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Do you have a hunting club? And want to coordinate better? Keep track of things? Your township or park needs to manage deer and hunters? Need better organization? A property owner who wants to allow hunting on their land? And want a way to keep up with who is hunting on your property. We’d ...

Not locking your wireless network might not seem like a big deal -- except of course when one of your shady neighbors logs on and downloads child pornography. As far as the authorities are concerned, that illegal activity originates from your wireless router, so you are the primary suspect. Read more at FoxNews.com This is definitely the ...

Unless you are stashing your savings in mason jars in the backyard you should worry about online security.  If mason jars are your choice you should consider investing in a decent varmint gun and watch out for ground hogs. Last week I received an email from my bank.  The email was mostly marketing with notes about ...

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) version 2.0 is out of Beta after about 4 months.  It is a big upgrade and it is free to folks with a legitimate copy of Windows 7, Vista or Windows XP.  Microsoft improved the heuristic scanning engine and there is integration with the Windows Firewall.  For Windows 7 and Vista ...

LastPass Acquires Xmarks, Keeping Free Bookmark-Syncing Plans Available.   from Lifehacker I have used Xmarks since the Foxmarks days. This is great news.  I've been worried since Xmarks announced they were closing early next year. Xmarks syncs the bookmarks between the different web browsers and Xmarks syncs between my different computers. One of the first things I do when ...

Ben the Bodyguard. Coming soon to iPhone® and iPod touch®. I'll have to check this out when it's released.  The web site is really cool.

I've had the iPhone 4 for a few weeks now. This weekend I found myself waiting to drop off books at the library.  From the parking lot of the Chester Country Library is a nice view of a wooded stream. It was a good chance to test the HDR feature in the iPhone ...

When one wireless access point is not enough coverage what can you do?  There is no place in the house where the wireless access point is strong enough to use from everywhere that you want to use it.  There are wireless signal boosters but many times they still do not boost the signal enough. You could ...

When my iPhone 3g was first updated to iOS 4.0 (after the hour plus upgrade, multiple reboots and the long time to sync contacts and calendars), well it actually performed pretty good.  It was responsive...for a while.  After a week though the iPhone lost its zip.  The iPhone 3g apps were as slow as I'd ...

via Anti-virus is a Poor Substitute for Common Sense — Krebs on Security. I have seen this for years. Symantec and McAfee offer different opinions but then they make billions of dollars while not keeping you safe. A decent anti-virus is necessary.  The bloated mega-security suites do not catch the malware, these suites slow down your computers and ...