Hard Disk Data Recovery – An Expensive Proposition

I recently had my hard drive crash. I don’t mean that Windows decided to be bitchy and make me reinstall it. No, I mean that my hard drive, spinning away quietly at it’s ungodly speeds, suddenly emitted a scratching, screeching sound which could only be described as sickening, and immediately wiped out vast swathes of [...]

Wireless Notebooks – Great Things Come In Small Packages

Computers have come a long way since the era of DOS and the old full size 5 1/4″ floppy disks. Looking back, that Apple computer I typed a paper on back in the 8th grade seems so primitive. A black screen with green characters and the only thing it was connected to was the electrical [...]

Wireless Network Security

It seems that everything is going wireless these days. Though this is very convenient, it does bring up some issues about safety and security of personal information. Some like to break into wireless networks in order to get information that may allow an identity to be stolen or to simply drain someone of all of [...]