How to Crack Passwords!
Or why you should stop using them… Ok. I admit – I lied. I’m not going to tell you how to crack passwords – I do have scruples! But you should stop using them – read on of you want to know why.
Computing related ideas and musings from the latest technologies to health implications for the IT addict.
Or why you should stop using them… Ok. I admit – I lied. I’m not going to tell you how to crack passwords – I do have scruples! But you should stop using them – read on of you want to know why.
Yes folks, it’s true. As you sit at the keyboard, slogging away at all those important tasks, your computer is quietly killing you off. If you don’t want to go the way of the Dodo or crumble to dust like the Sphinx, read on…
Recent TV news articles, have prompted me to help you put out the fire – and stop criminals holding you to ransom – for large sums of money.
I was getting rather tired of hearing from iPhone fans the other day, so just wondered what the rest of the world thought of iPhones…
Years ago, my desktop used to look like a war zone! I had every conceivable icon, shortcut and document ‘machine gunned’ all over the place – it was a sort of organised chaos. Then came the ‘transparency’ craze, which still appears to be prominent – if film evidence is anything to go by, where police ‘techs’ […]
My Move From Microsoft to Google I’ve been more than a decade on the Microsoft platform, both as an end-user and technical support guru. But over the last year, I have been looking at cloud computing in-depth, keeping a weather eye on what is and isn’t good about the services on offer. And I have […]
Yep, it’s a PC.
Just came across Pxlr the other day – working on a machine without Photoshop or The Gimp – and thought I was done for! But no! This online tool came to my rescue – and very useful it is too: supporting layers, opacity, scaling including a full range of selection and cut and crop […]
A long time Synergy user, I recently came across “Mouse Without Borders” – and I have to say I’m very impressed. Basically it is software that shares a single keyboard and mouse, between two (or more) physical computer screens. Don’t know where I’d be without it!
After a hard day in the office, just before closing the ‘shop’ for the day, I took a look at my new office wattage monitor thingy. 1.8Kw YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING! I screamed at myself, feeling absurdly guilty for living. Then I realised it was the backups causing 20 odd hard disks to […]