Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
As an owner of a small business it is always surprising to me to find out when speaking with other small business owners about how unaware they are of some of the free and cheap tools available out there to make their business better. In this post, I will list (in no ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2011
Being that none of the banks I currently use support remote deposit (taking photos of checks and uploading them instead of bringing the physical checks in), I was very interested to hear that PayPal finally added check deposit ability to their Android app. This post covers my experiences with that ...
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
While I had been online for a long time, over the years I gravitated to use Amazon.com for most of my online shopping. While I do not necessarily like big companies, in this case a lot of what Amazon brings to the consumer is something all online companies should learn ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
This information is quite old and I am not sure if it is still valid. However, the vendor never responded to what I sent them even with assistance of CERT. This was assigned VU#707817 in 2006.
- -------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Two vulnerabilities in SpectorSoft products VU#707817
Date: Mon, 20 Nov ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Just some short notes on running Mac OS X under Ubuntu 10:
1. Get a VMware image for Mac OS X, an ISO or make a copy of an existing Mac OS installation into VMWare or VirtualBox disk image.
2. Create a new VirtualBox 4 VM as follows:
OS Type: Mac OS X ...
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Friday, March 25th, 2011
A recent breach at a SSL Certificate Authority (Comodo) had nine fake SSL certificate issued as a result for sites like Gmail, Yahoo, etc. [details here at the EFF]. While desktop browsers issued updates, the overlooked issue here is mobile. Browsers on mobile devices are usually in firmware, and issuing ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
(followup to part I)
I have been using Virgin Mobile USA's Samsung Intercept for about 2 months now. Good things I have found:
Cheap pricing - paying a little less than $80/mo for two phones, with 1,200 minutes each, and unlimited texting/web
Android 2.1 with access to Android Market
Pretty much the same coverage ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Techcrunch posted a story earlier about an open letter from a company called VeriFone which is a traditional credit card processor. They apparently claim to have discovered a security vulnerability in a competitor's product, Square. The vulnerability is that the competitor's hardware credit card reader does not encrypt data between ...
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Sunday, February 13th, 2011
I have been a loyal user of Palm's PalmOS devices since their earlier days. I have gone through the full gamut of Handspring and later Palm devices such as the Treo 300, 600, all the way to the latest WebOS and the Palm Pre. I have also been a SprintPCS ...
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
My brother just released version 0.7 of his free and easy to use porfolio tracker called "Frano":
The application is located at http://frano.carelessmusings.com and is a transaction based portfolio tracker similar to yahoo/google/morningstar portfolios. If you have an investment portfolio and you want to be able to take a ...
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