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“The lessons I learnt from my iPhone mugging”

Not mine, as I don’t use an iPhone, but a very important lesson to learn (specially from other people’s experiences).

Benjamin Cohen, form Channel 4 wrote about his recent experience when he had his iPhone stolen only minutes away from his home at 10:20 in the morning.

Should you be worried? Yes.

Read his article here: The lessons I learnt from my iPhone mugging | Benjamin Cohen on Technology.

O2 LTE Test At the O2, London – YouTube

The question is why can’t your home/office broadband be as quick as the next generation mobile Internet?

O2 LTE Test At the O2, London – YouTube.

Unroll.Me – Welcome to a cleaner inbox

I just came across a site that I always hoped it existed. Unroll.Me will help you to get rid of those pesky mailing lists that fill your inbox with unwanted email.

The site was investigated by Andi Bayo from Wired UK and found that the service is legitimate and trustworthy.

So, go ahead. Get rid of those unwanted emails now, painlessly.

Unroll.Me – Welcome to a cleaner inbox.

Online Data Backup & Storage – CrashPlan – Backup Software, Disaster Recovery

Well, don’t tell me I didn’t tell you so. Backup is the most important part of owning a computer. Every day we have calls from customers that have been attacked by Trojans, people with failed hard drives, lost/stolen laptops, mobile phones, etc.

There is no excuse for not having a proper backup procedure in place.

If nothing else, please contact us for a review of your backup/disaster recovery processes. At least signup for a service like CrashPlan and duplicate your date for free.

Online Data Backup & Storage – CrashPlan – Backup Software, Disaster Recovery.

Sending big files the easy way – WeTransfer

A new useful service that may come in handy for a lot of you.

It’s called WeTransfer and works in the same principle as the old favourite YouSendIt.

The service will send a link to the recipient with a link to the file (up to 2 GB) to be downloaded at the other end.

Sending big files the easy way – WeTransfer.

It’s a big, bad world

ZD Net is reporting a new exploit being found in the wild. In this post they show how a link posted on a YouTube video leads to an application which install itself on the phone and launches advertisements as well as spyware and bots.

You have been advised.

Brace yourselves!

Well, for quite a while I’ve been telling everyone about the dangers of space storms.

Today, a server lost its network card. Nothing else, just the network card.

We expect loads more unexpected and unexplainable faults to occur in the next 10 days or so.

The problem is that in order to avoid any problems, you must wear a tin foil hat. Any takers?

Freudian Slip

Thanks to Adrian Bedloe, of James Anderson for pointing out a spelling mistake on the post below.

Instead of “shift your fingers” …….. (you can imagine the error, I’m sure).

I wish I could blame it on the cut and paste of the article, but I don’t think I’d get away with it.

I don’t want to tell you “I told you so”, but….

TalkTalk and Tiscali have been threatened with fines for billing customers for services that had been cancelled.

BBC News – Telecom firms threatened with fines for bogus bills.

Shift Your Fingers One Key to the Right for Easy-to-Remember but Awesome Passwords

The folks at LifeHacker (a blog I read everyday), have a simple tip for those who are forever looking for secure passwords.

It simply suggests that you work on a passphrase and then simply shift your fingers one key to the right or left while typing the password.

The full article can be found at the link below.

Shift Your Fingers One Key to the Right for Easy-to-Remember but Awesome Passwords.