A great number of public hotspots and internet cafes has appeared recently. It’s great to surf the net at public places, while drinking morning coffee or waiting for the airplane. But have you thought about security?

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5) Change one of your work days to a Saturday or Sunday. In most cases, traffic is lighter on the weekends, so you should get better gas mileage. And isn’t it great to have a day off during the week to take care of personal things that are sometimes difficult to do on the weekends.

13) Reduce your speed on the freeway. Did you know that most cars get their best gas mileage between 40-60 miles per hour? Those people that go flying down the freeway at 70-80 miles per hour are unnecessarily consuming more gasoline as well as putting people’s lives at risk. I used to be in favor of the legal speed limit being raised to 65 miles per hour or higher. But knowing the savings we can all achieve if we just decrease the average speed limit, I think it’s time we revisit going back to 55 miles per hour. I know this is probably going to be a hugely unpopular suggestion, but I feel it is important to make it anyway.

A MiFi – a MiFi is a cellphone without the phone or screen. Simply put, it’s a 3G modem with an onboard battery and enough operating system to attach to cellular and rebroadcast it via WiFi. So, even if your iPad is Wi-Fi only, you can have net access anywhere there is signal. This does suppose that you have an airtime contract for your MiFi but it’s when travelling that this really makes sense. When you arrive, simply buy a pre-pay or pay as you go contract from a local carrier and pop it into the MiFi. Now you have Internet access across your iPad, cellphone or even laptop. And you can share it with travelling colleagues or just bask in the glory of being the only one without massive data roaming bill when you get back!

A quality case – Somewhat further down the cool list, your iPad case protects not just your $500+ investment but also the data you have in it. Sure, it might be backed up but that’s no help if you’ve arrived at your meeting with a banana shaped iPad and no presentation. While cool, the Apple magnetic screen-cover-only cases aren’t up to the job of protecting an iPad that you might drop on tiles (check), sit on (check) or drive over (Che… long story, wasn’t me honest). I’ve yet to find a case for the 2nd and 3rd gen iPads that is as good as the Apple ‘moleskin’ for the iPad 1.

Telefunken XO iPad Pen – it’s not cheap but after you’ve gotten bored with the crayon-esque efforts of other vendors, treat yourself to the one iPad VPN pen that actually works. Kudos to Telefunken on the regular app updates that add functionality and enhance performance.

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Giganews has always led the industry with the longest retention. How much more will they continue to grow? No one knows but it has been growing daily for the last few years. Their retention is the same for all binary groups. They do not stack retention in the more popular binary newsgroups. They have the same for each group. Their text retention goes back even farther- several thousand days. If you are looking for an old discussion thread that you read 5+ years ago about old cars- chances are, that particular article is still there. As far as anyone knows, Giganews plans to hold their text articles indefinitely.

There are other suggestions I could make such as using public transportation or buying a fuel efficient car. Those should be pursued, but those are the standard answers and longer term solutions. Certainly we need to move in that direction for the long term, but given the recent dramatic rise in gasoline prices, out of necessity we need to take immediate action that will lead to lower prices in the short term while we also move towards long term solutions.

Here’s how to put videos on a PSP. It is a relatively easy process, and Sony should be commended for creating such an entertainment powerhouse. You can play videos from a memory stick, or play network videos from the Internet or a computer on your home network. If you have a VPN you can even play videos on your home PC or server when you’re anywhere in the world.

L2TP was built on an earlier protocol (PPTP) and wraps data in two layers, not just one. It does this by using UDP (which is faster than TCP), and something called a “datagram”. Since there are two layers of protection, you’ll have more security than you would if you used PPTP alone. When you connect to a VPN with your Android phone (usually with an app) you will have the choice of PPTP, L2TP and OpenVPN. When you choose L2TP for your VPN, you’ll be able to browse freely.