TOR Project: Stop using Windows, disable JavaScript

5 free Linux text editors for programming and word processing

Bosses without borders: Essential tools for managing remote workers

ITworld Today

August 06, 2013

TOR Project: Stop using Windows, disable JavaScript

The TOR Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined the main advantages of the privacy-centered network.

Issue highlights

1. 5 free Linux text editors for programming and word processing

2. Bosses without borders: Essential tools for managing remote workers

3. Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post for $250M

4. Defending Feedly Pro's pricing

5. NASA celebrates Curiosity's first year on Mars with this highlight reel

6. Apple to shrink some iCloud accounts by 20GB

7. How to make an Android spy phone

8. SURVEY: Share your opinions & enter to win $500

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5 free Linux text editors for programming and word processing

A programmer looks at the current versions of five well-known text editors and offers his take on how well they perform. READ MORE

Bosses without borders: Essential tools for managing remote workers

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Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post for $250M

Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has announced a surprise plan to buy The Washington Post for $250 million in cash. READ MORE

Defending Feedly Pro's pricing

RSS company Feedly announced Pro pricing for it's Feedly Cloud service over the weekend and offered a limited number of Lifetime memberships. Those sold out quickly but tech bloggers are beating up Feedly on price. READ MORE

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NASA celebrates Curiosity's first year on Mars with this highlight reel

Today marks one year since NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars in a process that required the car-sized robot to endure "seven minutes of terror." To commemorate the occasion, NASA has put together a short video entitled "Twelve Months in Two Minutes; Curiosity's first year on Mars." READ MORE

Apple to shrink some iCloud accounts by 20GB

Apple has warned some long-time users of its iCloud online storage and syncing service that the free 20GB of storage given them two years ago will disappear at the end of September. READ MORE

How to make an Android spy phone

Injecting malicious code into legitimate Android mobile applications can turn smartphones into spyphones with little effort, which could pose a problem for businesses that support BYOD programs, a researcher told the Black Hat security conference. READ MORE

SURVEY: Share your opinions & enter to win $500

Got 10 minutes? Take this brief survey about your involvement with and interest in various technology categories and enter for a chance to win $500. READ MORE

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The Five Fundamentals of Virtual Server Protection

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