Personalized IT Design by Avende

When you were thinking of starting a business, did you develop a strategy for what would happen when your network server failed?  How about deciding who had administration access to each computer?  Avende believes in providing your small business with the knowledge...

Maybe There is Such A Thing as TOO Secure

Kottke has a funny post about complex password requirements , but there are some good resources at the end of the article for developing secure passwords. Read it here. Exactly eight characters? No consecutive repeating characters? This is the internet equivalent of...

Bad Passwords

Courtesy Forbes.com. by David Coursey If you see your password below, STOP! Do not finish reading this post and immediately go change your password — before you forget. You will probably make changes in several places since passwords tend to be reused for multiple...

Search Engines for the Hidden Web

Check out this blog post  from makeuseof.com which lists little-known search engines focused on the ‘hidden’ internet.  These sites, many of which are designed for scientific research, search parts of the web which cannot be indexed by familiar search...