Optimum Voice Security Notification for Customers
On 2012/03/14
This was posted by Cablevision:
In an effort to provide the best possible customer service, we want to alert you of a potential virus or phishing web site that may have corrupted your Optimum Voice settings. Customers have recently reported that inbound calls to their Optimum Voice number were forwarded to a [...]
The devil is in the details – when geeks make mistakes
On 2012/03/12
I have a Wi-Fi iPad 2, a 2nd generation model. I like it a lot. So when Apple placed the new iPad (3rd generation) on sale last week I immediately ordered one, which I call the “new iPad”. It is easy for me to rationalize buying a new one. My wife wants my old one [...]
Academy Awards
On 2012/02/23
Those who tell stories rule society.
Plato
My wife and I don’t go to the movies much, except lately. We went to three movies in three nights last weekend. This was preparation for Sunday’s Academy Awards party we are going to. We saw Martin Scorcese’s best picture [...]
Three things you didn’t know your iPad’s keyboard did
On 2012/02/21
There are lots of hidden features in iOS the operating system used on iPhones and iPads. Here are three features you probably didn’t know about that work on iPads running iOS version 5 and above:
1. You can undock the keyboard in addition to splitting into two halves. Hold down the keyboard key
Useful telephone advice a century later
On 2012/02/21
True in 1912. Still true in 2012.
Privacy is dead
On 2012/02/20
Why do many app creators—large companies, startups and individuals—think it is okay to take all the contact information in our digital address books without asking our permission? I would argue that those permissions aren’t even ours to give since it is not our information, by and large, but other people’s. Why should they have access [...]
Hello!
On 2012/02/12
AT&T tried at first to suppress “hello” as a vulgarity.
America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940 (p. 71)
Claude S. Fischer.
I am researching the next person in my series Titans and Tyrants of Technology following last fall’s presentations on Charles Babbage. My [...]
Don’t throw out your computer yet
On 2012/02/07
I do quite a bit of video production. So, I am always on the lookout for tools to make the post-production effort easier. My main tools for post-production are a beefy Windows 7 rig, running Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. I have tried many other programs. That list includes, but is not limited to: Final Cut [...]
Evernote – better than Post-it® Notes
On 2012/01/30
Evernote is a wonderful service that lets you easily create, save, and synchronize your notes to most any computational device. I use it and highly recommend it.
The basic Evernote service is free. The company provides free apps you can download and install that run on Windows, Mac and Linux computers, and Android, [...]
Who are the bad guys?
On 2012/01/23
Wednesday evening, January 25, 2012, I am presenting Being Safe in a Digital World to the Cotton Club Greenwich, a Greenwich, CT group. The talk is intended to help tighten up one’s mental and digital defenses against digital data and privacy loss. My preparation got me thinking, “Who do we need to defend ourselves against?”
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