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Is your WLAN secure?

Welcome back!I had a bit of a fright the other day. I was looking around the internet trying to learn about wireless network security when I happened upon an article detailing “How To Crack 128-bit Wireless Networks In 60 Seconds“. I’m not posting that link as a tutorial on how to steal your neighbor’s internet […]

How I deal with SPAM

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the comment that the best way to deal with SPAM emails is to delete them unread - preferrably with some sort of filtering software to automate the process.
I prefer to take a more pro-active approach
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Protecting your images on the web

As a budding photographer I occasionally find myself wanting to post images online so I can show them off, but I don’t want everyone who sees them to be able to steal them. There are several ways to make this more difficult, […]

How to make a link in Thingamablog

Like a lot of other people, I use Thingamablog 1.06 to maintain this blog. It’s easy and, most importantly, it’s FREE.
I happen to know that in a few days someone who is new to blogging in general (you know who you are) is going to ask me for instruction on how to use this software […]

Where digital photography is concerned, SIZE MATTERS!

One of the first things to remember when taking pictures with a digital camera is that bigger is definitely better. A large picture can be scaled down with no real problems. Some information (image detail) is lost in the reduction, but the resulting image is to small to show the difference anyway. The problems arise […]