Most smartphones use Secure Digital (SD) card to increase storage for music, photos, videos, and apps. What happens when you need to erase one? TechSoup's Jim Lynch explains how and we wanted to share it with you. Secure Digital (SD) cards are removable flash storage memory cards that most smartphones...
TechRec: Google’s Transparency Report Will Help You Protect Your Email from Prying Eyes
Regardless of how you might feel about NSA whistle blower Edward Snowdon, his revelations have sparked much needed discussions on ways to protect our privacy. With this in mind, Google is encouraging email users to ensure that the emails they are sending are encrypted, so anyone monitoring the Internet would...
The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now – Reposted from Mashable.com
There is a lot of information out about the Heartbleed bug in the news - what sites have been compromised, how to protect yourself, and if you should change your passwords or wait until you are notified by vendors that the bug has been patched before you make the update....
TechRec: Lighten Your Load with the Hootoo TripMate
Whether I'm packing for a day on the road or for a weekend trip, I try to keep in mind two mandates: 1) Don't forget anything this time, and 2) Less is more. Sometimes my quest to fulfill one of these negates the other and I either over pack or...
Tech Rec: Take the Next Step in Managing Financial Documents in the Cloud with FileThis
In an effort to go paperless, most of us have online access to documents that we once would have saved in our filing cabinets. While we no longer have stacks of bank and credit card statements, bills and tax forms jamming our files, we still have to spend time downloading...