Category: Tech

the purpose of fingerprinting your email is to prove the authenticity of the sender. pgp is recommended in the case study below, fraud was committed cos’ scammers hack into the email accounts of the lawyers and solicit for money from the lawyers’ clients. common digital certificates is controversial as many duplicates are found on the web and impersonating can be easy after getting hold of […]

It’s best to accept that some spam will always get through, but if you’re only getting five a day, it’s not worth worrying about. Just delete them and concentrate on the more important things in life. the below links are good read if spam emails are a real bother to you: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2016/sep/22/is-there-any-way-to-stop-adult-spam-emails   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2016/feb/18/how-can-i-stop-spam-emails

the below links contain information that you need when you encounter hard disk failure, certain type of hard disk failure requires it to be sent to the laboratory to recover your data and in some cases, you can actually do-it-yourself.   https://www.howtogeek.com/173463/bad-sectors-explained-why-hard-drives-get-bad-sectors-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/   http://www.adrc.com/diy_rescue/win/hard_disk_clicking.html   http://harddriveclicking.net/category/click-of-death   ddrescue is a good tool to recover files from bad hard disks with logical errors if you know […]

the following youtube link is a good guide for disassembling imac for instance, hard disk replacement. https://youtu.be/zkcTFHc179Q the below snapshots are my own(Taking the faulty hard disk out and replacing it with a new one, reinstall and tested ok):  

there are some useful tools which every home computing individual should know about, refer to the links below: http://blog.nirsoft.net/ http://www.nirsoft.net/  

i am not trying to tell people that facebook videos can be stolen. it’s just some educational videos which can really be useful and if you don’t save the videos, it may turn out that that the links have been taken down the next time you want to access videos again. wonderfully, it’s easy to save videos of your interest using the simple steps below: […]

as the title suggest, when you are experiencing slow internet connection speed or something not so right with accessing websites. it’s not the wifi adpapter but something else. the below suggest some of the symptoms of a failing wifi adapter/chip if it is really failing:   http://smallbusiness.chron.com/symptoms-failing-wifi-card-71204.html   on the other hand, use the tips in the link provided below to find out what causes […]