I got an email notice from my bank today that said starting such and such a date they were implementing a new security feature for on-line banking. On that day if I want to do some on-line banking, I’ll have to enter my password on two consecutive screens to login. Now, I’ll admit I don’t…
I like Twitteroo for my Windows laptop, and while I’ve seen some Linux tools, I hadn’t quite gotten around to getting any of them yet. On the other hand, after seeing something on Twitter from Kevin Devin about Tweetbar, I took a look at that, and lo and behold, why bother installing software when I…
We frequently do business with a firm that prepares reports for us, stuff like environmental impact studies, etc. that they in turn make available to us for download from their website. Since the clients want us to send them a CD copy of the report, and since most of our users don’t have CD burners,…
Yes, you say something nice about a service, lots of other people start talking about it, and they start having problems. As useful as I think Twitter can be, currently the Gtalk IM function is completely unreliable, which means using my blackberry to send updates and get notifications doesn’t really work. I have to be…
I promised you some more thoughts about using Twitter, so here we go. As you know, I went in doubting it’s usefulness. I still think there’s a whole lot of stuff I don’t care about on there, but in the process of using it, I think I’ve stumbled into some good stuff, mostly in the…
Regarding my previous posts about installing Ubuntu, which I really do like, by the way, I just got a Twitter message from Bubbasan pointing me to the Linux Equivalent Project. This is a pretty cool idea, and there’s some things on there I really hadn’t though about at all, but will be taking a look…