Digital Cheat Sheet

We all know how easy it is to have one password for everything on the Internet. Sure, it would be so much safer to have multiple passwords completely separate from one another with no predictable format; ideally, it would just be a big jumble of characters that no one could ever crack. But that would be too much of a hassle, just as it would be to write down these horribly difficult passwords on a piece of paper and try to keep up with the piece of paper. For Mac users, that’s where software like 1Password comes in. 1Password helps you out by allowing you to create randomly generated passwords of a safety level you choose and access them all with only one master password--whatever you so desire. It can be dense and more complex than something used to access data at the Pentagon, or it can be as simple as “puppy”, and as long as no one has any access to your 1Password data & your master password, your many & varied site passwords will be safely stored away for the next time you need them.

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Every now and again, a user needs to break free of web interfaces for e-mail and use dedicated, standalone clients. There is a sea of alternatives, ranging from the small and free to the powerful and costly. Postbox is one of these alternatives, competing with applications the like of Micosoft Outlook/Outlook Express/Windows Live Mail, Apple’s Mail, Mozilla’s Thunderbird, and other popular e-mail clients. It is based on Mozilla’s Thunderbird client and uses the very same engine that has proven itself time and time again for Mozilla, but curiously Postbox is only available for Windows and OS X--no Linux version is available.

Because it is based on Thunderbird--a wise choice if we may say so, Postbox inherits some already great features. The Postbox team took it one step farther and made using those features feel like a more polished experience. Included in this extra polish is rudimentary support for Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed accounts, allowing one to quickly post updates to any of the services with a few clicks of the mouse. Also worth noting are a more advanced search engine visible throughout the program (especially when composing new messages), a slightly tweaked to-do list function that makes it easier to send an e-mail to yourself for simple reminders, what feels like an optimization of the raw power and performance within the program, and a set of interfaces that mesh better with the corresponding operating system on which the program is running.

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More likely than not when you have been surfing the internet you have come across somebody’s “Blog”. A blog can take a variety of forms including articles, discussions, photography, videos, and more. Most blogs dedicate themselves to typing up a few words and occasionally attaching a Youtube video to the post. The biggest problem I have found with blogging is that most of the time it requires you to log unto your blog’s webpage, start a new article, and type in the web browser. The only problem is that is not the more ideal solution if you are constantly on the go. 

The bread and butter of any kind of college experience is writing papers. Some get off with relatively few, but more often than not people end up writing dozens of papers throughout their time in school. Most essay prompts are as stated "the student is to write: 'x' number of pages in 12-size, type Times New Roman font, double-spaced". Occasionally some teachers will deviate from the formula, but more often than not that is the standard and accepted font, but why?

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Something every college student learns from college is that money management is everything whether it be buying the books for your next class or being about to go and eat with your friends. Since many college students rely on credit or debit cards for the majority of their transactions keeping an up to date register could be a matter of eating or not. I suggest everybody keeping an active bank register, but sometimes it is just hard to remember and other times the managing of one is complicated and time consuming.

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