Here is an article you should pay attention to. This article provides links to Firefox plugins that help prevent you from accidently stumbling upon a site that will try to entice you to giving away personal information that could lead to identity theft and fraud. If you do not have firefox, I recommend that you [...]
Read More...First there were static pages, then there was multimedia, then there were wikis and web2.0 collaboration. Now there are Pipes. A new service from Yahoo, allows anyone to mix and mash content from a variety of sources. From the BBC: Pipes, lets you take a data feed such as the result of a web search, [...]
Read More...Yesterday, Microsoft released Vista. Vista is great and all, but by adopting to Microsoft’s software, you are allowing yourself to be a subject of their license. When you install any program do you read the License agreement? Linux offers the freedom to install what you want and run what you want without a “big brother” [...]
Read More...Today is the launch of Windows Vista. I am sure you are all scurrying out there to get your copy. What no? hmmmm.. Early returns are that not a lot of people stayed up overnight waiting in the snow outside the local Bestbuy either. Ultimately, Vista will pervade our lives, but it is not the [...]
Read More...Windows Visa was released today. Without a roar. Here are some videos from CBS news: CBS takes a look at Vista. A few videos.read more | digg story
Read More...Here is a good article on how to spot where you might have your email read by someone else! Top 10 Places Your Email Can Be Intercepted The Internet has radically changed the way we communicate with each other. Email is obviously an extremely valuable and ubiquitous form of communication, but with this technology comes [...]
Read More...Here is an article that dispells some of the myths of TV and Movies about programmers. If you believe that programmers can watch scrolling code, have to be teens or a few keystrokes will recover a blurred image, read ahead… What code DOESNT do in real life that it does in the movies Matthew Inman [...]
Read More...After posting previously about web based apps, I found this article that highlights the commitment of a former Microsoft Exec to web based applications: Are Web-based applications the way of the future? A lot of people seem to think so–including the former head of development at Microsoft. Next month Paul Maritz, once third in command [...]
Read More...I am starting to realize that without knowing it, I am usually tapped into things new and forthcoming in the Information Technology world. I switched to gmail a while ago and now I am realizing that Google is on the way of being a web based application provider. They aren’t the only one’s. Pretty soon [...]
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