Category: Tech

the coming of smart speakers, i saw it coming. apple has new homepod speakers, google has google home and amazon has amazon echo. you may want to know if there is a difference between bluetooth and wifi speakers.  The choice of Bluetooth or WiFi is clear. Bluetooth is a universal standard and easy to use. But, its range is quite limited and sound quality is […]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2838189/two-good-reasons-to-stick-with-pop3-email-over-imap.html the above article mentioned the pros over popping your emails on your local computer citing privacy and storage issues. personally, i think it’s better to use email providers with 2 factor authentication. also, using imap protocol emails are mostly encrypted with ssl tunneling, so your email data are not so easy to assemble, even with sniffing. note that emails that use pop protocol, mostly […]

Hilarious corporate rivalry; try and beat this one! Notice on entry gate of a Apple Store in New York: “Don’t ever fart here; the smell will stay for ages.  We don’t have Windows” And Tit for Tat from Microsoft in their premises: “Anyone visiting us here can be free to use Windows in case you need to release stale gas from yesterday’s half eaten apple. […]

ever wonder why so many pple are so glued to their facebook, twitter etc. and find themselves glaring into their iphones, it is a form of digital therapy: “Treatments are being developed for the prevention and management of a wide variety of diseases and conditions, including type II diabetes, congestive heart failure, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, asthma, substance abuse, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and several others.[1][13][14][15] […]

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i read that UEFI boot is slightly faster than legacy. another thing is that UEFI supports trusted platform module which is a form of security that can tell if your computer hardware has been meddled around with such as hacking your computer using sophisticated method. more information about the latest TPM 2.0 can be sought here: https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/wp-content/uploads/TPM-2.0-A-Brief-Introduction.pdf    

today, i encounter a customer whose keyboard on macbook pro has been spilled with water, and thus not working after. she wants it fixed on the very day. i don’t think even apple service centre can have it done cos’ they may need to check if the system is affected by the spill as well. all testing will take time. eventually, i have to give […]

google has been collectively gathering your history data and resell it to adsense. you are especially vulnerable if you are signed-in to chrome browser. i, personally don’t mind and i get to see alternatives that is of interest to me but if you are concerned about privacy and to stop this, you will have to do the following steps: How to Check Your Google History […]

recently, it was revealed that that an audio driver installed on several HP laptops contained a feature that secretly recorded every keystroke entered into the computer. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hp-keylogger-debugging-tool-driver-update,34418.html what about if you are using on screen keyboards or bluetooth keyboards? this is what i discovered on google: Wireless keyboards do encrypt their data, so in theory, the information should be safe, but the quality of the encryption […]

2 factor authentication is a procedure whereby an individual is required to key in both his password and random generated one time password(OTP) for a logon process. this is mostly applied to internet banking and email logon. but there is a security loophole discovered recently. it was found that the random numbers that are either sent to you via sms can be sniffed or hacked. […]