Category Archives for Internet

WTF is CISPA?!

What is CISPA? “Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act” or H.R. 624 What does this bill do? ‘To provide for the sharing of certain cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat information between the intelligence community and cyber security entities, and for other … Continue reading

21. April 2013 by jrswab
Categories: Internet, Politics/Government, Security | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Project Glass Conspiracies

With this new technology emerging there are naturally some concerns about privacy. Don’t get me wrong; I love a good conspiracy story to get the freedom flowing but here are some that Keith Myers’ points out are really not much to fear: … Continue reading

04. April 2013 by jrswab
Categories: Google, Project Glass | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

If I Had Glass

  I won the opportunity to become a Project Glass Explorer! Please donate to bring Glass to jrswab.com What is Project Glass? That pretty much sums it up! How did I win the chance to become a beta tester? They held a … Continue reading

01. April 2013 by jrswab
Categories: Google, Project Glass | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Ingress, Take Two

I have been able to play Ingress for over a week now and have been doing the best I can to triangulate and capture Mind Units (MU). I am currently at level 4 which allows me to depoly level 4 … Continue reading

29. November 2012 by jrswab
Categories: Android, Apps, Google | Tags: , , , , , , | 2 comments

Firefox Plugin Check

The other day I opened up Firefox to do some of my daily web browsing when I was directed to a tab listing all of my plug-ins. Many of them were out dated and with a click of a button, … Continue reading

05. September 2012 by jrswab
Categories: Firefox, Internet, Tools, Web Browsers | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Project Glass by Google

From the first two minutes of the video below I was hooked. The video is titled “One day…” and hopefully that day is sooner than later. If I don’t have one of these in my possession come ten years from … Continue reading

12. April 2012 by jrswab
Categories: Google, Internet, Project Glass | Tags: , , , , , | 1 comment

Facebook buys Instagram for $1 Billion

Today Facebook bought instagram for 1 billion U.S dollars. That seems like a lot of cash and to most it is; if someone came to me and offed a billion dollars for a program I created, I would jump all … Continue reading

09. April 2012 by jrswab
Categories: Money, Social Networks | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

Twitter Permissions

Time to clean out those dirt old twitter permissions that we all forgot about. Here are the steps: 1. Click this link (log-in if needed) 2. Find app/site you wish to free your twitter info from 3. Click “Revoke Access” … Continue reading

07. April 2012 by jrswab
Categories: DIY, Internet, Security, Social Networks | Tags: , , , , , , , | 2 comments

Google Permissions

Time for another permission cleanse; this time for Google. It is very simple: 1. Click this link 2. Find the apps and sites you no longer need (The first half of the page will show you the permissions you have granted access) … Continue reading

06. April 2012 by jrswab
Categories: DIY, Internet, Security, Social Networks | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 3 comments

Password of Steal

I StumbledUpon this a while back and found that this is true; I chose to use howsecureismypassword.net to test the words of the InfoComic. Password:                       Years to hack*: Tr0ub4dor&3                    71 thousand years correcthorsebatterystaple  30 quintillion years Both will take … Continue reading

04. April 2012 by jrswab
Categories: Internet, Security, Tools | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

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