Talking about tech
April 4th, 2011 by David Bradley >> No Comments
Talking tech again, David Bradley
- Massive security breach compromises customer emails – If you use any of these companies your email me have been leaked in a massive security breach at online marketing company Epislon: Kroger, TiVo, US Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, Citi, Home Shopping Network (HSN), Ameriprise Financial, LL Bean Visa Card, The College Board, Disney Destinations. Another reason never to use your "primary" email address for shopping or any ecommerce activity.
- World Backup Day 2011 – March 31st – It's World Backup Day. A day of rembrance for lost data files. Check your backups now use DropBox, Gladinet, SyncBackPro whatever, but backup now.
- Switch off IE9′s awful blurry, rasterized, anti-aliased, smoothed fonts – IE9 has its own way of smoothing fonts, which isn't part of the standard Win7 font smoothing. Here's a hack to disable it and get back nice sharp fonts you can actually read without squinting at your PC. (I don't care whether this doesn't affect Mac users).
- Man gets lead on whereabouts of his stolen laptop using his Dropbox account – Ryan believes he has a lead on who stole his laptop thanks to the Dropbox filesharing program that was installed on his computer. Turns out his laptop could be just up the street from him right now. But what does he do with the IP address he got from Dropbox?
- Dropbox Forms: Receive files from your web site to your dropbox! – Create a form on almost any platform for your visitors to fill in. Whether you use Frontpage or Facebook, we've got you covered regardless of skill level. Every platform is just one copy/paste away from your Dropbox.
- Bye-bye BIOS, hello UEFI – Learn how UEFI will replace your PC’s BIOS

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