Digital copiers are the new security fear
On 2010/04/25
All digital copiers made since 2002 use a hard drive to store information including copied images. So images of confidential documents are stored unsecured on these hard drives. This problem was revealed about two weeks ago by the CBS Evening News. This only applies to office-grade copiers. Your home all-in-one printer [...]
Microsoft Office 2010 is social in an unexpected way
On 2010/04/24
I installed the final version of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 on my main Windows 7 rig this week. It will be released to the general public in June 2010. I had been using the beta before this. The final version installed with a bit a difficulty. I first had to uninstall the beta and [...]
The Lost iPhone Dido (a defense of Gizmodo)
On 2010/04/24
WordWeb Pro defines dido as “a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement.”
Gizmodo is a gadget-oriented technology blog. Last week they published information, including photos, of a prototype next generation iPhone. Gizmodo said they paid someone $5,000 to get it. That person [...]
Tech news you should know about
On 2010/04/23
Have you read about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)? How about the Supreme Court’s Bilski case? You know of Intel and maybe of AMD, their chief rival in computer CPUs. Have you ever heard of ARM Holdings? Did you know that Apple is rumored to be thinking of acquiring [...]
If you get the following pop-up dialog in Firefox go ahead and disable the plug-in and restart your browser. Palemoon is a custom-built and optimized for Windows Firefox derivative that I am testing.
If you do not want to wait for the popup, you can find out if this is installed in [...]
Make Adobe Reader and Acrobat more secure
On 2010/04/18
PDF files are increasingly used to spread malware like viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, and ransomware. Adobe Reader and its big brother Adobe Acrobat are found on almost every Windows machine and many Macs too. This makes PDFs a favorite vector of infection for the black hats (AKA the bad guys).
There are two changes you [...]
Is your cable TV bill too high?
On 2010/04/14
It would be surprising if you answered, “No.” Except for cable company executives, we all feel that our ever-increasing cable or satellite TV bills are too high. However, even the executives understand how customers feel about these rising rates. The content producers, like Disney or Fox, are probably the major force at work causing this [...]
Should you buy AppleCare for your iPad?
On 2010/04/04
Herein I predict the future.
A friend recently asked, “Should he buy the AppleCare extended warranty for his new iPad?” I am generally opposed to spending money for extended warranties. I decided that it would be better to do an analysis this time rather than give a [...]
File extensions are important and useful. These are the characters that follow the final period in the file name. They are usually 3 or 4 characters long. They tell an operating system whether or not a file is an application, like Excel.exe, or the file’s associated application. The EXE extension tells Windows that the file [...]
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