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Windows 7 Video Tip – Adding new items to the sendto menu

March 21, 2011 by Joe Hackman Leave a Comment

Typical Sendto Menu

When you right click a file or folder on your Windows 7 computer there are several menus available, one of them is the “sendto” menu. This allows you to easily send that file or folder to that program or folder. One important option that is missing in this menu is the notepad program. In this video I demonstrate how to add new items to the sendto menu or specifically the notepad program in the example. You can use it for almost anything a program, network drive even an FTP server.

The Era of Mobile Security has begun

February 17, 2011 by Joe Hackman 1 Comment

The era of mobile security has begun officially this February 2011. Some downright outrageous security flaws are being exposed for our growing fleet of mobile electronic devices such as Smart Phones and iPads. For the first time ever we posted two articles about security issues with substantial mobile security implications on our Facebook page:

Mobile Security Related Posts

Either one of those articles by themselves would have huge implications in the security of mobile devices, but the startling thing is that there are others popping up in the last 24 hours as well, and that is what compelled me to write this article for the Managed Solutions blog.

HongTouTou Android Trojan

A Chinese localized (targeting Chinese language users) Trojan emerged for the Android platform this week. The Trojan rode onto unsuspecting users via Android App marketplaces and forums.

$2,000 worth of equipment can extract Crypto Keys from Mobile Device Signals

Threatpost did an amazing job of describing a problem with how Cryptography is implemented on mobile devices. The problem results in the ability to actually capture and mimic the cryptographic key that could be for say your mobile phones payment system. This is particularly important because a lot of people see mobile as having a bright future in the payment arena.

iPhone Hacked and Passwords Stolen in Six Minutes

Fraunhofer has a video and press release demonstrating the ability to hack an iPhone and recover passwords in just 6 minutes. You don’t have to be an information security professional to realize that this is not good news for iPhone or iPad users that store anything of sensitive nature on their devices. Here is the video if you’re interested:

Thanks for the Wakeup calls today and kudos to Threatpost, Ben Jun, Cryptography Research and Fraunhofer.

Facebook makes big changes to Pages Interface

February 10, 2011 by Joe Hackman 12 Comments

Facebook has long neglected the Pages interface but that all changed today with some big changes. The best way to summarize the changes is that your Facebook page will function more like a user profile does. A couple of the extremely welcomed new features:

The ability to comment on your page as yourself and not the page.
Notifications via Email when users comment. (Cool but Hyper-Alerts is still better!)
A cleaner more familiar user experience.
A news feed for your home page.

This is the image that greeted me tonight when I logged into my page:

I will be providing a lot more data on this, but this ought to get you started with this new feature.

Save travel and searching time with a custom Traffic Map

February 8, 2011 by Joe Hackman 3 Comments

DC Traffic photo credit: Joe Shlabotnik

While spot checking traffic on Google Maps today I went to refresh the map I’d created and it disappeared. I then realized that you need to create a link using the Google maps interface in order to be able to refresh the window correctly. It dawned on me that others are encountering a similar issue and might find a simple effective link easier to use. This video demonstrates that and will save you travel and searching time. I’ve found that often here in the Bay Area you can save a lot of time by waiting 15-20 minutes especially coming out of peak times. I also will use the custom traffic map to decide which way to go depending on where the worst traffic is at the time. Hopefully this will also save you time.

More from the idea farm… what else can you do with this?

For starters you can use your URL shortener like mine to create a really simple link that you can reference at any time from any device (where you have not already bookmarked the link) For example I turned this messy link:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.589207,-122.140503&spn=0.582183,1.742706&z=10&layer=t

into this simple link:

http://msol.us/b

Email it to your smart phone
By emailing this link to your smart phone such as my Motorola Droid, you will be prompted to open it using either a browser or Google Maps. By selecting Google maps you will be able to quickly and easily view the map on your phone without fumbling around. You could also create and send a link to a friend or loved one travelling to the airport, etc. I ran into a similar situation several weeks ago when my Podcast guest @dcfemella was running late in DC traffic. I was able to relay a little bit of information to her. Next time I find myself in that situation, I will mail them a link to their smart phone.

Do you have other ideas about how you could re-purpose this Traffic Map link?

Rich Price appears on Press:Here and will join me live Wednesday night

February 7, 2011 by Joe Hackman 2 Comments

You might have read my post a few weeks ago about the “Chain of Life 2.0“. Since then this story has received (rightfully so, and certainly with little to do with my post!) a lot of coverage. Yesterday Rich and the app were featured on Press:Here on NBC. He was joined by Ben Parr of Mashable and Kym McNicholas contributor to Forbes. This Wednesday night he will join me, Adriel Hampton and Louis Gray on my Blog Talk Radio program to talk more about the app, and the implication of this app in tech, open source and gov 2.0. We will be live at 7PM PST and I would be happy to relay questions you might have for Rich, Adriel or Louis about this incredibly exciting new application.

Check out this video to learn more, and please join us Wednesday as we discuss the Worlds First Location Based Life Saving Mobile App.

(Disclosure: The San Ramon Valley Fire Protection district is a client, but I am not being paid to promote the app I am doing that because I personally support what they are doing.)