Cranky Geeks
Click Cranky Geeks for the video Episode 232: A Major Facebook Announcement?, Murdoch’s Online Paper, Dr. Geek Squad, “Flash This, Apple!”, Soracle, the Manhattan Iceberg Project, and more!
Intel seeks to change cybersecurity with $7.6B McAfee acquisition
By Tim Conneally | BetaNews.com Published August 19, 2010, 10:44 AM Intel Corporation Thursday morning announced that it will acquire security software and management company McAfee Inc. for $7.68 billion in cash. Intel says the move reflects the changing security climate as more non-PC devices connect to the Internet, like cars, Read more…
Hard drive breakthough could herald mega-capacity drives
By Ed Oswald | BETANEWS Published August 19, 2010, 3:31 PM …Toshiba said Wednesday that it had made a breakthrough in hard disk design that will allow hard drives to have much higher capacities than what is currently possible today. The research is in something called bit-patterned media, a magnetic Read more…
How To Install or Renew Remote Desktop SSL Certificate
UPDATED July 25 2022 CREATE A NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST: Launch IIS Manager and click the SERVER name (not the websites or virtual directories) In the IIS section, click SERVER CERTIFICATES (if you don’t see this, you are likely not at the server level, go click on the server name at the Read more…
11 Reasons NOT to Buy and Apple iPad
The Name: I guess the machine only works 3 out of 4 weeks! No USB: Absoultely inexcusable that Apple is still trying to screw their customers with proprietary peripherals. If I could drop a USB keyboard into it, it might be useful. No Flash: Other than through the use of Read more…
Firefox Accounts for 44% of Vulnerabilities Compared to IE’s 15%
http://prosecure.netgear.com/community/security-blog/2009/11/web-browser-vulnerability-report—firefox-leads-the-pack-at-44.php A recent report by Web application security vendor Cenzic pointed out that in the first half of 2009 Firefox totaled for 44% of all vulnerabilities amongst popular Web browsers. Also somewhat surprising is Safari coming in at 35% due to iPhone Safari vulnerabilities (that’s another story in itself). IE Read more…
In Just TWO WEEKS, Windows 7 Has More Users than ALL Users of Mac
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-7-mac-osx-apple,9159.html …The interesting stat, however, was that Windows 7 usage surpassed all versions of Mac OS X combined…
Office 2010 Looks Pretty Good
I have just started playing with Word 2010 and found some nice minor improvements. The most notable is that the Office Button, which confused most 2007 users, has been correctly replaced with the “FILE” menu drop down list. This is my first test of the new BLOGGING interface. I use Read more…
Windows 7 Turn Laptops into Real Wi-Fi Hotspots
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-Laptop-Internet-hotspot-Connectify,8971.html#xtor=RSS-181 Home Connectify takes control of Windows 7’s Virtual Wi-Fi feature and turns the laptop into a hotspot. PC Advisor reports that Philadelphia developer Nomadio has discovered an unfinished Windows 7 feature (Virtual Wi-Fi) that can turn a laptop into a Wi-Fi hotspot. That means other devices in the near Read more…
How To Dismantle / Disassemble a Blackberry 8800 8810 8820 8830 88xx
This is a dandy video of how to take apart a Blackberry 8800 series: http://cnn.cn/shop/blackberry-88008830-black-keyboard-french-azerty-p-2022.html Click the BlackBerry 88xx disassembly link at the bottom right of the page.
Windows 7 – Lesser Known Interesting Features
These are taken from “77 Windows 7 Tips” http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.10.77windows.aspx 6. Shift to and from Explorer and CommandPrompt. The classic Windows power toy Open Command Prompt Here is now an integral part of Windows 7 Explorer. Hold down the shift key then right-click a folder to add this option to the Read more…
Hacker: Windows More Secure Than Mac OS X
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hack-windows-security-snow-leopard,8704.html#xtor=RSS-181 …”Snow Leopard’s more secure than Leopard, but it’s not as secure as Vista or Windows 7,” he said. “When Apple has both [in place], that’s when I’ll stop complaining about Apple’s security.”… …It is of the opinion of Charlie Miller, a well known Mac security guru, that even Snow Read more…
In 1992 There Were Only 50 Web Sites… Now That Was A Growth Industry
I recently tried to find an snippet from the MS Internet Explorer 3.0 (from Win95C) that stated there were only 150 web sites in 1993. However, the help file I was looking for was a link to a web site which is now gone and http://www.archive.org/ has nothing for it. Read more…
Microsoft drops 3-app limit from Windows 7 Starter Edition
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/05/29/microsoft-drops-3-app-limit-from-windows-7-starter-edition?icid=sphere_blogsmith_inpage_downloadsquad by Brad Linder The team of Microsoft developers working on Windows 7 have written a blog post spelling out exactly what features will and will not be available in Windows 7 Starter Edition. And the company has decided to drop one of the most talked-about restrictions: the ability to Read more…
Windows 7: Whats New From Beta to RC to RTM Video
Click the following link for an excellent 10 minute brief on Windows 7 changes http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/dd758778.aspx?ITPID=tnflash Also, MS has produced a small (and very incomplete) set of pages explaining some of the enhancements in 7. What’s New in AppLocker What’s New in Biometrics What’s New in Certificates What’s New in Deployment Read more…