Showing posts with label General. Show all posts
Showing posts with label General. Show all posts

Thursday, August 16, 2012

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.


Tuesday, July 17, 2012

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/
































Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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”

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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: