If, despite the many warnings, you are still using WEP encryption to secure your wifi network, now is a good time to switch to WPA.
Tutorials on hacking WEP encrypted networks have made it past niche hacker communities and on to mainstream tech blogs as this article over at lifehacker reveals.
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Many of us use several different browsers through-out the day. You might use IE at the office, Safari on your Mac and Firefox on your Linux machine. Keeping track of bookmarks and making sure all your browsers remain synced can be a real pain. I recently tried using an application called BookDog which attempts to keep your bookmarks (between Safari and Firefox) synced on the same machine.
While it did manage to sync my bookmarks, the process and menus were confusing. This is also the kind of task you don’t want to do manually or have to deal with.
Now I think I have finally found a good solution. Xmarks.com (formerly known as Foxmarks) is a free service that keeps IE, Safari and Firefox synced. I have been using it for around 3-4 weeks now and am very happy with the results.
Here’s how it works:
1. Sign up a free account
2. Install the xmarks plugin for Firefox, IE or Safari (or all three). The plugins have to be installed per browsers, so you will have to visit the website with the browsers you would like to keep in sync and install the plugin.
That’s it. From now on Xmarks will periodically sync all your browsers, so that when you launch them, you will immediately have links added in a different browsers during a different surfing session.
A word of advice however, by default your bookmarks are “public”, which means they will be added to Xmarks.com’s database of searchable browsers. Don’t worry though, first of all links will only appear enough Xmarks users have them, and, you in your user account settings you can choose to keep your bookmarks private and not share them with the Xmarks community.
Do you know of any other easy to use services that sync bookmarks between different browsers?
Jun 28
As you may have noticed, the past weeks have been rather quiet here at CC. The month of May has been one of the busiest for me in a long time, with projects, exams and a move to a new apartment all taking place at the same time.
I am happy to say that the stress is over and I am able to devote my free time to my hobbies, such as blogging about my recent tech experiences and sharing interesting info.
To celebrate the comeback, I have wrapped CC in a rather nice theme that I downloaded from the Wordpress Theme gallery, called Arclite.