Using Strong(er) Passwords

While we visit the Internet, the need to Login/Register pops up constantly. Keeping us with the choice of choosing user-names and passwords. Many of us register always with the same user-name, and to make matters worse, many also use only a hand full of passwords, or even practice the "one fit all" dogma. Internet Security is serious business! I hope the following (far from complete) guide lines will benefit your digital security.

Customize FireFox start-up

As we all know, you can start up Firefox with different settings, blank page, home page .... but you can also open several tabs on start up.

 Example: open one tab with your dash, second tab with your favourite news site, third tab with Google search page.

Your start-up setting would then look like:

 about:newtab|http://www.bbc.com/news/|https://www.google.com/

ARCHOS 70 IT 250Gb: Touchscreen &/or System slow or not responsive

The ARCHOS 70 Internet Tablet 250Gb is a wonderful system, but I found it to have some issues.

One particular issue that has caused me grieve, is the touchscreen; it seems not responsive or very slow responding at times, and sometimes completely off calibration. Using the in system calibration, seems not to do much. Sometimes I had to hold my finger up to 10 seconds on the back button to get a response.

The easy way to get rid of this is repairing the calibration in the “Recovery start-up”

ZTE P729V San Francisco aka Blade: Poor WiFi Reception

If you happen to notice that your ZTE P729V San Francisco GSM or Blade (in USA) has a very weak and unstable WiFi reception, you are not alone.

Although in general pretty pleased with the device, the WiFi was not stable and had a very very poor reception. Less than 1m /3ft away from the router resulted in less than 2 bars. (<50%) 

This is what I did to improve the WiFi reception: