Most modern computer users understand that the internet is a dangerous place. While the rough-and-tumble “wild west” days of the late 90s and early 00s are long gone, the internet still offers many opportunities for someone to have their life ruined. From the loss of privacy via Facebook to significant financial problems due to bank [...]
October 31, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
In the tech industry today, “cloud” is the buzzword that is taking the market by storm. While many computer users have learned exactly how beneficial cloud computing can be, it is still a relatively new field in the smartphone niche. Since smartphones are basically like small computers, it’s no stretch to think that smartphone users [...]
June 24, 2012 | 1 comment | View Post
We didn’t see this one coming. About 6.5 million passwords belonging to LinkedIn have been leaked. And almost 60% of the passwords have been cracked already. The passwords on LinkedIn weren’t salted apparently, which made it pretty easy for the hackers to crack them. The company remained skeptical initially, but it finally came out in [...]
June 9, 2012 | 4 comments | View Post
Nokia sent me the Lumia 800 for trial last month and I got to play around with it a little. Here’s my short review of the device. The phone arrived in a gorgeous Nokia-esque box as expected. Unboxing the device revealed the phone, some documents, a silicone case for the smartphone, the USB cable, earphones [...]
May 7, 2012 | 7 comments | View Post
Numerous sources mention that the next Galaxy device will be known as the Galaxy S III, while some sources think otherwise. To make things more inconclusive, Samsung has been rather silent about the device to keep the buzz going till May 3. But the company might have just given it away on its own with [...]
April 24, 2012 | 1 comment | View Post
The desktop app of SkyDrive is here. Microsoft has finally launched a SkyDrive app for Mac OS X Lion and Windows desktops. The app was made available some hours ago and it seems to work flawlessly on both Windows and Mac computers. The app is very similar to DropBox as all the files are contained [...]
April 24, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Don’t have a SkyDrive account yet? Maybe it’s time to get one because it is being rumored that Microsoft is going to change the scheme of things with SkyDrive. It is believed that the company will limit free storage to 7GB from 25GB. As for the existing users, there’s no need to worry as your [...]
April 23, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
If you’re a Windows Phone user, you would know the advantage and benefits of the cool SkyDrive app. Native integration aside, Windows Phone users are offered 25GB of free storage which is a lot given how other competitors offer merely 5GB of free storage. This cool app has now been updated to version 2.0 which [...]
April 23, 2012 | 2 comments | View Post
An Android developer has willingly or unwillingly revealed Google Drive for Android on a Galaxy Nexus. The new Google service which is making enough noise already is being kept a secret by Google as it doesn’t want to give away the big surprise (which is out in the open now). The developer while showing a [...]
April 23, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post