]
Sticking It to United
Monday, July 13, 2009
For anyone who hasn’t seen this yet, it’s awesome:
You can find the background story here.
How to Move a Wordpress Blog
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Having your own blog is easy, especially if you use a free blog platform like Wordpress. Before I get into moving your Wordpress blog though, in case any of you don’t know how to create one in the first place, here are the quick and easy instructions:
1. Get yourself a domain name (register one at [...]
Domains, Hosts, and Shopping Carts
Thursday, June 11, 2009
I’ve been very busy recently migrating an e-commerce site to a new shopping cart and host, so I thought I’d post a few recommendations related to hosting, shopping carts, and domains. If you want to have a website, you’ll need a domain (www.site.com), a “host” to place your site’s content on, and if you want [...]
It Makes Me Sad
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
I work on the web for a living, and am not the first to notice a sad trend. Less people are developing their own websites or writing on their own blogs. They’re using social networking sites like Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter. You might not lose any sleep over that bitchy chick hanging out on Facebook [...]
