Half of American adults had their personal information exposed to hackers last year alone. In a recent attack at the federal Office of Personnel Management, hackers stole the most sensitive personal data for 21.5 million people. The New York Times recently created a microsite that allows you to answer a few questions to learn which parts of your…
This isn’t exactly current (about a year old, actually) but I ran across a tweet recently by programmer and “Internet cartographer” John Matherly:
Someone I follow on Twitter (CodeVixen) sent out a link to Font Library, an open source project intended to tag and organize Google Fonts. If you’re a little typography-challenged at times like I am, you can shop by tag and the site displays a sample of each font on the page so that you can see…
We regularly read about companies experiencing security breaches, and yet we continue to give an insane amount of data (and level of detail within that data) to companies without giving much thought to how they’re using it, how they’ll protect it, or whether we should perhaps limit their ability to store it. Sometimes, as I’ve…
Looking for a way to keep your online accounts (cloud storage, banking, social media, email, etc.) as secure as possible? Two-factor verification (also known as two-step authentication, abbreviated to TFA) is a process involving two stages to verify the identity of a user trying to access services in a computer or in a network. This is…
If you use an Android device, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that it’s easiest to manage your contacts from your Google account. But what if your record-keeping system for contacts is Microsoft Outlook, which doesn’t sync with Google? If you have a Mac, the whole process is complicated but it doesn’t require manual effort once it’s set up.…
Import folders are a perfect way to easily drag and drop documents from a computer into your Evernote account. Follow these instructions to set up an import folder: First, open your Evernote application (the Evernote program, not the web site) and click on Tools and then Import Folders. This will open the Import Folders setting…