Wow. . . As a technician and an author, from time to time a thought enters my head, or an article about some issue crosses my screen, and I feel the urge to write about it! The technician side of me realizes that for my author side to truly put…
Category: Computer Usage
Your Choice of Browser and Your Safety!
Oh the wonderful world of web browsers! Those handy yet somehow invisible pieces of software (ask 5 friends what browser they use to get online and maybe one or two will tell you without any hints) open up the entire world to us in more ways than we initially see…
What is a Screenshot and how do I take one?
Every now and then, you’ll be trying to get techsupport from a company’s website, only to be asked by that company’s tech, to provide them with a screenshot so that they can get a better idea of what you are talking about. Even Facebook, where this note appears, makes that…
Mobile Security – Take it Seriously!
No we haven’t been taken over by humanoid androids. Apples aren’t falling from trees. . . Ok, perhaps in someone’s orchard here in the Okanagan they are. . . Blackberries will only stain your hand if they are the organic type, and you can still see through windows, unless they…
Privacy Rant!
We live in a world getting increasingly up in arms over the strangest perceptions of privacy I’ve ever seen! In the offline world, people get upset over cameras being put up in parks and intersections. Um. . . If you’re out for a stroll or driving somewhere, you are ALREADY…
My Computer’s Worst Enemy! and no, it’s not me. . .
Yes, you read that right, my computer has enemies. No, they aren’t really made of malware, although malware is a threat. Mostly malware is a threat to me and my content stored on the computer. No, I am not my computer’s worst enemy, although I know some people who are…
Laptop Security on the go
He’s watching you. He’s tracking you! No he didn’t put anything on your laptop to enable tracking, although if you’d added him to your friends list on Facebook he might have convinced you to install such a tool. No, he has other tools up his sleeve and he’s tracked you…
Surfing on the Go
(sing song) “Everybody loves surfin’, surfin world wide web. . . “(nod to Surfin USA) and again,(to the tune of “its a small world after all, verse only”) “From a netbook small to a laptop tall, from an ipod Touch to a Nexus phone, just one thing is for sure,…
Mobile Safety and Security On and Offline – Introduction
So we’ve spent the past three months talking about safety and security from the vantage point of someone sitting behind a desk,active online via their stationary desktop computer. But what about those who are on the road, or those who use smartphones? What about the person who doesn’t own a…
Safe Surfing! Introduction: Your Email
Safe-surfing! Kind of sounds like “safe-sex”! In today’s electronic landscape, one beg’s the question, is there such a thing??? It is with great relief that I announce today, that YES! There is such a thing as safe-surfing! Safe-surfing involves several key behaviours and understandings. The first and perhaps both the…
