The eReader Price War
In a tit-for-tat move, Amazon just lowered the price for their Kindle 2 ebook reader below Barnes & Nobles’ low-end Nook. You can now get a Kindle 2 with 3G and WiFi for only $189. That’s a discount of $60 and it is also $10 below the compatible Nook.
So, is it time to buy?
Get rid of that thumb drive!
Posted by jrowley in Organization on June 12, 2010
A month or two ago, I got tired of carrying around a USB thumb drive wherever I went. It used to keep my work docs on it so I can work on things from home or wherever I went. The problem was when I would occasionally forget it – usually by leaving it plugged into either my home or work computer.
So, how do you have access to your files without a thumb drive? One word: Dropbox
Protect yourself from getting infected while browsing
Keeping track of your complex passwords
Posted by jrowley in Organization, security on May 31, 2010
In our previous post, we mentioned using complex passwords for your online accounts to enhance your security. Even better is to use a generated password per account. How many of your accounts (facebook, myspace, email, etc) all use the same password? If someone can guess that, they literally have the keys to your kingdom.
So, having a hard to remember password is all well and good, but it does nothing if you can’t remember all of them. And who can? I have a hard enough time remembering what I had for lunch today, much less a few dozen passwords. So, what do we do?
Secure your online bank account
In this day and age of spyware, malware, and viruses, simply visiting your online bank account is a risky venture. If you use reputable anti-virus software, your risk is lower, but anti-virus is only as good as the latest updates. A brand new spyware software package can exist for days before being added to the anti-virus databases.