KeePass has been mentioned a few times before, recommended to be your encrypted password database manager and I have been using it exclusively for all of my passwords for months. It's a great tool to prevent your accounts from getting Gawkered. With an app on my phone (KeePassDroid), a portable version on my USB drive, and installed at both home and work, I didn't think KeePass … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
Amazon Launches Appstore for Android – Free Paid App Every Day
Amazon has launched an Appstore for Android apps. Their unique offering includes a free paid app of the day with today's offering being Angry Birds Rio, exclusively from the Amazon Appstore. Other announcements include that Amazon will sell ad-free versions of Angry Birds. Another feature of the Amazon Appstore includes the ability to Test Drive applications which runs the app … [Read more...]
Firefox 4 Final Arrives After Four Month Delay. Was It Worth It?
Firefox 4 has gone through twelve betas and one RC since July 6, 2010. Since then, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 isn't as unique in the ways it was going to change the browser market. Today, Firefox 4 final is ready for production and has been released. It brings with it improvements in speed over its earlier versions, getting faster and more stable with … [Read more...]
Adobe Updates Acrobat and Flash To Address Critical Vulnerability
A week ago, I posted directions on extracting the .msi from Adobe Reader's setup file and the same day Adobe announced a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash that also affected Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. The updates to Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Flash were released today while Adobe Reader X is pending the week of June 14, 2011 and banking on its sandboxing technology to … [Read more...]
Taking Google Maps To The Next Level With Custom My Maps
Sometimes it can be difficult to give directions to somebody that is unfamiliar with an area. You can just give them the address and they can plug it into their GPS or Google/Bing Maps and let those tools determine the best route for them. Sometimes, however, those maps might not tell the story. The road coming from one direction could be under construction whereas the other … [Read more...]