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Two Major Security Flaws, A Rant and The Fixes

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Squealing.Rat.

I was recently staying at a hotel that offered  Wi-Fi. On the network with my Macbook, I noticed the other computers on the network. Curious, I clicked on one, expecting to see a password prompt or an access denied message. Instead, I saw the computer’s public folder and another folder. Interested in what files someone would publicly display to anyone on the network, I opened it to see files that were highly sensitive, including financial data. My mind was blown.

What kind of person would do this? Perhaps a person who had no idea how to use their computer. Perhaps a person that didn’t realize the security flaws at risk. Perhaps a person that was not reading this article.

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Top 5 Safari Plugins

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by srikanth.

Safari has been one of the best browsers in the market, known for its speed, rich look and feel and standards support. Safari allows you to install plugins in order to customize your experience with the browser.  The following are my five favorite plugins that take my browsing experience to the next level.

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4 Free iPhone Apps to Download and Read Ebooks

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Aminul Islam Sajib.

If you like to read, don’t mind ebooks and have an iPhone, your choices of software to read your ebooks on the go is constantly expanding.  One of the downsides is that a lot of those applications cost money.  Well, at LostInTechnology, we like to tell you about useful software that is often free.  Today is one of those days.

We are going to let you know about 4 free iPhone apps that will let you read Ebooks wherever you go and whenever you want.

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Ultimate Freeware List: Application Launchers

Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by srikanth.

Here at LostInTechnology, we strive to give you great information on great tools and software.  Most articles tend to focus on one or a few specific tools or programs.  The Ultimate Freeware Lists are changing that format around.

We are going to provide you with tons of different tools that are all free and will really expand your arsenal of great programs and software.  These lists are by no means going to be perfect, and we ask all of our loyal readers to help us complete the lists by adding some comments.

In the first list we covered media players. This time we are on a quest to provide you with the ultimate freeware list of Application Launchers.

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Sous Chef: Mac App for Cooks and Cook-Challenged

Posted on 12. May, 2009 by Luis Sandoval.

Today’s society has become an instant gratification society. We consume content, food, information, anything we can get our hands on, quickly, entirely, and we move on. Of course the speed of progress and the changing world help influence these changes, but what about taking the time to cook an well planned meal?

Impossible you say?

Well perhaps for some of us that are used to microwaving just about anything we can, it’s an odd concept to wrap our heads around. A great number of us have not left our college days where our diets included three main staples, pizza, Ramen noodles, and a “beverage” of choice. These habits have carried over into our professional and personal lives after college as we move from place to another, one meeting to the next, with little attention being given to where we are getting our daily intake of food.

For those us Mac users looking to unleash the chef inside all of us, or perhaps for those of us that already know how to cook but looking for more diverse recipes, Sous Chef for Mac is what you have been waiting for.

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10 Free Photo-Editors for Windows and Mac

Posted on 07. May, 2009 by Jonathan Schlaffer.

We all have those pictures that didn’t turn out perfectly or might like to change something about one or more of them. Depending on your specific needs, there are plenty of free programs out there that might do the trick whether you are using a PC or a Mac.

Note, that if you need access to layers or to edit PhotoShop or PDF type files then free editors won’t cut it. Some of them may or may not support RAW, so keep that in mind.

I’m mostly going to concentrate on software that is available for download, though I will present options for online photo editing which are for basic tasks like straightening, removing red-eye as well as sharing.

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Picturesque: Photo Edits for Mac that Trump Photoshop

Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by Luis Sandoval.

There is no doubt that Photoshop has become the heavy hitter with photo edits and graphic creation. Adobe has laid it’s dominance down for quite sometime, and with the acquisition of Macromedia, there is little out there to offer competition enough to change the tide of popularity. Several open source applications have risen up to tackle the behemoth, the most popular being GIMP. GIMP has acquired quite the following but even those followers admit that Photoshop offers a bevy of choices that GIMP still does not offer.

But what about the casual user who just wants to touch up photos? Photoshop can have a steep learning curve for those not familiar with the product, and more time will be spent learning the applicatoin then actual work. So where is the happy medium for a user where an application is both easy to use, and quick to make the edits necessary? The answer comes in a small Mac application called Picturesque.

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The Ins and Outs of Jaikoz Audio File Meta Data Program

Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by LesliePoston.

I am a Mac junkie, and a music lover. I have over 80GB of music, most of which I’ve imported from records, cassettes and CDs that I own. This means that much of my collection had issues with tags, missing album art and more meta data problems than you could shake a stick at. Then a friend recommended Jaikoz to me and I must say that it has made me a very happy girl.

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