When your data is in the cloud, you’re relying on someone else to back up your stuff. If your account gets hacked or the service glitches, your data could go up in a puff of smoke. Revert.io automatically backs up your Evernote, Tumblr, and other data online. Read more…
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Revert.io Backs Up Your Evernote, Tumblr, and Other Cloud Data
If the Sony hack has taught us anything , it’s that keeping incriminating emails in your inbox is a terrible idea. Even if you aren’t doing anything particularly bad, if someone gets into you email, everything you’ve ever said could be out in the open. Here’s how to make sure that doesn’t happen by automatically backing up and deleting everything in your Gmail account on a schedule. Read more…
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How to Automatically Back Up and Purge Your Gmail Every 30 Days
Setting up encryption on your wireless router is one of the most important things you can do for your network security , but your router probably offers various different options—WPA2-PSK (TKIP), WPA2-PSK (AES), and WPA2-PSK (TKIP/AES) among the alphabet soup. How-To Geek explains which one to choose for a faster, more secure home network. Read more…
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The Difference Between Wi-Fi Security Protocols: WPA2-AES vs WPA2-TKIP
LastPass just announced a new feature for the password manager that automatically changes your password for sites when a hack is reported. Read more…
You’ve likely heard before that you should never defragment your SSD. Conventional wisdom says not only do solid state drives not need defragging, doing so would cause unnecessary writes to the drive. This is only partially true. In fact, Windows does sometimes defragment SSDs—on purpose. Read more…
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Windows Does Defragment SSDs, But It’s Okay
It’s been a rough week for Sony execs ( million-dollar salaries notwithstanding ). And things are only going to get worse . Which would almost be enough to make you feel bad for the poor schmucks in IT—that is, until you realize that they hid their most sensitive password data under the label “Passwords.” Go ahead and slam your head against something hard. We’ll wait. Read more…
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Sony Kept Thousands of Passwords in a Folder Named "Password"
iOS 8.1.1 was released earlier this week and includes a few small bug fixes . It also happens to break the current version of the iOS jailbreak . If you updated on accident and want to keep your ability to jailbreak, iDownloadBlog shows you how. Read more…
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Downgrade From iOS 8.1.1 to 8.1 If You Want to Jailbreak
There is just something unexplainably awesome about carnivorous plants eating things. It’s like nature’s revenge mixed with some alien imagination, like if these plants were grown from a different planet. Watch these carnivorous plants grow and chomp at bugs in this wonderful time lapse. Read more…
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Watching carnivorous plants eat bugs is strangely therapeutic
We love CrashPlan for its inexpensive, unlimited and automated backup service, but many of us have seen terrible upload speeds or high CPU usage when CrashPlan is running. This might be the fix. Read more…
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Speed Up CrashPlan Backups and Free Up CPU Power with These Scripts
Live in a Microsoft bubble? Then you might be able to make good use of its new Work & Play Bundle, which wraps up all its subscription services in one place for $200 a year. Read more…
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All of Microsoft’s Best Subscription Services Are Now in a $200 Bundle