Entries Tagged as ‘Technology’

April 6, 2009

How one man built a sliding house to adapt to the changing seasons

By Claire Bates

It gives new meaning to the phrase ‘moving house.’ At first glance, Ross Russell’s Suffolk home looks like a traditional East Anglian barn. But with one push of a button the house begins to change shape.

Moving house: Mr Russell spent a year designing and building his house In just six minutes the steel [...]

February 21, 2009

8 Awesome Tools To Create & Manage All Your Passwords

by Abhijeet Mukherjee
The easier option would be to maintain a single username and password for all your online accounts, it is not advisable from a security point of view. Lack of strong passwords makes it easy for hackers to break into your accounts. Hence it is better to have a unique and strong password for [...]

February 14, 2009

Effective Ways To Backup Important Data

by Monika Mundell.
· Google Docs/ Zoho
I use Google Docs and Zoho for all my completed client work. This means that once a client has received my project, I move the documents online to keep them safe and away from my hard drive. I feel this works really well as it keeps my hard drive [...]

February 14, 2009

15 Most Useful Productivity Tips for Windows Users

Our pursuit of increased productivity is endless. Right when you think that you are at your peak productivity level, new ideas or technologies pop out of nowhere and force you to reconsider your process.
Listen, no matter how good things are, there are always things that can be tweaked to perform better. Take the PC for [...]

February 14, 2009

6 Very Important Gmail Security Tips

Some of you might be aware of the flurry which took over the blogosphere for a few days after the MakeUseOf blog broke the story about a gmail vulnerability which led to the hijack of its domain by a hacker (cracker, to be more specific).
As many blogs discussed this matter and speculated on Gmail’s security [...]