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Strong Passwords More and more we work on our password attack use upper case, use lower case, use symbols, use numbers, don't use dictionary words and on and on. How much is enough to cover your assets and keep you out of trouble? Good page to get the jest of it is GRC's | Password...

Wireless Security Not to be short sighted but if you have a WiFi only iPad and no WiFi available the unit is isolated and cannot use any of the WiFi apps, no email, no web, no nothing. Even if you use an AP at your location for in house stuff if it is WAP secure and no one makes the SSID and...

Safety Password Storage Have to go back to LastPass again, cross platform, single password, will create passwords for you and store them in it's database. Can be used on or off line. Program stores anything you need to store and encrypts it for you before it is saved local or online so you...

Hang in there with the cloud stuff as we branch out to other machines and leave sneaker net further behind it can be the saving grace. I have 1 pc, 1 laptop, 1 ipad and an Android phone and to often I need a picture, document or other snippet of info and something like Dropbox, Evernote or other...

iPad Charging On the outside chance you have an Asus motherboard there is a program from Asus called Ai Charger. Google Ai Charger and you will find it, download, install and run. When you attach your iPad to your PC it will sync and charge (and tell you it is charging) at about the same rate...

Bluetooth Headset I currently use an oddball Bluetooth headset just as you have described, mostly with my iPhone for podcasts and phone calls but will ditch the phone (either turn it off or turn bluetooth off) pair it with my iPad and listen to music or podcasts. I am not a Skype user and have...

JPG Photo (not) From reading the posts I would say the photo is a .png Windows since XP has an option in the folders section that "hide known file extensions". You can name a file anything and have any extension listed in the name (photo.jpeg, photo.gif, photo.png or even photo.doc) those names...

Simple Spreadsheets Have you looked at Google Apps, one is spreadsheet and being online lets you work on it from any connected machine. I am just getting stated with it and you can create online or push one up to the cloud an existing one. It is also capable of creating online forms that fill...

Public Hotspots I've got to disagree with the previous poster, as I understand it if the AP is configured WPA even though all users have the same password they cannot see each others traffic. WPA speck calls for the password to be hashed with the id of the client system and the key is created...

Haven't tried on an iPad but I setup 2 laptops a couple of years ago for clients that had RR Email and it's tough. To stop spam they do not allow you to send email through there servers from outside of their network (such as while on 3-g or hotspot wifi). I don't remember it being hard to...

We have been having the same discussion just today. Your iPad has a metal case that will conduct (pull) heat from your body and therefore feel cold. In the house or apartment walk barefoot from a room with carpet to another with wood or tile and notice how much colder the hard floor feels than...

Looks like you need to enlist a slightly more tech savvy friend, the 169.254.?.? Is not a valid address and is just a filler that most IP stacks use when they fail to get an address. Something in your iPad to router connection is not all it should be, you mentioned it wasn't very but dad says it...

LastPass Have a look at LastPass it will remember your account info and enter it for the website. It will also work for other sites and is very secure. Rainman

+ 1 LastPass Great little program and from what Steve Giubson said about it on Security Now I upped to the dollar a month plan. Works across the board Windows, Mac, Linux and iPad and as long as you start out with one good password your secrets will stay your secrets as no one has access to...