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Peanut Butter Everyone says that peanut butter can be super-fattening and it has a lot of calories. BUT It’s not necessarily fattening: body fat is controlled by balancing calories. Because it’s very filling, a spoonful (90 calories) or two goes a long way. It’s also full of protein, Vitamin B and Folate. You should getRead more

In Part 2 we covered the four main security features that are common to these 4 smartphone OSs (iOS by Apple, Android by Google, Blackberry by RIM, and Symbian by Nokia). In this post, we’ll dig a little deeper on the classification of smartphone software installation models. There are three generic software installation models, depending on theRead more

As an administrator, developer, support technician, or a quality analyst who works with email or network solutions, you probably often face issues caused by a network component that fails randomly. For example, a DNS server could time out sporadically, or the SMTP server rejects recipients because it doesn’t feel like accepting them. So you startRead more

In Part 1 we covered how each of the 4 major smartphone OS vendors (iOS by Apple, Android by Google, Blackberry by RIM, and Symbian by Nokia) handle the security issues around distribution and installation of applications. In this post, I’ll dig a little deeper on the actual OS functions that need to be secured. ThereRead more

Before investing in an expensive tool to monitor the performance of your various applications, it’s important to know that Windows is equipped with many of the tools you need.  If the applications provide performance counters, the Performance Monitor utility makes it easy to keep track of dynamically changing statistics. I’ll use an example to illustrate:Read more