It seems that the world is going crazy; everyone wants everyone else's information.  Some companies are going to great lengths to protect their data.  Laptops have gone missing or stolen with tons of important data on them, copy machines have latent images on the hard drives that can contain vital or important private information on them.  So what can be done about all this?  Some companies, including my own, have started encrypting hard drives.  This is nothing new as types of encryption have been around for thousands of years (ever watch an Indiana Jones movie?), but it seems as soon as something makes the news, the purchasing departments or C level staff finally listens to IT.  Read More...

Taipei, Taiwan, August 2010 - QNAP Security, a world class manufacturer of Linux-embedded, standalone Network Video Recorder (NVR) solutions is pleased to announce its participation at SecuTech Vietnam 2010. The entire line-up of QNAP's 1 to 8-drive high performance VioStor NVR models will be exhibited.

There is a lot of functionality that a plugin can add to your WordPress configuration, but for some reason I can't feel comfortable relying simply on plugins for everything.  When something simple comes along that can be done without a plugin, I would much rather go that route.  With that said, I had been looking for an easy way to add some information about the author to display on every article.  It turns out that this is VERY easy to do and DOES NOT require any plugins to accomplish.  This solution uses some WordPress hooks... Read More...

For a lot of us, transitioning from one post to another can be difficult to do.  I try to do it with a Post Thumbnail, but it just seems like it is missing something.  There is an easy way you can separate posts with a separator image and all you have to do is modify your theme's style.css file. Read More...

Until recently, I have never really been a huge fan of laptops.  I am given one for my company, but until I decided to get married I had no reason to be in the living room.  Now that my time can't be dedicated to being in my office on my desktop PC, a laptop has become a necessity.  Although they are named laptops, few of us actually put them on our laps.  The reasons for this vary as much as the reasons for purchasing one in the first place.  My reason is simple... THAT THING GETS HOT!  Spire has suggested that getting a laptop cooling product to keep my precious little laptop cool.  Enter the Spire PacificBreeze II - SP302AP-B. Read More...

There are many things about WordPress that make life easy... and a few that are a real pain in the butt.  One of the pains is the login form's logo and url.  If you are like me, you want to brand your sites and doing so gives the site that extra touch of personalization.  Not to mention, if you are designing a site for a customer, you don't want a big fat logo for WordPress linking to the WordPress.org site on the login form.  Read More...

I can't tell you how many times I have written an article, hit publish, then realized that I made some mistakes.  It doesn't matter how much I proofread a post, it happens all the time.  With that, our readers get these articles delivered to them through my feed.  Wouldn't it be nice if I could delay the feed a bit, just in case I have to make a change? Well, you can... and this is how. Read More...

As our world becomes more digital and the number of "personal" interactions with other people declines, we rely more on email and texting than phone conversations.  There are a few drawbacks to this and I can bet that you have found yourself on one end or the other.  As our interactions move more to email, we have to realize that these interactions are done without understanding inflections in voice and tone. It is becoming more common to misunderstand emails based on this and our responses may be out of line, and possibly detrimental to our career or relationships. Read More...

Taipei, Taiwan, August, 2010 - QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world class NAS (Network Attached Storage) servers announced today the beta application of QMobile, the world's first multimedia player solution for Android. QMobile allows users to stream music, digital pictures, and videos from their QNAP NAS servers and play directly on their Android handsets from anywhere. So long as you have Internet access, you can play all the contents on the NAS remotely, just like having a media center in your pocket!

Every enthusiast faces the time when they have to do something to their computer and realizes they can't find the tool they need to do it.  There have been plenty of times when I scratched a trace on my motherboard and couldn't find my soldering gun or needed a Torx screwdriver and lost the heads.  It would be nice if I could get most of the tools I need to do what I need to do and keep them safe.  Keeping them stored in a nice zippered vinyl case instead of throwing them in a drawer to fumble through or forgetting them somewhere.  Oh! Wait! There is... Enter the StarTech Computer Service Tool Kit. Read More...