If you find your password in this list, or something close to it, change your password immediately! Make sure you have symbols, special characters, and longer than 8 characters. Below is the link to see the top 25 passwords of the year.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/25-worst-passwords-2011-revealed-202955980.html
In all my years, yes, I sound like an old man, but it is true, I have never encountered a bad piece of Cisco equipment, until today.
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If you’re a frequent world traveler, you may want to consider purchasing a phone with global capabilities. This will allow you to stay in touch with friends, family, and work. So if you’re not committed to a wireless carrier and want to check out a few different options, check out the link below. And if you are tied to a carrier, head over to their website and see what they have. Unfortunately Verizon Wireless doesn’t have the most impressive line of global phones, such as their iPhone, but they are making progress.
http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones-for-globe-trotters?tag=mncol;txt
Obviously this is old news now, but still worth posting about. I thought it was cool his resignation letter was published.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20096897-37/text-of-resignation-letter-from-steve-jobs/
Cisco is finally seeing the light when it comes to VPN support for Android’s. You may wonder why you would want VPN access from your Android device. Having VPN access from a mobile device means you can access basically access any company resource remotely (like a privately hosted Citrix environment, Windows Active Directory resources, Remote Desktop, VNC, etc). This is very handy for the typical network/system administrator or road-warrior.
So how do you get started?
Watching this Top 5 video on cnet.com today made me laugh out loud! I laughed because it’s true. You need to be conscious of your online postings, both manual and automatic. Watch and learn!
The Japanese never cease to amaze me with their toilet obsession and technology. Here’s another example of their latest creations. Will I see it the next time I go back to Japan? Who knows!?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20032286-1.html
In the age of high-tech mobile devices bringing everything to you from streaming video, to email, to Angry Birds, and so on from the touch of your finger tips, we still sometimes have to rely on “ol’ fashioned” desk-top style hardware. Sometimes you need a large monitor, more processing power, or just that full QWERTY physical keyboard. Let’s no forget printers! Yes, people still do print from time to time, even in this age of soft-copies and electronic forms. So what do you do when you’re on the road and need to print something (lets say to your office) from your mobile device and you just don’t have the time/means to email it? You need a cloud printing solution, and you want it to be printer-model agnostic.
OnLive, a cloud-based gaming system that connects through your broadband internet, recently released a gaming console. Up until then, you connected to their cloud from a PC. I am able to output the video to my 46″ LCD TV, but it was a pain to set up the laptop, plug in the video cable, the audio cable, AC power supply, network cable, keyboard, and mouse. Then just using the keyboard itself was a pain, because only certain keys are “mapped” to perform certain functions.
By default, Facebook uses a non-secure login (http). You can though, enable secure login via https. Most web email platforms, including your bank website, email, 401k retirement, etc., all use https logins. So why not protect yourself on Facebook the same way? You already lock down your account to share information with Friends Only (don’t you?!) so why not enable https too. Here’s how: