by Joseph Forbes | Apr 28, 2013 | Data Recovery, HARDWARE, Technical Support
Russell Chozick owns a small company in Austin. TX, called Flashback Data that recovers data from messed-up hard drives. And SSDs and Flash memory, too. How badly damaged does a drive have to be to defeat Russell and his crew? Apparently, smashed to bits. Not long aqo...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 27, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
For many customers, cable may be getting even more expensive. A new FCC ruling lets cable providers require customers to rent set-top boxes for their basic tiers (including local stations). With HD boxes running around $10 a month for each TV and using more power than...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 26, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
The iPhone has a pretty beautiful home screen, but it looks the same as every other iPhone out there. If you want a phone that’s truly yours, here’s how to customize the look of your home screen from top to bottom. Note that for all the tweaks below,...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 26, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the on-my-own dept. There are rumblings around this week’s OpenStack conference that companies are moving away from AWS, ready to ditch their training wheels and build their own private clouds. Inbound marketing services company HubSpot is the latest to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 25, 2013 | Cloud Apps, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Web Hosting
from the protect-ya-neck dept. On Friday Linode announced a precautionary password reset due to an attack despite claiming that they were not compromised. The attacker has claimed otherwise, claiming to have obtained card numbers and password hashes. Password hashes,...
