Streaming local video to your Roku
On 2011/05/26
Roku boxes are great. They let you watch Internet video, pictures, and listen to Internet audio programs. Roku recently enabled playing content from a locally connected USB device. Roku boxes are easy to install, easy to use and are inexpensive.
One thing missing was the ability to play videos [...]
Improve your iPhone battery life
On 2011/05/20
Over at ZDNet David Gewirtz has a useful post about improving your iPhone’s battery life. If you have multiple email accounts you need to do one more thing. Follow Gewirtz’ advice but do the following as well:
Go to Fetch New Data > Advanced Now set each email account individually for “Push, [...]
A client, who was recently scammed out of a significant amount of money via a stolen email account, received the following message, purporting to be from the FBI, this morning. It clearly is a continuation of the scam. Note the misspellings: they were in the original email:
[some information has been obscured]
From: JOHN [...]
Trust No One (TNO)
On 2011/05/08
Disclosures about major security breaches have dominated much of the tech news in the past few months. The trend seems to be growing, not abating. These are large, serious breaches that compromise security, confidential information and privacy for governments, corporations and individuals. In no specific order, there were the:
Simple way to make website pop-over objects disappear
On 2011/05/01
Who doesn’t love freshly baked, warm-from-the oven popovers? I don’t bear the same good feeling towards web pop-overs. Although the web variety are non-fattening, they are another irritant to working with our computers. These days they appear more frequently than application and operating system updates and patches. They show up when we click to open [...]
