Client VPN vs. Site-to-Site VPN AWS has two different kinds of VPN available for you to use. The first, and simplest, is the Client VPN. This is a fully managed elastic VPN service based on OpenVPN. Combined with an OpenVPN enabled client device, this allows users to access your AWS infrastructure from anywhere as if they were in the network itself. This allows your employees to connect directly to servers in private subnets, such as database servers you’d rather not leave web-facing....

With an Ubuntu Live CD, this is a simple process – the versatile tool dd can do this for us right out of the box. We’ve used dd to clone a hard drive before. Making a drive image is very similar, except instead of copying data from one hard drive to another, we copy from a hard drive to a file. Drive images are more flexible, as you can do what you please with the data once you’ve pulled it off the source drive....

Open Control Panel and select Power Options, then on the left side click on Choose what the power button does. Then click on the dropdown box and select Do Nothing from the menu and click on Save changes. From the dropdown list you can also select Shutdown, Sleep or Hibernate. But, if you are annoyed when you accidently hit the button and it shuts down, choosing Do Nothing will keep it running....

Note: Works with Windows XP, Vista, & 7. The software author also notes on his website that you can manage multiple recycle bins located on the same hard disk from whichever Windows system you are currently logged in to. Using RecycleBinEx The program is very easy to work with and when started you will be able to view the current contents of the recycle bin as seen here. Notice that each item specifically shows the time that it was deleted....

Installation & Setup As you are installing One Number you will need to click on “Install” in the confirmation message window to finish adding it to Chrome. As soon as the installation has finished you will see your new “Toolbar Button” and a short extension management message. Notice that there is already an “Unread Count Number” visible with the “Toolbar Button”. To make certain that you have the most accurate “Unread Count” you will need to go into the “Options” first thing....

Setting Up & Using WeatherBar To get started unzip the following files, place them in an appropriate “Program Files Folder”, and create a shortcut. When you start WeatherBar for the first time you will be presented with the following window and a random/default location. To get WeatherBar set up for your location there are only two settings to adjust (using the “Pencil & Gear Buttons”). Clicking on the “Pencil Button” will open up this small window…enter the name of your location and click “OK”....

OneDrive is one of the best cloud storage services around, with apps on all major platforms (except Linux) and Office app integration. During the company’s Ignite event, Microsoft revealed new features coming to OneDrive. First, Microsoft is working on offline capabilities for the OneDrive web app, dubbed “Project Nucleus.” OneDrive on the web will eventually support Files On-Demand and other features in the current desktop client, with the ability to keep files saved locally without downloading and re-uploading (or using the desktop app)....

Outlook Social Connector (OSC) allows you to sync your online social networks of friends and colleagues to your Outlook Inbox. Right now the LinkedIn connector is ready to be tested, and allows you to organize your LinkedIn contacts from within Outlook. You can actually use the OSC and Linked in with Office 2007 and 2003 –However we’ve only been able to test it in Outlook 2010 and 2007. Note: Only 32-bit Outlook is currently supported, but they advise a 64-bit version will be arriving soon....

Note: There is an Internet Explorer version available at the extension homepage. Before Usually when you select text and images in a webpage you only have one choice for copying both…which means getting all that “wonderful” formatting along with them. And when you paste it you either have to “run” it through Notepad first to remove the formatting, paste as special, or simply accept the formatting. There has to be a better way…...

Getting Started During the install process you will be asked if you would like to have a “Desktop Shortcut” set up and if you would like to have Scribbly start immediately after installation. Notice that the “Installation Location” points towards “Program Files” but does show a folder for the app itself…though it is your choice you should go ahead and designate/create a new folder for Scribbly. Note: Scribbly requires Adobe AIR (link provided at bottom of article)....

Install Connector After you’ve installed Windows Home Server (WHS) you’ve probably noticed a message pop up when you start Windows Media Center (WMC). Just click Ok to that message, you don’t need to set it up right away unless you want to. We know we can set it up from the Start menu at any time. Here we take a look at installing it on Windows 7 Home Premium. Open the Start menu and click on Windows Media Center Connector as shown here....

One of the many struggles of developing applications for a mobile audience is testing your app—with so many different devices, you’re usually limited to how many you have on hand. AWS DeviceFarm makes this process easier. What Is DeviceFarm? The concept of DeviceFarm is fairly simple. AWS spends the money to buy a bunch of devices (over 2,500 are in their library, currently), and rents them out whenever someone needs to use them....

After reports began arising of a possible security breach forcing Uber to shut down several internal communication channels and engineering systems, Uber confirmed on Twitter that it was currently responding to a “cybersecurity incident.” The company is working with law enforcement to resolve the situation, and it will post more information about the issue as it becomes available. As per current reports, a hacker managed to get access to the Slack account of an Uber employee and sent a message to other Uber employees announcing that there has been a data breach....

How Much Will I Save? If we’re suggesting you buy something to save money, it’s only reasonable you would want to know exactly how much money you’re going to save, no? We can’t tell you how much money you’re going to save because every device, setup, and use case is different, but we can tell you how to calculate it and how much your devices are costing you in wasted “phantom loads....

GraphQL is a query language and runtime resolver for APIs, used to bring more structure to services that work with complex data. With GraphQL, clients can request only the data they need, and nothing more. The Difference Is Who Sets the Schema Traditional REST APIs involve an API server that responds to requests with structured data, usually in the form of JSON. If you make a GET request to api....

Obviously, nobody plans for downtime. But problems are inevitable, and if you don’t have a plan in place to deal with them immediately and automatically, you’re going to lose revenue when your services go down. High Availability will help you plan for the worst-case scenarios. What Is High Availability? High Availability (HA) is the practice of minimizing all server downtime, ideally down to zero. It incorporates many techniques, such as auto-scaling, real-time monitoring, and automated blue/green update deployments....

Just-In-Time compilation, or JIT, is a technique used by runtime interpreters for languages like JavaScript, C#, and Java to bring execution speeds closer to the native performance offered by precompiled binary languages like C++. Compilers vs. Interpreters Computers don’t know how to execute high-level programming languages like C++, at least not directly. In order to translate human-readable code into something your CPU can run, it must be converted. A computer usually does this through one of two methods—compilation or interpretation....

JavaScript is no longer the only language that can be run natively in browsers. WebAssembly is set to revolutionize the way you code for the web, allowing native apps to be ported to the browser with near-native performance. What Exactly Is WebAssembly? JavaScript is a fully interpreted language. When you connect to a website, they send over the JavaScript code for you to execute. Usually it’s minified (white spaces and line breaks are removed to save space), but you can open up the Chrome dev tools and read the source code directly....

Are you confused by the barrage of video cables available today? Let’s take a look at the most important video cables today, HDMI and DVI, and see what’s the differences between the two. RELATED: Do You Really Need to Buy Expensive Cables? A decade ago, it was much easier to figure out how to get your TV connected to your devices, especially since most people only had a VCR. Our screens were smaller, the quality was worse, but the world was simpler....

Google announced the new domain name format earlier this year, but starting today, registrations are open to the public. A few companies already spent a lot of money to be among the first with the new TLD, such as hike.rsvp for private walking tours in San Francisco, and party.rsvp for the event-planning platform Partiful. Before you jump at the chance to register a domain for your next party or startup company, keep in mind that pricing is still in the “Early Access Program....