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Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Type2Phone turns your Mac into a Bluetooth keyboard for your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. Type2Phone running on the Mac will emulate a Bluetooth keyboard. Pair your iOS device with the Mac while Type2Phone is running. Now every character you type is funneled through to the iOS device. Type2Phone also allows for pasting text from the Mac to the iOS device. Every character that could by typed can also be pasted. Just hit cmd-shift-V. It also supports text selection and copy-paste operations on the iOS device. Navigate text using the arrow key. Hold the shift key while navigating to select text. Use the cmd-C, cmd-V shortcuts to trigger copy-paste operations. Now is the time to step up security: * Set up non-obvious recovery email address * Set up strong passwords: easy to remember, hard to guess Now use Type2Phone to key in those new passwords. Type2Phone has a “stealth mode” where characters you send to your iOS device are not displayed on your Mac. No one can l...

Posted in: Various 15 hours ago by Vince After investigating complaints from its users getting crazy amounts of spam, Dropbox has announced that emails and passwords stolen from third-party websites have been used to hack into existing Dropbox accounts. One of the breach?d accounts is a Dropbox employee’s and it happened to contain some project files with a number of Dropbox client email addresses. Hence the spam spree. To fight back, Dropbox will be introducing new security measures to protect its users from such attacks. Here are the future features the company plans to implement: Two-factor authentication – a way to optionally require two proofs of identity (such as your password and a temporary code sent to your phone) when signing in. (Coming in a few weeks)New automated mechanisms to help identify suspicious activity. We’ll continue to add more of these over time.A new page that lets you examine all active logins to your account.In some cases, we may require you to change your ...