I spoke with John Hering CEO of Lookout, the most downloaded mobile security app. He has over 10 years mobile security experience and works to protect people from hackers and thieves everyday. He noted “There are a handful of applications that can produce sophisticated attacks — that don’t require overly sophisticated software.”

Good piece from my friend Katie Linendoll the energetic Tech Wiz on CNN and CBS. Definitely worth a read (unless you don’t have a cell phone, which is weird).

When I was younger I used to caller-id spoof people claiming that I was Bill Gates – it was pretty easy to do at the age of 12.

Here’s how you fix it:

• Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
• Type this in:
• sudo killall vpnagentd

Thanks Greg!

If you’ve ever missed an appointment and been charged for it, then you’ll understand the importance of reminders. This service will pay for itself the first time you receive a reminder.

Maintaining the site and sending reminders costs money. This holiday season, buy yourself a Use Reminders premium account or gift one to a friend. You won’t only be supporting an awesome service, but helping a poor college kid pay the bills. Oh, and you’ll be able to create unlimited reminders too.

Happy Holidays!

Buy now or learn more about premium accounts.

First you’ll need to visit usereminders.com

When creating a new reminder, simply use one of the following email formats based on your cell phone provider/carrier (replace <phonenumber> with your actual phone number):

ATT: <phonenumber>@txt.att.net
Verizon: <phonenumber>@vtext.net
T-Mobile: <phonenumber>@tmomail.net
Sprint: <phonenumber>@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Rogers: <phonenumber>@pcs.rogers.com
Alltel: <phonenumber>@message.alltel.com

Example: 12345678090@txt.att.net

Enjoy!

Here’s what I will do with the new MacBook Pro:

Alternatives to the MacBook Pro:

How you benefit

Companies donating large sums of money (over $250) will receive their logo placed on the lid of the MacBook Pro (you’ll need to provide me with a sticker or equivalent).

Friends and family who donate will receive my love and a special e-goodie bag with coupons for remote computer support, free consultations, and other tech related things.

How to donate

You can donate by clicking this link or using the button on the right under “Please Donate!”

Please donate!

Move your iTunes folder to your Dropbox folder. This will probably take a really long time. For me it took about 8 hours.

Launch iTunes while holding the option key (shift on Windows).

Click choose library and choose your iTunes library folder in your Dropbox.

Another goodie from samsoff.es →

1. Connect your iPhone to your computer.

2. Open iTunes and click on your iPhone in the devices list.

3. Click check for updates.

4. Install the new update.

5. When the install and syncing finishes, reboot your iPhone.

6. Tap on Messages. Your iPhone will now have a small camera icon next to the text field. Viola, You’re done!

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Single User (Canadian)

Here is a list of my favorite features that you will find in Snow Leopard:

• Faster Wake up, shut down, and joining a wireless network.
• Automatic Automatic Automatic! Snow Leopard automatically detects your current time zone and will update printer drivers so you don’t have to.
• Safari is super fast in Snow Leopard. It’s also super resistant to crashes (Damn browser plugins, ahem, Flash).
• Built in Microsoft Exchange support right out of the box. Great for students and organizations utilizing Microsoft Exchange (almost everyone). Email, Contacts and Calendar with Exchange will work the way they are supposed to without any extra setup.
• Exposé and Stacks get new functionality. Exposé will now utilize the dock for a better user experience (just click and hold on an application icon and all windows will unshuffle so you can quickly change to unshuffle another one). Stacks are now scrollable and gains navigation.
• Grand Central Dispatch! For us developers this is simply awesome. It makes it super easy to take advantage of multicore processors. Consumers will also notice a kick-ass difference in application performance by applications utilizing this technology.
• OpenCL, yet another geeky technology. When an application needs extra processing power it can turn to the graphic processor to share the load. Another piece of technology to make your mac scream in terms of performance.
• 64-bit native applications including Finder. Speed!
• Reclaim your storage! Not only will installing Snow Leopard be 45% faster than it’s predecessor, but it’ll give you about 6 GB of storage back!

Traditionally Apple charges $129 for new versions of OS X, however this version is so important that they want everyone to upgrade and it’ll only cost them $29.