This, and the other feature mentioned in the article, having the app tell you when you’re approaching a railroad crossing, seem like really good ideas to me. I’ve known plenty of places over the years where turning left was a fool’s game, and found ways to route around that. You should have the option to turn that on the same way you can avoid tolls, right?
The thing I hate about lists like this is that way too many people will read the list of airports, and assume they can be “protected” by just not using Wi-Fi there. In fact, every public Wi-Fi network has vulnerabilities and should never be trusted. Use a VPN everywhere, whether the airport in question made…
They should be working again. I don’t really know why, or how, but whatever was going on between Google’s Feedburner service and Yahoo’s Delicious service seems to have been corrected. So, starting tonight the “links of the day” post should make it’s reappearance in the RSS feed again. Enjoy! Tags: Delicious, Feedburner, RSS Follow these…
This is actually a difficult thing to protect against, because every organization’s IT infrastructure has at least one person with completely unfettered access, who we trust to keep it running smoothly and who would need a very high level of permissions to do so. On the other hand, had Columbia had a policy in place…
That’s one of the recommendations Doug Cornelius makes in various discussions around the blogosphere about poor communication between “geeks” and “users”. (Start here at 3 geeks and a Law Blog, which links to Jenn Steele’s original post and read the comments on both for the background.) Doug’s claim that the problem with help desk tickets…
So far they are only rumors, or planned products with no pricing, but can I just say the idea of a Windows Home Server and a 1-Terabyte hard drive gets me excited? Or maybe it’s just been a long day and I’m easily excited? It was a very long day, the first day of maternity…
Reading this latest article about the future of the mobile web, Smartphones: The silent killer of the Web as you know it, I’m struck by the difference between how young people interact with the web, and how us old veterans do it. Young people don’t use tablets because they don’t see them as necessary for…
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