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WikiHow

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Rob Barkey
– November 19, 2011Posted in: Hardware, Home Entertainment, maintenance, security, Services, Software

Wiki HowWikiHow is on collaborative online how-to guide. This is a useful site that you can use to send customers to in helping them with DIY resolutions. They often have step-by-step directions, and sometime videos on how to do something. While the website covers many different categories they have an extensive section on Computers and Electronics. For those of us in the Computer and Electronics support fields it might help us to look through this area.

Since WikiHow allows user submissions, it can also be a great place to share your  expertise with the world. Visit their website at www.WikiHow.com.

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Hak5 and HakTip Podcast

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Rob Barkey
– November 17, 2011Posted in: Hardware, malware, Podcast, Scam, security, spyware, Video, Virus

Hak5Hak5 is a video podcast on the Revision3 network. Hak5 is a show about computer and network security, Do-It-Yourself, home-brew, open source, and generally just wanting to know how and why things work. They speed a lot of time explaining how easy it is to hack into a network (lately mostly wireless network) to show how easy it is unless you take the necessary steps to be secure.
Hak5 is a weekly show hosted by Darren Kitchen, co-hostess is Shannon Morse, and the occasional guest. The same people bring up HakTip a bi-weekly show that is a shortened version of Hak5.

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Stop SOPA Day

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Rob Barkey
– November 16, 2011Posted in: Internet, News, security

Today, November 16th, is stop SOPA and stop Protect IP day. Please watch the video below.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

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Software Testing

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Rob Barkey
– November 12, 2011Posted in: security, Software

TestingBefore you ever get access a new software program or application, most developers, will test their software using alpha testing and beta testing groups. They will try to identify bugs and fix the problems before they release their product to the general public.

But you ask why are there still so many bugs with these new software program when the general public get them? Why do they crash and have to get constant updates?

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