For those of who who wrote in support of my decision to take away this site as an excuse for THC to not deal with resolving the real problems, thanks. For those of you who think I caved to censorship, well believe whatever you want to, I don’t really care. It’s over for now and…
Or at least to save your PC from spyware! Yes, AdAware version 5.7 has just been released. (Thanks to Lockergnome Tech Specialist for the tip) If you’re new to the world of spyware, what AdAware will do is scan your PC for any files, cookies, programs, registry entries, etc. that companies are using to track…
Looks like a few people who are in the middle of the THC saga are straggling in to the forums. That’s cool, I hope they can find some info from each other there! The infamous Geek also stopped in to suggest some possible forum topics, one about privacy/legislation and one actually about blogging. I’m going…
Seems like I get a heck of a lot of traffic to my article on spyware from folks looking for ways to run kazaa or other file sharing services without the ads, or without the tracking. Could it be that you’re actually getting sick of all the intrusiveness? Or are you just worried that someone’s…
Senate group to consider copy controls Yes it’s back! The SSSCA bill! Learn more about it here. If you want the government completely involved in making sure you don’t break any potential laws with your PC, then feel free to ignore this. But if you feel like the government has gone too far in considering…
I did get to try and install StatCounteX yesterday, and then this morning found the version that adds password protection to the stats, which I was rather disappointed wasn’t there to begin with. Turns out it was a user uploaded version. There wasn’t much in the way of documentation, I guess that’s a hazard of…