Over the recent years, a lot of people have grown fond of blogs and have started blogging themselves. And yet, there are still quite a number of people who ask the question, “What is blogging?” 

I know the word blogging itself can sound a little odd, especially if this is your first time hearing it. You might even be confused as to why people seem so crazy about blogging. I mean, what is blogging anyway? 

Is it something everyone can do? Or is it something reserved only for the intellectuals and the computer geeks? Is it something that involves math? Or maybe even science? 

What is blogging? 

To begin with, blogging comes from the word blog. Blog, in turn, comes from the word Web log. Are you catching on now? Good. 

But in layman’s terms, a blog is an online journal. It is somewhat like a Web site except that it is more easily updated and contains an archive of entries written by the blogger. 

What does blogging do? 

Different bloggers have different purposes. Some blog to express their innermost thoughts. They treat their blogs like diaries. 

Others blog to share their knowledge about a certain subject. For example, a travel blog will contain the blogger’s adventures in different places or the places he or she wishes to feature. 

Some people blog as a way to earn extra income. Advertisers pay for blogs which have a lot of visitors. 

Who is allowed to blog? 

Anyone can blog. As long as you have access to a computer and the Internet, blogging is possible. Don’t be intimidated by professionals and self-proclaimed experts. Instead, try to interact with them using your own blog as a gate pass. 

Blogging helps you connect with people on a different level. Some even have a better chance to networking through blogging than through face to face encounters! 

You now have an overview of what blogging is. You no longer have to ask, “What is blogging?” again and receive strange looks. There’s still a lot more to discover about blogging and I hope you hang around long enough to learn all the answers.

It seems like its been forever since wardriving was used to map out the neighborhood wifi scene. I remember when statistics about mass wireless networks first started to emerge. I remember building antennas out of soup cans and a wire coat hanger. I remember having to build GPS drivers from source so Kismet could include coordinates in its output. I even remember cracking my first WEP network – it took me the better part of a week. It all seems like ancient history now. 

If that was forever ago, we must have come up with some new way to secure wireless networks. We must all be running high-end encryption and have everything locked down right from the factory. After all, wireless vendors know what can be done with a laptop and some free wireless utilities. Even non-techies can tell you the dangers of WEP and running default networks. If that's true – wardriving would probably be a waste of time these days. That's what I thought about one weekend, so I set out to get a glimpse on the current state of wireless security. 

I grabbed my Eee PC, fired up Kismet, hopped in the Jeep, and tore off across the countryside. After an hour of driving through the little beach town I live in, I had collected information on about 900 unique networks. Once I got back to the house, I fired up a shell and got to work analyzing the data. The spread of open, WEP, and WPA encrypted networks surprised me. I didn't think I would find almost 300 open networks in this little town. Add in the 345 WEP protected networks, and that's about 70% of total networks either completely open or protected with exceedingly crackable encryption. 

Next, I did analysis on the SSID's (the name of the network). This was also pretty interesting. Almost 10% of all networks had 'linksys' as their SSID. If they didn't change the default SSID, I can imagine they changed little else. A number of the networks had personal names as their SSID's (identity theft waiting to happen?). A few more had their street addresses as the network name. Some of the apartments and condos even had their apartment number worked in somehow. 

Another interesting thing I noticed was wireless used by businesses. Digging through the raw output – I came across a lot of networks with familiar names because they belonged to businesses in town. A large CNC and prototyping shop in town had an open wifi network. A few other smaller businesses had wireless networks with their name on it. I also came across a large amount of hidden networks when I drove through industrial areas – I can only assume that some more prodding would produce more business networks. The biggest shock to me was the local police station running WEP! At least if I ever got arrested I could email someone for bail money. 

It appears it's the same old sad state of wireless security out there. I don't expect general consumers to fret over the differences between WPA1 and WPA2, or how much overhead AES encryption has – but I expect businesses to know their risk. They should invest in a wireless penetration test or wireless security audit if they intend on rolling out wireless. Hire a professional to assess your physical surroundings for existing wireless networks you may not know about, and then have them help plan out implementation strategies with you. Wireless can be a great way to get some freedom from traditional networks, but all that freedom can come at paralyzing costs. A little planning and research can help slim down attack surfaces, and can help make casual wardriving a thing of the past.

It happens to the best of us; from time to time we lose data when a computer crashes or freezes, a hard drive becomes lost or corrupted, or a server goes down.

There can be many reasons for this – a power failure or bugs in the software; even criminal activity such as hacking or the propagation of viruses and other malware. Human error, such as accidental deletion of data can also wreak havoc. Studies have shown that around three quarters of all incidences of data loss are due to either human error or hardware failure.

Whatever the reason, when this happens, it is important to try and mount a data recovery operation. Data recovery is a process by which information is salvaged from secondary storage media that cannot be accessed by normal means.

Most forms of data recovery are based on a failure of the computer’s operating system and the solution is relatively simple – gain access to the system and copy the data that is required to another disk. Dealing with a failure of the hard disk itself is more complex and an attempt to recover the data may involve repairing the file system, or using techniques ranging from software-based recovery of corrupted data to replacing a damaged disk.

Most people lack the detailed technical knowledge that is required to perform all but the most basic data recovery, and rely on professional services offered by a number of companies. When doing so they want to know, above all, that those services will be reliable.

A good data recovery company will be well established with a list of testimonials from satisfied clients (particularly well known companies, academic experts and public bodies) and have a solid track record, although one should be wary of any that offer a 100 per cent success rate – no reputable professional can guarantee to recover all data every single time.

They will also offer a variety of services at different costs, again, depending on the form of the data loss. Some losses can be dealt with by the user, with a little advice, and the best companies provide this advice free of charge.

Furthermore, a good company will always be striving to improve its data recovery rates. The best now run research and development programmes, in conjunction with universities and IT companies, to increase their knowledge of how computer hardware and software can go wrong, and to minimise the chances of data loss occurring in the future.

Have you ever visited a website that promised to show you something fantastic or who claimed they had the best offer on a product that you have been dying to purchase only to get there and not be able to find what you were looking for amidst all of the other garbage that was on the site? Or worse yet, you get on the site but the page you are interested in won't load? The owner of the website in question is a victim of poor website management, which often falls under the purview of the web site hosting service. 

Most people do not have the capability of hosting their own website. This is something that requires a server that can support a large amount of information and handle a lot of traffic as well. Most people with websites depend on their web site hosting service to ensure that everything runs smoothly, that people can find and purchase their products, and that the system doesn't crash if the site suddenly sees a lot of traffic. There are a lot of web site hosting services that provide everything that a website owner needs, it is simply a matter of finding the right one. 

Choosing a web site hosting service should be a process. Choosing the first web hosting service that you find is not good business. There are literally thousands of web hosting services available to you, and it will do you and your business a lot of good to check out as many as you can stand. 

Naturally you are not going to be able to check every single web site hosting service available. You are going to have to narrow your search by determining what exactly you need. Some sites need the ability to stream video, but don't need to have a checkout option, while others will have hundreds of pictures of products that people can purchase. Perhaps you fall in one of these categories, or maybe you don't, regardless, you probably have something specific that you are going to need from your web hosting service. 

There are sites online that are dedicated to reviewing websites. Utilize these websites to narrow down your choices for your web site hosting service, otherwise you will be stuck in transition for a long time. The goal is to get your online business up and running, although you need to be careful, you also need to move quickly as well.

Tanbee Video Converter for Mac is an excellent Mac video converter software which can convert video formats from one to another with perfect output quality and high conversion speed for Mac OS X users. It supports all popular video formats including FLV, MKV, MOD, WMV, ASF, MPEG1, MPEG2, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, MOV, AVI, TOD, TS/TP (for HD Video), MP3, AMR and AC3. 

The output videos and audios can be put on PSP, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Blackberry, Zune, Creative Zen, iRiver, mobile phone or other popular digital devices for your enjoyment. Furthermore, you can merge/clip/split/crop videos, apply artistic effect, etc. to perfect output files. Just get video converted in your way with Tanbee Video Converter for Mac. 

This Mac video converter software lets you set video brightness, contrast, saturation, crop video, trim video/audio and even merge multiple files into one file. Batch conversion is also supported by this powerful Mac video converter. Convert videos on Mac OS X with Tanbee Video Converter for Mac and enjoy your colorful digital life! 

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