Here is an interesting Kickstarter project. Connectify Switchboard is trying to raise $100,000 for a project to build their software that aims to improve Internet speed. The software achieves the faster speed by utilizing all of your connections to the Internet and making them available for improved downloads and uploads. … [Read more...]
PDFMate offers free PDF Merger and Converter tools
Adobe Acrobat, the de facto PDF software, is an expensive utility when you only occasionally need to alter PDF documents. But when you need to, it is nice to have something readily available that works and works well. Even with Office 2013 gaining the ability to edit PDFs, there is still a place for the utilities that make manipulating PDFs easy. PDFMate Free PDF Merger is one … [Read more...]
Free security software tools from HBGary
HBGary was a technology security company that made more of a name for itself in its demise than its successes. The company was founded by Greg Hoglund, a security researcher and author of books on rootkits, exploiting online games, and exploiting software, each of which I have previously read and reviewed. HBGary Federal was a subsidiary spun off to work with the government … [Read more...]
Catincan – a crowdfunding site for open source projects
Kickstarter and IndieGoGo have standardized crowdfunding for a variety of projects. One type of projects, open-source software, has been around for far longer but has often faced gaps between interest in projects and funding. One website aims to fix that problem as a crowdfunding site specializing in open source projects. … [Read more...]
Book Review: This Machine Kills Secrets by Andy Greenberg
This Machine Kills Secrets - How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information is written by Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg and provides a historical recount of the use of the cryptography revolution. This takes the story from the Pentagon Papers of 1971 to the WikiLeaks of 2010 and beyond with several organizations' attempts to build the next … [Read more...]