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Brian Forge is in his early 30s. He is a veteran, writer, DJ, musician, techie, and an all around nerd with a lust for life. He also maintains his own blog at http://brianforge.net

Phone Authentication Made Easy With TeleSign

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Security is one of the most important things that can be focused on and leveraged within any company. TeleSign offers many different products that are set utilize your phone to assist in the continuing fight against fraud, specializing in phone authentication. All of their products are fully designed to focus on scalability, deliverability, and reliability.  They specialize in large volume product and service roll-outs. Some of their clients include many different social networks, cloud services, payment processors, … Read more

How To Change Your Boot Order in BIOS

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Need to change the boot order on your computer? From time to time, we need to make sure our computers are booting from a source that is not our internal drive. This could be a recovery disc, a USB install of another OS, or even running another utility. Your computers BIOS may not be set to read from these by default or at all and now, that needs to change. No worries! This short article … Read more

Win a Copy of the Windows Password Recovery Tool

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There are a number of reasons you may need a tool or utility to recover and/or reset a password for Windows, whether it’s because you bought a computer and the person forgot to remove the password, you are doing repair on a computer, or you just haven’t used the specific computer in a long time getting around a Windows password can be annoying. Thankfully Windows Password Recovery Tool helps make it quick and painless to … Read more

Apple Device IDs Hacked by Anonymous

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  It appears Anonymous and/or Anonymous related teams are at it again. This time over 12 million Apple iPhone and iPad device identifiers from an FBI computer have been stolen. Specifically the AntiSec project, which is a joint project consisting of Anonymous and LulzSec members, are the ones behind it. An anonymous poster on Pastebin said the release was intended to highlight the FBI’s alleged tracking of Apple customers, on Monday. They also posted a … Read more

OUYA: The Next Evolution In Gaming

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  With rumors regarding the new X-Box “720” and the Playstation 4 popping up left and right, a bold move has been made. And it wasn’t made by one of the big box companies! A new product is on its way and is claiming “It’s time to upend console gaming.” I am referring, of course, to OUYA.   What is OUYA exactly? OUYA (pronounced OO-YAH) is a tiny box, powered by Android 4.0. This powerful … Read more

Rumor: Samsung Android Galaxy Camera

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It’s been an interesting time for Samsung. First, Samsung has helped skyrocket Android to a 61% market share, with 40% of these phones being from Samsung alone. And of course, there are the recent series of legal decisions being made in Korea and here in the US. It’s time for them to make waves again. According to GSMArena, this week Samsung will announce a new Android powered digital camera.   According to the rumors, the … Read more

Share Music and Videos Legally and Free With EmoPlayer

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If you are like me, you have a ton of different programs and sites for your media. These range from YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, etc. People also keep sharing these via Facebook. Sometimes it is a pain to swap between everything, pause one and visit the other, and then remember what you were doing after. Thanks to Emoplayer, your media and social networking can all be combined. This guy can add your local music and shared … Read more

Mac OS X Targeted By Malware Attack

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Some people over the years have been convinced to buy Apple products and computers solely because they think they are invulnerable to viruses, malware, spyware, etc.  Most of us in the know have learned and just plain know better. For those lulled in to a false sense of security that comes with that glowing apple logo, a reality check has come.  And its name is Morcut (also known as Crisis). The timing was almost perfect … Read more

YouTube Now Using Real Names For Comments

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Google has been making some big changes to YouTube recently. Some hate it, some love it. A huge one that is sure to get mixed reviews is their newest policy or wanting you to use your real name when posting comments to YouTube. Their theory? If you are held more accountable for your posts and comments you are less likely to act like a 13 year old kid who has slammed down a case of … Read more

Is Facebook Reading Your Messages?

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Recent reports have come to light letting us know Facebook is actually monitoring your chats and messages. You may think this is some move out of a B-rate cyber thriller or political blockbuster, but it’s not. Facebook and other social media sites are screening and monitoring your messages and chats using software that is reminiscent of the Carnivore program that the FBI began using back in 1997.   The software actively goes through and scans … Read more

How To Root Your AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3

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The wait is finally over and the initial rush has died. You finally got that coveted Samsung Galaxy S 3 from AT&T! I have had mine now for around 2 weeks and I am totally in love! It’s no wonder many people say that this little guy is slotted to be an iPhone killer. With its 1.5 GHz dual processor, 2 GB of RAM, and 4.8” Super AMOLED display capable of 1280×720 (306ppi) and 16 … Read more