Zack didn’t like computers.
At age 3, he was diagnosed with severe autism. His parents decided to send him to a specialized school, where he could get one-on-one attention. It was there that he was first introduced to computers. [...]
Dude, you’re getting a summons
June 2, 2008 Leave a Comment
Dell, the personal computer giant was slapped in mid-May with a lawsuit from the state of New York for “engaging in bait and switch financing tactics and failing to provide their customers with adequate customer service.” The lawsuit, filed by New York State Attorney General, Andrew M. Cuomo, accuses Dell and its money arm, Dell [...]
Is your ISP messing with your P2P — and lying to you about it?
May 26, 2008 Leave a Comment
Germany’s Max Planck Institute has recently done testing that illustrates practices that cable Internet users have suspected for some time now — major US Cable ISPs, Comcast and Cox, are blocking peer-to-peer network patterns. The Institute, spurred on by a CNET report showing that Comcast defended its blocking of BitTorrent P2P traffic to the FCC [...]
McAfee identifies “Downloader-UA.h,” first medium risk malware in three years
May 6, 2008 Leave a Comment
McAfee Avert Labs reported Tuesday the most significant malware outbreak in three years with more than 500,000 detections of a Trojan horse they’re calling “Downloader-UA.h,” which is spreading by masquerading as a media file. “The malicious MP3 music or MPEG video files have appeared on popular file-sharing services such as Limewire and eDonkey,” Avert Labs [...]
iTunes upstages Wal-Mart as top music retailer
April 4, 2008 Leave a Comment
Apple proudly boasted on Thursday that their highly successful iTunes Store has passed Wal-Mart as the top music retailer in the US. iTunes has sold over four billion songs to over 50 million customers since opening in 2003. “We launched iTunes less than five years ago, and it has now become the number one music [...]
WordPress 2.5 RC2 available
March 26, 2008 Leave a Comment
The WordPress Development Blog announced Wednesday that the second release candidate for the upcoming WordPress 2.5 is available for immediate download. The developers also release a video screencast as a sneak peak of what users can expect with 2.5. “2.5 is coming along thanks to the fantastic feedback you guys provided on RC1 (over 580 [...]
Safari 3.1 launched
March 18, 2008 Leave a Comment
Apple announced Tuesday that Safari 3.1 has been released for Mac and Windows systems. “Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2,” Apple said in a statement. “Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers, and is the first browser to support [...]
IOGEAR launches PCPortal
March 10, 2008 4 Comments
IOGEAR has released a hardware-based virtual desktop solution that lets users access their computers from any Internet connection without the need for managing and configuring software. The PCPortal also allows users and IT pros to connect to a cluster of machines by interfacing the device with a KVM switch. “In the event a computer is [...]
The MacGyver crack
Feb. 22, 2008 Leave a Comment
Take a seven dollar can of compressed air from any office supply store. Flip it over, and spray its liquid nitrogen on a computer’s DRAM, or digital random access memory. Reboot the computer, or even extract the DRAM chip and clone it, then run a few relatively simple programs. Nothing that would defeat an intermediate [...]
Mozilla Messaging opens shop
Feb. 18, 2008 Leave a Comment
Mozilla Messaging, the new mail focused subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, announced Monday that it has begun operations. Mozilla Messaging will initially work towards developing Thunderbird 3, which Mozilla says will “deliver significant improvements, notably integrated calendaring, better search and enhancements to the overall user experience.” Like the free, open source web browser Firefox, [...]
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion
Feb. 1, 2008 Leave a Comment
Microsoft announced Friday their decision to offer to buy Yahoo!, taking all outstanding shares for $31 each in what would be a monster $44.6 billion deal. It would be a 62 percent bonus to shareholders holding a stock valued at under $20 Thursday. Yahoo’s stock soared in early trading Friday, up over 50 percent at [...]
Our take on the MacBook Air
Feb. 1, 2008 2 Comments
There’s been a lot of talk about Apple’s latest laptop the MacBook Air, and a lot of this talk seems to be by people who aren’t quite clear on the concept and target market segment. First announced in the middle of January, the Air is ultra-thin, lightweight, and has a seeming dearth of standard features- [...]
MySpace page sends fake XP update
Jan. 11, 2008 1 Comment
McAfee Avert Labs announced Friday a Trojan horse attack disguised as a Microsoft update on a particular MySpace profile. Attackers send friend requests to the victim MySpace users. Clicking on the person’s picture or name link loads a profile page with what looks like a legitimate Windows Automatic Updates pop-up box. When the user clicks [...]
DOJ serves karma, indictments to spammers
Jan. 3, 2008 Leave a Comment
On Thursday, some good news hit the battered lungs of a billion junk email filters like pure oxygen: Eleven of the world’s most prolific spammers — nine of whom live in the U.S. — were indicted by the Department of Justice. According to papers unsealed in Detroit, the electronic highwaymen, facing a 41-count indictment, are [...]
deskUNPDF Professional
Dec. 31, 2007 Leave a Comment
When it comes to converting PDFs to word documents for editing, your software choice options are very limited. Docudesk, a company, which specializes in PDF software solutions, announced it’s deskUNPDF Professional that essentially converts PDF’s into various other formats like spreadsheets, websites and various image formats. Formats include: Open Document Format (.ODT), Excel (.XLS), Comma [...]
Worm found on Google Orkut
Dec. 20, 2007 Leave a Comment
Almost 400,000 members of Google’s social networking site, Orkut, were victimized by a new spam worm spreading around the site, said McAfee’s Avert Labs. “While the worm doesn’t appear to harm users’ PCs, it does impact their profile and spread from friend to friend,” said McAfee. “This virus will add the user to a community [...]
Microsoft Sidewinder Mouse
Dec. 20, 2007 2 Comments
The Microsoft Sidewinder Mouse is the most complicated consumer computer input device ever made. It’s also one of the best. It’s a mouse, designed for gaming, that Microsoft says was inspired by the Master Chief from Halo and the Mazda Senku Concept Car, among other futuristic muses. “Microsoft Hardware conducted research with hundreds of gamers [...]
