I have experimented with productivity software and browser control apps, etc.
This is the most simple way to block sites you don’t want people to access on your machine including yourself. IE, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Navigate in My Computer to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and open a file called ‘hosts’.
If you are composing a technical document containing screenshots you will find the file size balloon very quickly. This makes it difficult to transmit via email and just wastes space on your hard drive.
There is a very simple way to compress the entire document without losing any of your details or pretty pictures, screenshots or diagrams.
Just a quick tutorial. The driver for my laptop suddenly crashed whether due to some sort of hack attack or just general Microsoftery. I thought that tethering my iPhone using WiFi might kick it back on since my laptop recognized wireless networks but just didn’t display them to be connected. I discovered something interesting and I thought I would share it.
All you really have to do is have a newer iOS version (my example uses 4.3.2), an iPhone cable (technically you can wirelessly connect to your phone as well but as mentioned my phone had no wireless at the time) and just switch on the setting.
I personally am sick of the government bullshit, the lies, the money passed between politicians and corporations. I’m sick of hearing about stories months after they occur and not being able to do anything about it. Government has grown out of control (particularly in the US, not as much so in Canada) and needs to be held accountable.
I have been digging into The Second Realm movement in the past few weeks compiling my notes on the various things I have found. Here are my impressions.
“The Second Realm” is a term used to describe a permanent autonomous zone that certain groups of Crypto-Anarchists, Anarcho-Capitalists, Agorists, hackers, etc. are trying to create. A place where full economic freedom can be achieved with no interaction with “The First Realm” (our current economy, government, corporations, etc.). They claim the reason is to circumvent the governments control over their everyday lives, to live and trade anonymously and build a better world free from the control of “The Man.”
Being in the IT world I occasionally have the need to get my way past a password for a workstation or whatnot, occasionally people forget their passwords, etc. For XP it was easy most of the time to just reboot, push F5 and load in safe mode. This would usually show the Administrator login and allow you to slip in behind the non password-protected master admin account. Then you could just reset the user’s password and login as them or do whatever you had to do through the administration account unnoticed.
This program is only the greatest note program ever devised. If you keep a thousand paper notes and notebooks and always have ideas you write down in the night, or if you just like to stay organized this program is for you. Evernote allows you to capture text, images, pdfs, voice, photographs, you can even … Read more
When it comes to tracking your financial statements I will be honest. It’s BORING (and I love accounting, weird I know). I used to make all my payments on time, double check everything but I didn’t really take too close of a look unless something was way out of whack.
I stumbled across an app on my iPhone called Mint. I had been looking for a way to get a better handle on my expenses and I have determined that this is the service to do that.
Social media is like a website, have it or die… But stop talking about it like you are some sort of internet guru because you have figured out what all 14 yr olds have. You guide the tech-illiterate through this ‘new’ (it’s not new, but the non-techies are just figuring it out) fad as if … Read more
I just found out today that you can ‘Recall’ unread emails that you have sent in error.
I made a mistake and needed to correct the official email before resending so I followed this tutorial.