Author: axistech
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Webserver Maintenance in the Next 72 Hours
An issue has recently been discovered that may cause complications for all servers running the Xen hypervisor which is utilized on all customer servers in US Central Zone A. Due to the severity of this issue, we will be performing maintenance on all customer servers in US Central Zone A during the next 72 hours. Here is an…
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Apple Commits to Our Privacy
Apple announced that all data stored on an iOS device running iOS 8 is fully encrypted and cannot be accessed without your passcode.
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Sending Your System Profile
Go to the Apple menu in the upper left corner of the screen and click on About This Mac. Then click on More Info… In the following window, click on System Report… Go to the File menu and click on Save and save the system profile to your desktop. Then you can attach the file…
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28 Lawmakers lobby FCC to kill Net Neutrality… after being paid to do so.
28 of our esteemed lawmakers sold more soul and lobbied the FCC NOT to make broadband into a public utility. The top brass wrote a letter that is absolutely unbelievable, except we already know these “lawmakers” totally sold out long ago. Boehner (R-OH), Cantor (R-VA), McCarthy (R-CA) and McMorris (R-WA) wrote: “We are writing to…
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Amazon Announces MatchBook
Starting in October Amazon will offer MatchBook, a service where thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases will soon allow you to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1001373341
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IFTTT
IFTTT stands for “If this then that”. It is a new generation of services that allows you to setup recipes that trigger events. For example, I have one setup that tells me when Apple’s stock price drops below $300. When that happens, it sends me an email. Anther is this post. When I publish it…
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Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal
The Librarian of Congress decided in October 2012 that unlocking of cell phones would be removed from the exceptions to the DMCA. As of January 26, consumers will no longer be able unlock their phones for use on a different network without carrier permission, even after their contract has expired. Consumers will be forced to…
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How to check to see if an email is valid
I am continuously getting SPAM phishing emails and I thought I would quickly demonstrate how to check the validity of the message. This tutorial is for Apple Mail, but the concept is the same for other mail clients. Here is the latest message I have received: When you have the message open in Mail, go…