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If you travel on behalf of your organization, you likely bring along a laptop so you can stay productive while you’re away. And because many airports, hotels, and coffee shops are now equipped with so-called hotspots access points that let you surf the Web using a wireless Internet connection you probably take advantage of these opportunities to check your email, log in to your nonprofit’s intranet, and generally find out what’s going on back at the office.
But while using a public hotspot to surf the Internet can help you get work done from the road, it can also potentially compromise your organization’s privacy. Read More»
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This will cycle Aero Glass’s color over a period of time. I have my colors cycling right now, and dwm.exe’s CPU usage is only hovering at 1-3%, up from 0-1%.
If you have a laptop, and noticed that when transparency shuts off, it looks like crap, you can also set this to go to a different color than normal when on battery…..Or even set it up so that the color is based on your battery life. (The screenshot doesn’t show it, but I added another checkbox for this option.) Read More»
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Remote File Lock protects your most valuable computer files from theft and loss by enabling you to “lock” them remotely from another computer.
If your computer is then lost or stolen, you can sign in to the TrendSecure.com website and remotely “lock” your protected files. At that point, your protected files are locked tight, ensuring that your private data stays private. Read More»
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ARLINGTON, Va.–Simply booting up a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop can tell people sniffing wireless network traffic a lot about your computer and about you. Soon after a computer powers up, it starts looking for wireless networks and network services. Even if the wireless hardware is then shut-off, a snoop may already have caught interesting data.
Much more information can be plucked out of the air if the computer is connected to an access point, in particular an access point without security. “You’re leaking all kinds of information that an attacker can use,” David Maynor, chief technology officer at Errata Security, said Thursday in a presentation at the Black Hat DC event here. “If the government was taking this information from you, people would be up in arms. Yet you’re leaking this voluntarily using your laptop at the airport.” Read More»
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February 16, 2007 by
Jason
Removing the text below an icon on your desktop has been a classic Windows tweak for years. In Windows Vista, the same old tweak works.
1. Right click on the icon and select Rename.
2. Then hold down the ALT key and type in 255 on your right keypad. If you are on a laptop turn on numlock and use the K and I keys to enter in 255. This is the code for a space.
3. Hit Enter when you are done.
If you want to remove the text from multiple icons then make sure that you do ALT + 255 a different number of times for each icon.
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February 15, 2007 by
Jason If you take your Wi-Fi enabled laptop with you on your travels then, like me, you are always on the lookout for a free Hotspot hook-up when hanging around at airports, hotels or cafes. If you do your homework and visit sites like free-hotspot. Before you go you should be able to find one. However, be on your guard if you are casually trawling for a free connection, you could be opening up your PC and its contents to a hacker.
Here’s how it works. A crook with a Wi-Fi laptop sets up shop by hanging around a legitimate hotspot. Their PC is logged on to the web and set up for Internet Connection Sharing. Along comes our weary traveller and the Wi-Fi monitor on their PC flags up the bogus connection as open and available. They think it is Christmas, click on it to log on and bingo, the two PCs are linked by an ‘ad hoc’ or peer-to-peer connection and the data on the victim’s laptop is exposed.
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February 06, 2007 by
Jason Windows Vista’s blinking cursor can be razor thin, and sometimes it can be very hard to find, especially if you’re using a laptop. But it’s easy to make the cursor thicker–pretty much as thick as you want. Select Control Panel–>Ease of Access–>Optimize visual display. Scroll toward the bottom of the screen until you come to “Make things on the screen easier to see,” as shown in the nearby figure.
In the box next to “Set the thickness of the blinking cursor,” select a number. The larger the number, the fatter the cursor. You’ll see a preview of the cursor next to the box. Click Save. The cursor throughout Windows Vista will now be fatter and easier to see.
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February 03, 2007 by
Jason Windows XP and Office XP use Product Activation to reduce piracy.
On installation (of non corporate editions) they create a snapshot of the PC’s hardware which covers:
Boot disk volume serial number
Network adaptor MAC address
CD-ROM drive ID data
Graphics card ID data
IDE adaptor ID data
SCSI adaptor ID data
Hard disk ID data
Processor Model and serial number
Amount of RAM
Dockable (laptop) or not (desktop)
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January 26, 2007 by
Jason 
In anticipation of the 802.11n Wi-Fi specification being finalised later this year chipmaker Intel has started shipping ‘Next-Gen Wireless-N chips to laptop makers, including Acer, Gateway and Toshiba. The first products are expected to go on sale in the US in the next few weeks. Key benefits include much faster data transfer rates, better range and lower power consumption, though the increase in speed is not going to be much use until products like 802.11n routers and access points become available, and that’s unlikely to happen until the Autumn. In the meantime Wireless-N equipped laptops will still be able to connect to existing 802.11b and 11g networks
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