Glitter nail polish can protect your laptop's data (Wired UK)

Glitter nail polish can protect your laptop's data (Wired UK): "If you're traveling overseas, across borders or anywhere you're afraid your laptop or other equipment might be tampered with or examined, you've got a new secret weapon to improve security. Glitter nail polish.

Don't laugh. It works.

Security researchers Eric Michaud and Ryan Lackey, making a presentation at the Chaos Communication Congress on Monday, highlighted the power of nail polish -- along with metallic paints and even crappy stickers -- to help people know when their machines have been physically tampered with and potentially compromised."

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5 Terrible Cellular Carrier Practices That Are Changing

5 Terrible Cellular Carrier Practices That Are Changing: "We’ve written about all the different ways cellular carriers are gouging you, from long, expensive contracts to $22,000 bills for roaming data. Believe it or not, some of these terrible practices are actually changing.

Some of these examples are from Canada. If you live in the US or elsewhere and are frustrated with your own cellular carriers, seeing what Canadian cellular carriers get away with will make you appreciate your own local carriers."

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NTFS or FAT32: Choosing the Best File System for an Internal SSD Data Partition

NTFS or FAT32: Choosing the Best File System for an Internal SSD Data Partition: "When it comes to taking care of your SSD and valuable data, would it be better to use NTFS or FAT32 for the file system on an internal data partition? Today’s post looks at the ‘pros and cons’ of choosing the best file system to use.

Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites."

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How to Reset the Windows 8.x Start Screen to the Default Tiles

How to Reset the Windows 8.x Start Screen to the Default Tiles: "If you are using Windows 8.x for any amount of time, you will quickly get to the point where your Start Screen becomes a giant mess of nonsense tiles. Want to reset them to default? It’s easy!

Just open up the Desktop view, pull up an Explorer window, and then paste the following into the address bar:"

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5 Important Events That Changed Social Media This Year

5 Important Events That Changed Social Media This Year: "2013 saw a ton of significant changes to the social media landscape. Facebook introduced hashtags, in a clear bid to outdo its main competition. It also introduced the ability to properly search the social network with its Graph Search.
A year after Facebook, Twitter had its own big IPO moment, debuting at $26 and closing at $44.90 a share, on its first day trading day."

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