Backup To The Cloud

My first rule of computing is; “If you don’t have at least two copies of a file (the original and a backup) you may not have that file for long.” The second rule is; ” The best backup of your data is the one you have.”

CloudPrint

CloudPrint is a new service from Google that enables you to print to your printer at home or work from anywhere. Right now it only works on Windows computers but soon it will work on Macs and Linux.

What is RSS?

RSS is a family of web formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardized format. 

Getting The Most From The SIG

Getting the most from the SIG Since many of the presentations are video please don’t interrupt during presentation but by all means ask questions after the videos. That is most important!

Online Tax Preparation

You can Prepare your tax returns with online services. They are all very similar. They use an interview process just like a tax properer would do if you visited them at their office. Here’s a little secret. It is exactly the same procedure.

Chrome Notebook

Google has a started a pilot program with the new CR-48 notebook computer.

Taming Your Inbox

Email is suppose to be tool to make your life easier not harder. Somehow that just doesn’t seem to be the case. Someone ask you, “Did you get my email?” You say, “What email? My Inbox is such a disaster I don’t know if I got it or not.”

Secure Surfing

Who uses public available WiFi hotspots? What is HTTPS and TSL ? One way to crack sites using HTTPS is guessing passwords, so use strong passwords. What is broken on secure sites? Unencrypted session cookies. A hacker using a packet sniffing program can capture those unencrypted session cookies.

11/08/10

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10/11/10

This month we  learned how to use Google applications in many different ways, many that you can’t imagine. Share photos via email, Google Buzz, Blogger and Twitter with Picasa Web. In Picasa Web choose the photo you wish to embed. On the right side click any of the icons next to the words “Post on:”….

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