Between last week’s news that Google might be putting in a feature to block flash ads from automatically playing, and this week’s news that Apple is including ad-blocking as part of the Safari browser for mobile, am I the only one who wonders how the ad-supported web economy will survive?
Since I was in Indianapolis this weekend, for my niece’s birthday, a stop at Fry’s was on order before heading home. Turns out they were running a special on a Western Digital 1.5TB external hard drives. Until Nov. 19 they are $99.99. Naturally, I picked one up while we were in town, and immediately made…
There’s a security issue inside the Lastpass browser exension that could allow a hacker to get in between you and Lastpass, and get all your info. While they correct the issue, they do have some recommendations to stay safe, or consider turning of the browser extension for a little bit. Use the LastPass Vault as…
Craig Ball and John Simek Craig: a simple Walmart purchased hard drive holds more data than you can imagine. 80GB is a ton of stuff, and maybe 2/3 of what is on that drive is unreadable to you, so you can’t even be sure what it says. Even then, we’ve moved way beyond that. We’re…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or otherwise disconnected from social networks, you are probably aware that Apple released the latest version of it’s iOS. Of course, it does appear to have some cool features, but as the proud owner of older iDevices, I’m not going to be spending my day getting the update….
This is an interesting idea that might be an easy way to eliminate at least some of the malware epidemic. I enabled it on my Macbook for the past day or two and haven’t noticed it really, which I guess just means I haven’t tried to access any sites that have been distributing malware. A…
I don’t really know why this isn’t a job requirement for people with a security clearance already. Shouldn’t the ability to understand and use technology appropriately be the part of most job performance evaluations? Shouldn’t the inability to do that result in not getting a good evaluation? If so, shouldn’t someone granted a security clearance…