This week we are highlighting the book, Famous Firsts of Black Women, which features twenty-two outstanding Black women who have established themselves as ‘first’ in their respective profession and areas of expertise, such as civil rights, sports, education, politics, business, and the arts. The book highlights the lives of these…
Spotlight: NOMone Gesture Dotty for Android lets you trigger actions with custom gestures
From the maker of NOMone Resolution Changer comes another nifty power user app — Gesture Dotty. The premise is lean and simple enough. There’s a dot-like floating shortcut on your display. You tap on that and a black drawing pad drapes your screen. You use the pad to draw a…
Spotlight: BOCHS is a Pentium PC emulator for Android, brings on the retro cult
What’s a BOCHS? Well, in this case, it certainly has nothing to do with your uncle’s German power drill. It’s actually more of a Pentium PC emulator that can run a full-blown x86 operating system on your Android device. It all boils down to installing the application and some related…
Spotlight: Glextor is an Android app drawer replacement for max organization
Bored of Android’s default application drawer already? Fret not, there’s a handy application manager by the name of Glextor for you to try out. It’s an app that enables the organization of all the applications you have installed. Glextor has an app organizer with an auto-grouping feature. Based on Google…
Spotlight: Fontster is an open-source font installer for Android
Feel like changing the system font on your Android device? Fontster is an app for such business. It allows you to easily change (system-wide) the fonts on your Android device, all within a friendly Material UI. The trade-off is that Fonster requires a rooted device, but rooting is the gateway…
LG G Pad X 10.1 launches this week on AT&T, brings the old Snapdragon 800 back in spotlight
AT&T today announced a brand new tablet made by LG. Called G Pad X 10.1, the slate is similar to the G Pad II that LG will showcase later this week at IFA 2015. As its name suggests, the LG G Pad X 10.1 sports a 10.1 inch display (with…
Spotlight: Vurb lets you coordinate a night out using just one app, rather than nine
Is Vurb the one app to rule them all? Check this out — Vurb connects your apps to bring your favorite people, places, and things in one central hub. The idea here is to put an end to hopping between different apps. According to surveys taken by developers, planning a…
Spotlight: Fileseal is a user-friendly automatic file encryption app for Android
If you’re after a user-friendly file encryption app, consider Fileseal. This app lets you encrypt files on your Android device’s storage and automatically sync them with cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and Google Drive. Specifying a target folder means both existing and newly added files inside the folder and…
Career Spotlight: What I Do as an “Ethical Hacker”
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans You occasionally hear about major security vulnerabilities being discovered before they’re exploited, like the notorious Heartbleed bug last year. Security researchers work hard to weed out those dangerous flaws before they’re found by hackers of more malicious intent. This breed of…
Paris terrorism attacks spotlight multinational security exposures
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans in Paris earlier this month shocked the world and served notice to companies in the West the urgent need to ratchet up security for their employees. Risk and security consultants who assist U.S. multinational firms in anti-terrorism risk management say terrorism…
