Vonage is a great service. Its relatively inexpensive, and they’ve got some great features, like Simu-Ring, email notifications, etc.,  I had always thought that in order to use the Vonage service one needed to use one of their hardware solutions, or pay extra for a “softphone” – a software based SIP phone, with an additional phone number, and monthly charge.  Wouldn’t it be great if you could fire up any SIP software based phone of your choice and still get ..read more

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If you’re like me, the greatest limiting factor on the Iphone is its inability to run more than one application at a time. In Apple’s infinite wisdom, they apparently decided that battery life and performance were more important than actual usefulness and productivity.  One of the best benefits to Jailbreaking your Iphone is the ability to run applications in the background.  So the next time you’re listening to Pandora  , and you decide you want to check movie times or ..read more

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I decided to wait a week after getting my 3GS to attempt jailbreaking it.  I wanted to be sure that I had a good feel for the device’s quirks before throwing any third-party software at it and creating more.  That being said, jailbreaking the 3GS turned out to be a pretty simple process. I did it on the mac, but it works just as well on the PC.

Grab the latest version of Itunes before you start and be sure you’re ..read more

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In a move that is sure to cause headaches amongst IT staff and Execs, Mastercard has decided to tighten the reigns further in their never ending quest to secure people’s credit card data.

By December 31, 2010 and on a going forward basis, all level 1 and 2 merchants must validate PCI DSS compliance via an annual onsite assessment conducted by a PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) certified Qualified Security Assessor (QSA).  Level 1 merchants who previously conducted onsite assessments ..read more

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Now that you’ve got your sleek little HP 2140 netbook, its time to blow away Windows XP and put something a bit snazzier on there.  I’ve toyed with OSX86 previously, and knew that most of the netbooks out there support it in one way or another, and many of them quite well. I had also read that Windows 7 played very nicely on these tiny computers, and it’s free for a few months, so why not?

Here’s how I made it ..read more

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I recently picked up a HP 2140 Mini Netbook as a present for my wife.  This little 1.6Ghz Atom powered netbook is the “business-class” edition of the popular HP Mini 1000 series netbooks.  While the 1000’s aremade primarily of black plastic, the 2140 has a beautiful brushed aluminum exterior, giving it a nice classy look.

Overall, this machine performs as you would expect from this popular class of notebooks.  The 1.6Ghz processor is fine at handling most basic tasks, as well ..read more

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In addition to all of the wonderful new features available on the new iphone os 3.0, there are over 40 security vulnerabilities that have been fixed. Some of these include this one which may pertain to Exchange admins out there:

Accepting an untrusted Exchange server certificate results in storing an exception on a per-hostname basis. On the next visit to an Exchange server contained in the exception list, its certificate is accepted with no prompt and validation. This may lead ..read more

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Not sure how I’ve missed this application previously on Microsoft’s website, but apparently they recently released a Facebook application for Windows Mobile. It gives you nice easy access to all the most important Facebook features- updating your status, reading the Feed, messaging, uploading videos and photos, reading others’ profiles, etc.,

After downloading the free application and loading it my BlackJack II, I found the interface to be nice and smooth, and exaclty what you’d expect from a Facebook application on your ..read more

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One of the great features in Windows Mobile is the ability to tether your device to your computer in order to piggy-back on your mobile devices internet connection. This works great in airports or coffee shops so you don’t have to pay for wi-fi usage. If you’re running Windows on your laptop and have ActiveSync installed, its pretty straightforward. However, if you’re running OSX, it can be a bit trickier to tether your WinMo device. These instructions were ..read more

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Every now and then one of your virtual server’s C:\ drive will get close to filling up. Windows 2003 and earlier don’t make it that easy to expand the size of the boot partition. Luckily, by using some built-in VMWare tools and a handy GParted Live CD we can still make this happen without reformatting.

First, shut down the virtual guest with the full hard drive. Once it’s shut down, commit any snapshots to disk by deleting all snapshots in the ..read more

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