A few years back I did a demonstration at KIPCUG on login security, and how I could capture someone’s login credentials using a Firefox plugin called Firesheep. In the demonstration I captured a Facebook users credentials and logged into their account. This was possible at the time because Facebook was not using any encryption in…
Tag: Internet
5G Is Coming To Your Home
Can 5G cell service replace your home Internet from Spectrum or Comcast? In the last year cable companies have lost customers or at least have not gotten any new customers. This maybe partly due to 5G cell networks. These networks are fast enough to watch 4K HD video. Eventually these networks could give us up…
Should Web Content Be Regulated?
Should content on websites be regulated by the government or is there another solution?
My Google Fiber
On the 27th and 28th of June the Google Fiber technicians came to do my installation. It took to days to do because the the equipment out front had to be replace first. On the second day the tech brought it into the house. Equipment Review My thoughts after having the service for one day: the…
Use an Alternate DNS
Recently my Spectrum Internet became extremely unreliable. The WiFi seemed to be working and the modem seemed to be connecting. The only thing that worked was restarting the modem every hour. Finally when it happened again I deployed a Ping Test of Google (ping google.com). This to said there was no connection. I did a new Ping…
Google Drives: More Space, Lower Price
Google Drive is an online storage service and much more. Google now gives you 15 gigabytes of cloud storage free and the option to purchase huge amounts of data for a very low price. At only $23.88 per year for 100 gigabytes you can’t afford not to grab this great resource. As well as uploading…
Microsoft In The Cloud
Like Google, Microsoft has made a major investment in web applications. Beyond “Outlook” its web-mail client they now have “Office” apps on the web. Office 365 is the online version of “MS Office”. 365 has all of the applications that enterprise users have grown to love including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office 365 also includes;…
Apps Offline
One difficult problem with living in the cloud is what do you do when you when you have no Internet connection. Many of the application today can be used offline. Gmail – You can use Gmail offline by using a Chrome app call “Gmail Offline” of course. This does not look like Gmail but more…
Cloud Print
If your living in the cloud how do you print? The answer is “Cloud Print”. “Cloud Print” from Google enables you to print from any computer or mobile device.
Everything In The Cloud
In the last 5 years there has been a movement to get you to move all of your tasks to the cloud or Internet. Today I will show how this works. No more loosing you data when your computer dies. Get your documents, email, calendar, notes, and messages everywhere. Do your work from home and…
Good-N-Free Meetup 