Five awesome Wi-Fi travel tips

Summer is in full swing and chances are you’re bringing your laptop with you while traveling — be it a road trip with the family, up to the cottage for a little R&R or on a business trip to the U.S. Either way, you’ll need to protect your computer data from cyber-snoops and Symantec, the makers of Norton security products, is offering these five great travel tips.

Video: Radiotracker brings music to you

In case you missed our review of Audial's awesome Radiotracker software -- which can scour the Net and record music based on your personal tastes -- check out this short video that walks you through its key features.

How to strip audio from a video file

You downloaded a hot music video or bootleg concert of your favourite band and would love to listen to it on your MP3 player. Problem is, a video might not play on a your MP3 player. Are you out of luck? Nope. Here I'll show you a free program that does the trick.

How to delete (not deactivate) your Facebook account

In case you haven't heard the news, Canada's privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, has some strong words for Facebook on its privacy practices (or lack thereof). Here we address one of her concerns.

Video: Canada's first netbook with integrated HSPA

A deal between HP, Rogers and Best Buy lets you pick up a $299 HP MIni 110 netbook (with 2-year data plan). This informal video post talks about why built-in 3.5G high-speed connectivity is appealing and also covers the key specs of the netbook, too.

Video: A look at Toronto's 'Gelaskins' products

Add some personality to your tech products with Gelaskins, a series of high-quality stick-on designs for your laptops, iPods, smartphones and gaming devices. We look at a few examples in this video blog post (apologies for some windy moments on the microphone!). Enjoy!

Psst! Access Yahoo! Mail in Outlook or Outlook Express (for free)

Those who use a POP3 email client, such as Outlook or Outlook Express are probably aware you can't access your Yahoo! Mail account unless you purchase the $20/year Yahoo! Mail Plus plan. Right? Wrong. Here's a free solution to get around this obstacle.

Live from "Norton Cyber Crime Day"

Sync is here in New York City for a Symantec-hosted "Norton 2010: State of Consumer Security," a behind-the-scenes look at the cybercrime landscape today. I think you'll find it interesting, so I'll be blogging from the conference. Have a peek!

New tool reminds you to attach files to email

Stop me if this sounds familiar. You type up a long email to a colleague, family member or friend and say something like "see attached for that photo" (or document, spreadsheet, presentation, or whatever) but then you click Send before remembering to attach the file? A new tool helps avoid this embarrassing but common mistake.

Free, online OCR image-to-text converter works like a charm

Have you ever received a document, such as a PDF or JPG and wanted to convert it to text? As a journalist, this happens to me a lot because I prefer the document -- such as a press release -- to be editable (such as a Word doc). I found a free site that will do the conversion for you.