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New CloudReady – Build A Chromebook

CloudReady is an operating system built and maintained by Neverware. Based on Google’s open source Chromium OS, CloudReady uses web apps and cloud storage instead of traditional software and local storage. Neverware is a venture-backed technology company that provides a service to make old PCs and Macs run like new. In February 2015 the company…

Enigmail for Thunderbird

Enigmail is a data encryption and decryption extension for Mozilla Thunderbird and the SeaMonkey internet suite that provides OpenPGP public key e-mail encryption and signing. Enigmail works under Microsoft Windows, Unix-like, and Mac OS X operating systems. Its cryptographic functionality is handled by GNU Privacy Guard.

What is PGP?

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption program provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions and to increase the security of e-mail communications. Phil Zimmermann developed PGP in 1991.

CryptUp: Gmail Encryption in 60 Seconds

CryptUp is the simplest PGP application for Gmail. This application makes it extremely easy to create encrypted email within Gmail. There’s no need to understand how PGP works. CryptUp just works. CryptUp adds a new button in Gmail called SECURE COMPOSE. It lets you send encrypted emails to anyone. Just click on in, write your…

Encrypt Your Gmail With Mailvelope

Mailvelope is a free software for end-to-end encryption of email traffic inside of a web browser (Firefox or Chromium) that integrates itself into existing webmail applications (“email websites”). It can be used to encrypt and sign electronic messages, including attached files, without the use of a separate, native email client (like Thunderbird) using the OpenPGP…

Don’t Run As Administrator

As the sixth tip says, “Don’t run as Administrator”. Any program you run while using an admin account has those same privilegdes this includes malware. UAC (user access control) has limited the danger some but it is far better for you to not have those privilegdes at all. Of course you will not be able to…

Preventing Ransomeware

You must be diligent to prevent randsomeware or any other malware from get on your computer or network. Here are some important security tip: Your first line of defence is to keep your operating system up-to-date. If all of those computers in Europe had updated their operating systems those machines would never have gotten infected. Make…

What is WannaCry?

The world has gone paranoid since last months ransomeware attacks in Europe. Banks and Hospitals transactions have been shut-down do to a soficticated piece of malware called WannaCry. “WannaCry” is a software package when ran on a out-of-date Windows machine it encrypts all of the file on that computer or computer network. The only apparent solution is…

On Demand Internet TV

The most popular video services are totally on-demand. Their low cost and ease of use makes them ideal for the active watcher. Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 93 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series,…

Best TV Antennas

You can get local and major network programming absolutely free. That’s right you don’t need cable or satellite! Just like in the old-days all you need is an antenna. You don’t necessarily need a special antenna. What you might already have may work as well as anything. If your already have the old rabbit-ears or even…