Curt Sahd

The days of a traditional 8 to 5 job being the only source of income are becoming a thing of the past with the advent of online advertising / affiliate…

If you haven't yet heard of Telegram, now you have 🙂 Telegram is a rapidly growing cross platform messaging app with support on Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows, Mac, Linux…

It has been a very tumultuous two weeks for the cyber-security community since the WannaCry attack plagued users across the globe. Its clever use of a Windows loophole is unparalleled…

Ever since Microsoft took over Skype in 2011, their security record hasnt been looking any more secure than before the acquisition. Considering that from July 1st Ubuntu users will not…

According to Wikipedia, Shanzhai is defined as the counterfeit of consumer goods, including imitation and trademark infringing brands and/or particularly electronics, in China. Here in southern Africa, we refer to…

With each new generation of wireless networks, faster speeds and more functionality have been delivered to our smartphones. The first mobile phones operated on 1G, text messages and USSD only…

There are a couple of really neat methods to check whether a String is contained in Charset in the java.nio.charset package. The only problem with this is that when the…

If you'd like to see what has changed in a particular file prior to committing you can run the following command: git diff fileName

This is a commonly asked question and yet sometimes poorly answered, so here's the long and the short. Google AdWords Google AdWords allows you to create advertisements which appear in…

From time to time you might receive the following error when trying to install something: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock To fix this you can run the following command: sudo…