This morning, at 7am, over 30 geeks left from Fort Lauderdale Beach for Austin, TX.

Over the next 4 hours, everyone who had an idea pitched it to the rest of the bus- 17 in total.

By the time we left the Turkey Lake rest stop, just north of Orlando, we were down to our [...]

In this final post about getting your tech ready for SxSW, I’ve got 2 final pieces of advice.

Don’t store your passwords locally.  Use a cloud-based password manager like LastPass which keeps an encrypted copy that you can only access locally via password.  They even have apps for Blackberry, Android, and iPhone. Absolute worst case [...]

Security/Protection

Backing up your data is great, but what if you want to get your hardware back, or at the very least, insure that whomever has it can’t get to your valuable data.

Laptops TrueCrypt This is, by far, the tech community’s favorite encryption software.  Use it to encrypt your entire computer so [...]

We’re only a few days away from the largest interactive conference in the country.  Hundreds of geeks will all be gathered in one place, and it’s not the kind of place you want to be losing your tech.  But, since it could happen to any of us, here are some tips to help get your [...]