The Top 10 Personal Cyber Security Tips

1. Keep Your Software Up to Date As we saw from the stats above, ransomware attacks were a major attack vector of 2017 for both businesses and consumers. One of the most important cyber security tips to mitigate ransomware is patching outdated software, both operating...

7 Steps to More Data Security

These tips will help you stay safe from identity theft and other digital dangers By Allen St. John Consumer Reports March 2019 Just Say No “Be stingy with personal information,” advises Justin Brookman, Consumer Reports’ director of consumer privacy and technology...

New Image Formats Coming to Web Publishing

Most anyone who has worked with digital files is familiar with JPG/JPEG, TIFF, PNG,and GIF files, as the dominating formats for designers doing online publishing. Here comes some new formats. Check out the article guide below courtesy of Freecodecamp.org....

There May Soon Be Three Internets. America’s Won’t Necessarily Be the Best.

A breakup of the web grants privacy, security and freedom to some, and not so much to others.  By The Editorial Board The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section. Oct....

Justice Department Sues to Stop California Net Neutrality Law

How so very different, smarter, cleaner, more just, and well balanced, the country would be if more of it were like California. By Cecilia Kang, Via NYTimes, Sept. 30, 2018 WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Sunday sued California to stop the state’s...
Scala Foundation

Scala Foundation

Project: Scala Foundation Web Site and Logo Development Client: Scala Foundation Technologies: CS6: Photoshop; WordPress; Divi PageBuilder, MailChimp. Description: Web site development, logo, and Emailing outreach program. URL: scalafoundation.org

The Verge 2016 tech report card: Facebook

The Verge 2016 tech report card: Facebook

by Casey Newton From The Verge Another 12 months have flown by. As we look back at this year in tech, The Verge staff members are grading each major company and product category in the industry on how they fared in 2016. Last year, with its profits surging and user...

Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing

The New York Times By  QUENTIN HARDY DEC. 25, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO — Jeff Bezos of Amazon, along with a couple of his rivals, may eventually control much of the $1 trillion global market for business computers and software. That is because Amazon Web Services, his...

Your drone looks chilly, does it want this sweater?

Your drone looks chilly, does it want this sweater?

by Kaitlyn Tiffany From The Verge For a mere $189 you can take your drone from maybe a little chilly to definitely toasty-warm. Wouldn’t you like to do that for your drone? If you would, San Francisco-based artist Danielle Baskin will help you. She makes this...

How to Downgrade from iOS 10.2 to 10.1.1

How to Downgrade from iOS 10.2 to 10.1.1

BY JOSH SMITH 12/12/2016 This guide will show you how to go back to iOS 10.1.1 from iOS 10.2. If you run into iOS 10 problems or don’t like the performance on your iPhone or iPad after upgrading you can go back. Here’s how to downgrade from 10.2. Apple just released...

How to Back Up Your Social Media Feeds

How to Back Up Your Social Media Feeds

New York Times By  J. D. BIERSDORFER DEC. 15, 2016 Q. My photos posted on Instagram (along with my captions) function like a visual diary of my years. Is there a safe way to preserve them — off my phone, maybe even to transfer them to hard copy? I would be devastated...

Biggest Tech Failures and Successes of 2016

Biggest Tech Failures and Successes of 2016

New York Times By Brian X. Chen If you love technology, it may be time for a group hug: This year has been rough for consumer technology. From exploding smartphones and hoverboards to the proliferation of fake news on social media, many of our tech hardware, software...

Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed

Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed

Computer scientists can prove certain programs to be error-free with the same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems. The advances are being used to secure everything from unmanned drones to the internet. By Kevin Hartnett September 20, 2016 From Quanta Magazine...

4 big plans to fix internet security

4 big plans to fix internet security

Internet security is in crisis. These four proposals offer tangible solutions -- including one scheme to change the Internet's workings from top to bottom By Fahmida Y. Rashid From InfoWorld The Internet is all-encompassing. Between mobile devices and work computers,...