CompTIA created this video to reach out to women and girls to explain different IT jobs that they should consider for their future. There are a wide variety of occupations available and certainly there is a position that combines your passions with technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wveDXPg59w CompTIA’s Advancing Women in Technology community has a message for all … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2015
Amazon heads Underground to revamp free Android apps
Amazon's free Android app of the day page, which I visit daily, was oddly generic this morning. After posting free apps for the past couple years, though there were some repeats, it was odd for Amazon to miss a day. It turned out that the company had much, much more up their sleeves. With what they're coining ActuallyFree, Amazon is able to make more paid apps free through an … [Read more...]
Amazon.com crashes Firefox and Safari
Since early August, visitors to online retailer Amazon.com have been complaining about the website causing Firefox or Safari to crash on Mac and Windows with some instances being bad enough to cause a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). The company has not yet responded to the complaints that continue to pile up on the Amazon feedback forum, Firefox's bug tracker, and the Apple … [Read more...]
Codecademy course teaches Mac/Linux terminal
Codecademy has a new course to teach the command line. The free online learning session is for unix-based systems such as Linux and Mac OS X, but the concepts carry over to Windows as well. It is written for the beginner level and is estimated to take only an hour to complete. The course is broken down into four sections: Get up and running with the command line by … [Read more...]
Windows 10 says a PIN is more secure than a password. How?
During the setup or upgrade of Windows 10, you might be presented with a screen titled 'Passwords are so yesterday' after you sign in with a Microsoft account. With it, Microsoft makes the claim "Using a PIN is faster and more secure than a password - we think you'll love it." This seems contradictory to all that we have learned about passwords like the longer and the more … [Read more...]