I know Orb is nothing new, it really got a lot of press shortly after the Nintendo Wii was released because you could stream your video and music over the wifi to your TV via the Wii. Since then, Orb has made some improvements that really enhance the experience and make it more robust with Orb 2.0. In case you haven't heard of Orb, it's a solution to stream your media … [Read more...]
Power Manage PC Power Management
With Green Initiatives becoming the norms these days, lots of people are looking for elaborate ways to save electricity and reign in their energy-sucking computers. Looking at the numbers, we can see that just turning off something like a CRT monitor when it's not in use can save a lot of juice. There are quite a number of elaborate schemes and utilities (both hardware and … [Read more...]
KeePass – Forget about remembering all those passwords!
There is one basic premise to password security: The longer the better. Mix in upper-case and lower-case letters, some numbers, and some special characters (!, @, $, etc.) and you're talking about a secure password. Unfortunately, a secure password is usually not memorable. This leads to people writing it down somewhere or heaven-forbid taping it to the bottom of their … [Read more...]
Prevent the latest exploit in Adobe Acrobat, Disable JavaScript
If you haven't heard already, there is a buffer overflow attack in the wild that exploits the fully-patched and latest versions of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, 8.3 and 9.0. The exploit can come in the form of opening a malicious or poisoned PDF file. You can read more about the specifics of the attack and how it works from an article at The Register. To summarize the … [Read more...]
Clean up your Context Menu
The context menu (what pops up when you right-click) is one of the most popular items to clutter; a lot of programs will add their shortcuts or filetypes to the menu when they get installed. It's also a very under-used, convenient location that you could put your frequently used functions and shortcuts. This post should show you how to tame the context menu and make it work for … [Read more...]