MyEnTunnel, Slick Windows SSH Tunneling

I found a program called MyEnTunnel that does all the proxying and tunneling I was doing with Putty, but frees my taskbar, automatically reconnects, and has a friendly icon in the system tray to alert me of connection status.
This program is definitely worth a look. It uses Plink from the killer Putty distribution for the [...]

How to easily remove information from Google Cache

How to easily remove information from Google Cache
With all of the press dedicated to professional consulting services to SEO or cleansing search results, here’s a self-help article showing how to remove your own items from Google cache as well as how to remove external links.
[via Zhongg Internet Digest ]

Route all of your internet traffic through a proxy

Route all of your internet traffic through a proxy

Do you work from coffee shops or communal public wireless presences (like FON) and want to keep your internet traffic safe?
With an SSH account on a server outside of your wireless location (through a web hosting service Dreamhost, my service that includes SSH access to your [...]

When NOT to use email…

It would seem that for most people this is not intuitive. I’m still getting people asking me how they can reduce the inappropriate use of e-mail in their organizations. So this time around I’m going to be more explicit. Here are ten situations when you should not use e-mail, even though you may be tempted [...]

Automatically archive old email

From Lifehacker:
Are you sick of hitting your email server’s space limit every month and having to clean out old messages manually? The How-To Geek explains how to configure Microsoft Outlook to automatically archive old email messages onto your hard drive. For example, you could have Outlook archive all messages older than 6 months every 20 [...]

Open source, less secure?

Disturbing article on C:net regarding a ruling affecting software radios:
Mobile-gadget makers are starting to take advantage of software-defined radio, a new technology allowing a single device to receive signals from multiple sources, including television stations and cell phone networks.
But a new federal rule set to take effect Friday could mean that radios built on “open-source [...]

Pain-free remote access

We’re technology professionals. Whether we’re paid to do tech support, we get called upon to do it anyways. We go home for the holidays, and bring key drives with Windows patches and new software for our parents. We walk friends, neighbors, and relatives through DSL problems. We work with dodgy information, sparse details, colorful error [...]