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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, such as overloaded servers, crashed servers, faulty network connections, and other problems. [...]
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 privacy, being too sheltering, or being a “helicopter parent,” as the derogatory phrase [...]
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 second thing to understand is that securing your network has to take into [...]
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 is this latest tech gizmo and why is everybody talking about it? [...]
What Can You Get in Bluetooth Devices? Information technology kind of hit a jackpot with Bluetooth. For once, we have an extremely useful telecommunications protocol which became an open standard, and to this day enjoys an open existence while not being owned by any company in particular. That is, the Bluetooth special-interest-group is actually [...]
