How many times have you wanted or needed to share what you were browsing with a co-worker or friend, but didn’t want to go through the trouble of installing extra software? Maybe you’ve needed to help someone with a specific website and found it hard to do so without seeing what they were seeing, or…
Each month more and more applications are jumping on the two-factor authentication bandwagon, and rightly so. Two-factor authentication is an excellent security measure that helps to stop unauthorized logins into your accounts. Even if someone knows your password, they won’t be able to access your account without that second security code, which is accessible from…
In the wake of the PRISM event and the statement that Google make “Gmail users have no reasonable expectation that their communications are confidential“, perhaps it is really time for us to wake up and start to take the privacy issue more seriously. We have discussed plenty of privacy precautions and measures that you can…
Most browsers allow you to disable javascript in their Settings page, but doing so will not give you a good browsing experience as most sites require javascript to function properly. Wouldn’t it be good if you can block javascript only for a specific site/page? Google Chrome comes with a native feature that allows you to…
Welcome to the cloud era, a point in our history where we think it’s a great idea to let data fly away to a remote server and never touch your home computer ever again. It’s not necessarily a bad idea, but it certainly isn’t a good frame of reference. What you put into the cloud…
Peer discovery is an essential part of the BitTorrent protocol. It’s how its downloads happen so quickly: You connect to multiple people, and each of them upload a little piece of the file to you. This phenomenon has created a very popular way to download and share information on the internet, both legitimate and illegitimate….
QR codes are becoming increasingly popular these days. With these QR Codes, you can easily encode links, images, text etc. which can be shared with anyone who has a Smartphone or a device capable of scanning them. In this article, we will show you how you can quickly create QR codes directly from your browser’s…
Simple pitches itself as “Banking for humans, by humans.” It is an online service that seeks to change the way people manage their money by allowing them to store their money online without ever having to step inside a bank. The service is one of the largest innovations to how people manage their money we’ve…
In this digital age, almost everything is being converted into paperless transactions. Travel documents, bank statements, and even bills can now be sent out in digital form, mostly through e-mail. Signing documents is no exception, and there are a number of handy web and mobile apps that allow a user to simply digitize their signatures…