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The 7 Must-Have Apps for iOS4

Whether you’re planning on camping out in front of Best Buy or couldn’t care less about the release of some flashy new Apple device, you probably aren’t clueless about the upcoming release of the iPhone 4.0—after all, it’s pretty hard … Continue reading

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The Evo Versus iPhone Showdown for Smartphone Domination

Thanks to Google I/O, we recently got our hands on the flashy new HTC EVO, a 4G Android phone that will be available on the Sprint network on June 4th.  Being mobile fanatics, our first instinct was, of course, to … Continue reading

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Securing Remote Desktop with SSL

Good article on WindowSecurity.com about securing RDP using SSL. Important for PCI Compliance & better security in general. Note that if you already have an SSL certificate from GeoTrust, etc. you can just use that certificate instead of creating a … Continue reading

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Installing Webmin on Godaddy VDS

If you want a better administrative panel on your GoDaddy VDS/VPS, and you have PHP5 installed, you can install WebMin. SSH into your box using PuTTY. First we want to install Perl’s Net::SSL library, which allows Webmin to run under … Continue reading

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HTTP Compression in IIS

Ok ok, you want to compress your ASPX files in IIS, but you don’t want to do it for every site, and you want to exclude certain directories. You don’t want to edit the metabase by hand, either. No problem! … Continue reading

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