• The Rise of Navigation Systems

    The Rise of Navigation Systems
     
    Remember paper maps? You’d take them out of the glove compartment or boot, unfold them, flip them around, and it would take you some ten minutes to find where you are on the map, before you could find where you were going. Later map books were a small improvement, but really [...]

  • The Beginner’s Guide To Choosing a PDA

    The Beginner’s Guide To Choosing a PDA
     
    For everyone thinking of buying their first PDA, this guide’s for you! A gentle introduction to these devices should be all you need. PDAs aren’t like other computers – they’re compact, user-friendly, fast, featureful, and even fun!
     
    The first thing you have to do is figure out what you want [...]

  • How Your Web Browsing Habits Impact Your Computer’s Security

    How Your Web Browsing Habits Impact Your Computer’s Security
     
    No matter if you’re a home user, running a small business, or adminning for a 10,000-head corporation, web browsing will be the weak spot in your computer system’s defense. Because the number one path of infection for malware continues to be the web browser. These tips will [...]

  • Getting To Know GPS Technology

    Getting To Know GPS Technology
     
    Once upon a time, this would have sounded like a science-fiction plot: We’re going to put an array of machines up in space orbiting the Earth, and use them to navigate the globe. Such audacity would only have been found in a Jules Verne novel.
     
    But today, the Global Positioning System (GPS) [...]

  • Digital Gadget Gift Ideas For Big Kids

    Digital Gadget Gift Ideas For Big Kids
     
    When most parents think gadgets for kids, they tend to think like a little kid… which means video games. While it’s true that younger children (age range 5 to 12 years) will be impressed by video games, older kids entering their ‘tween and teen years expect something more. For [...]

An Introduction to Network Monitoring

An Introduction to Network Monitoring

An Introduction to Network Monitoring   There's a difference between an intrusion detection system monitor and a network monitor. While an intrusion detection system is responsible for
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Why You Should Take Tracking Your Loved Ones Seriously

Why You Should Take Tracking Your Loved Ones Seriously

Why You Should Take Tracking Your Loved Ones Seriously   The newest GPS technology and tracking devices has found a new purpose beyond tracking vehicles, to tracking
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Concepts of Network Security

Concepts of Network Security

Concepts of Network Security   The first thing to understand about network security is that it's all about preventing unauthorized users from accessing a network. This is
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What is a Torrent?

What is a Torrent?

What is a Torrent?   You might be hearing it batted around on the web here and there, and even in other media like newspaper or TV:
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  • Feature Articles

  • Why You Should Take Tracking Your Loved Ones Seriously

    Why You Should Take Tracking Your Loved Ones Seriously

    Why You Should Take Tracking Your Loved Ones Seriously   The newest GPS technology and tracking devices has found a new purpose beyond tracking vehicles, to tracking people. Now, since this is still a new idea, one might be concerned about invading

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  • Time Management Tips for your holiday break

    Time Management Tips for your holiday break

    Time Management Tips   In our increasingly busy society, we find ourselves barely able to fit everything we want to do into a day. If you feel like your days are slipping by without getting enough done, here are some time management

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  • Concepts of Network Security

    Concepts of Network Security

    Concepts of Network Security   The first thing to understand about network security is that it's all about preventing unauthorized users from accessing a network. This is different from information security, which protects against things like automated malware such as viruses. The

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  • Reviews

  • The Beginner’s Guide To Choosing a PDA

    The Beginner’s Guide To Choosing a PDA

    The Beginner's Guide To Choosing a PDA   For everyone thinking of buying their first PDA, this guide's for you! A gentle introduction to these devices should be all you need. PDAs aren't like other computers - they're compact, user-friendly, fast, featureful,

    Jan 02, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Things You Can Do With Bluetooth Sunglasses

    Things You Can Do With Bluetooth Sunglasses

    Things You Can Do With Bluetooth Sunglasses   Let us not be shy about it: When you use Bluetooth-enabled sunglasses and eyewear devices, you are officially living in the science fiction era. It's no joke, you really have joined the era of

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  • What Accessories Are Available For a PDA?

    What Accessories Are Available For a PDA?

    What Accessories Are Available For a PDA?   In light of the explosion in PDA's popularity in the past decade, it's kind of surprising how many people are still running around with just the bare unit. They might keep the AC adapter/charger

    Dec 14, 2009 | 2 comments | View Post

  • Internetz

  • Christmas Projects – Simple Indoor Home Improvements Anyone Can Do

    Christmas Projects – Simple Indoor Home Improvements Anyone Can Do

    Christmas Projects! Simple Indoor Home Improvements Anyone Can Do   Are you a klutz with ten left thumbs? Are you an official weapon of mass destruction whenever you wield a hammer? Are there more than three self-inflicted holes on your person right

    Dec 14, 2009 | 2 comments | View Post

  • Concepts of Network Security

    Concepts of Network Security

    Concepts of Network Security   The first thing to understand about network security is that it's all about preventing unauthorized users from accessing a network. This is different from information security, which protects against things like automated malware such as viruses. The

    Dec 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

  • What is a Torrent?

    What is a Torrent?

    What is a Torrent?   You might be hearing it batted around on the web here and there, and even in other media like newspaper or TV: "Download the Torrent," "Seed a Torrent," "Visit our Torrent-tracker," and so on. So, just what

    Dec 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Retro

  • Digital Gadget Gift Ideas For Big Kids

    Digital Gadget Gift Ideas For Big Kids

    Digital Gadget Gift Ideas For Big Kids   When most parents think gadgets for kids, they tend to think like a little kid... which means video games. While it's true that younger children (age range 5 to 12 years) will be impressed

    Jan 02, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Things You Can Do With Bluetooth Sunglasses

    Things You Can Do With Bluetooth Sunglasses

    Things You Can Do With Bluetooth Sunglasses   Let us not be shy about it: When you use Bluetooth-enabled sunglasses and eyewear devices, you are officially living in the science fiction era. It's no joke, you really have joined the era of

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  • Christmas Shopper Poll – Favorite Gadgets…

    Christmas Shopper Poll – Favorite Gadgets…

    Christmas Shopper Poll - The Favorite Gadgets...   In our latest popularity poll, we didn't ask what the most useful gadgets were. Or the highest quality, or the most expensive, or the cheapest. No, our sole metric was "How much do you just

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  • Security

  • How Your Web Browsing Habits Impact Your Computer’s Security

    How Your Web Browsing Habits Impact Your Computer’s Security

    How Your Web Browsing Habits Impact Your Computer's Security   No matter if you're a home user, running a small business, or adminning for a 10,000-head corporation, web browsing will be the weak spot in your computer system's defense. Because the number

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  • An Introduction to Network Monitoring

    An Introduction to Network Monitoring

    An Introduction to Network Monitoring   There's a difference between an intrusion detection system monitor and a network monitor. While an intrusion detection system is responsible for protecting the system from outside threats, a network monitor just watches for internal failure conditions,

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  • Concepts of Network Security

    Concepts of Network Security

    Concepts of Network Security   The first thing to understand about network security is that it's all about preventing unauthorized users from accessing a network. This is different from information security, which protects against things like automated malware such as viruses. The

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  • Other Recent Articles

  • A Field Guide to Batteries

    A Field Guide to Batteries

    A Field Guide to Batteries
     
    The first battery was the Baghdad Battery, a simple clay pot with a copper sheet inside which is wrapped around an iron rod. They were discovered in 1936 in the village of Khuyut Rabbou’a, near Baghdad, Iraq, and have been dated to between 250 BC and AD 224. Ancients would have [...]

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  • Your First Home Office Network

    Your First Home Office Network

    Your First Home Office Network
     
    “Telecommuting” – it’s the only way to fly! Being able to work from home will change how you think about work. And setting up a home network is easier now than ever. Gone are the days when you had to study wheel vs. ring vs. serial diagrams – network capable devices [...]

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  • The World Runs On Telemetry

    The World Runs On Telemetry

    The World Runs On Telemetry
     
    “Telemetry” is a word you don’t often hear slung around. It’s also one of those words you hear thrown around by high-tech types, that makes novices put up a defensive palm and back away – “Sorry, I don’t speak computerese!” So what is it, and why might it be the most [...]

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