Some cretin recently cloned our debit card, in reflection of rising UK and international rates of card fraud despite technological countermeasures like "chip and pin".
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Having spent the better part of two half days trying to achieve the impossible, I wish to recount an exercise in wireless frustration. The challenge was to hook up an iMac G4 (Flat Panel) with no Airport Card, located in the attic room, to my home LAN (and thus to the Internet). One purpose of this machine was to serve as a screen for streamed video that could be watched while using the exercise cycle. A TV had provided such distraction, but that had broke. To cement the challenge, the problem should be solved using equipment already to hand i.e. at no additional cost.
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Make Gmail Notifier use a secure HTTPS connection when checking your inbox: hold down Command and Option keys while clicking Preferences in the Notifier menu and enter "SecureAlways" (without quotes) for Key and "1" for Value, then Set before quitting and re-launching (via maxoshints.com).
I've been hearing about OpenDNS a lot lately: a solution for slow Xtra connections; Stamatiou calls it über; Lifehacker named it one of the best apps of 2006. Not only faster, but safer (auto-corrects common URL misspellings) and smart (warns against phishing), it's simple to use—just tell your broadband modem the IP addresses of the OpenDNS nameservers.
Houston, we have a problem. One of the biggest issues facing a Mac user making the transition to Pocket PC is the lack of software to synchronise secure data between the handheld device and a desktop Mac. Until such time as a developer addresses this market opportunity and creates a sync solution, here's a tip for transferring data exported from PasswordWallet for Mac and securing it on the Pocket PC.
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Palm or Windows Mobile? I've been firmly in the Palm camp to date, but have just acquired a Pocket PC together with Missing Sync for Windows Mobile. This is not a review of the Dell Axim X50v, but rather a functional comparison with my Palm T3 from the point-of-view of a Mac user. How did a Palm user making a trial transition to Pocket PC fair when pairing the device with Mac OS X? For given applications and functionality, does Palm or Pocket PC have the winning edge? Will he or won't he become a "switcher"? First impressions count, so I decided to document my experiences during the first 48 hours with a Pocket PC. There will be plenty to revisit in subsequent bloggings...
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