Saw this article over on News.com about how the next Service Pack ofWindows XP is going to include a pop-up blocker ability built-in to Internet Explorer. Interesting for two reasons. One, it’s about time! Two, if even IE comes with a pop-up blocker by default, that form of web advertising is dead, offically, although since…
Funny, but also informative, article about security “features” that maybe go a bit too far. link via Tomalak
In response to that last post, Craig emailed and asked if I would recommend some tech blogs that are good for keeping up with the news. Well, since I know darned well that if I started listing tech blogs I’d leave somebody out I figured I’d do two things. First, I’d point you to the…
Yesterday, late in the day, I got some email from a mailing list I had joined a couple of years ago and that I had pretty much given up for dead, since it’s been a few months since I heard anything from it. The list is a listserv discussion list run by a statewide organization…
The wife and I were tripping through one of the local Sam’s Club’s last night, and as usual, I decided to skip over to the computer area and see what they had going on. (Especially in light of the fact that a certain holiday is coming up and I need to start looking for gift…
A technology company engaging in anti-competitive behavior. The installation for their software makes sure that their peripheral will only operate with said software and disable it’s ability to communicate with the competitor’s software. Why that no good lousy, Bill.. What’s that? Oh it’s Apple. Nevermind…. Yes that was sarcasm, personally, I don’t use iTunes or…