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How To: Change DNS (and make web surfing faster)

The Internet is so big now, and the average person has more bandwidth at home then existed in the entire world in 1980, that the biggest slow down in web surfing has become the initial DNS or Domain Name Service look up. DNS is the service that translates the human readable Domain Name of 1nova.com [...]

SSL Hijacked

SSL has now officially been hijacked by hackers. With video of proof this hack, it is sure to be seen in the wild very soon.
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer and provides the basic security for all activity across the Internet. So the implications of such a hack are extremely far reaching. This begins [...]

How To Find Specs on Apple Computers

Apple has put up a great web page for those of us who support Macintosh Computers and wish to know the specific specifications on them.
Apple Support Spec page: http://support.apple.com/specs
Machines can be searched for by name or much better, by serial number. If you enter the serial number it pulls up the fulls specifications on [...]

How To: Create and Import vcf VCards

VCards are simply virtual business cards used to exchange contact information. They are easily recognizable with the .vcf file extension. Vcards have rapidly become a universally excepted way of transferring contact information between devices. They can be sent to most phones such as Blackberries and iPhones, or to all the popular Email programs and multiple [...]

Review: Mint, online money management

Mint is a all encompassing website to help you track your financial data. The site has been fairly well received by most people.
On the surface this site is a pretty good idea. Unlike programs like Quicken which need to be told to pull data (at least on Mac, I can’t speak for the Windows [...]