Technology

Google, that monstrosity, is sweeping the market.
While iPhone 4 is amazing, the Android phone OS is a juggernaut. I was looking to see if an app, like one I saw on an iPhone was in the Android market, when I stumbled upon this one, useful for extraction from bad dates, meetings, etc:
FakeCall Pro

And what does this mean to the average small business computer user?
< a href="http://consumerist.com/2010/07/security-patching-for-xp-service-pack-2-ends-today.html">“Security Patching for XP Service Pack 2 Ends Today”.
It costs money to have teams of people, like fire fighters, employed for the “in case of emergency” situations. Yes, while they aren’t responding to the latest hacker attacks, they can be doing [...]

[ July 9, 2010; 1:00 pm; 1:00 pm; ] The “bad guys” on the Internet have long had a habit of finding the biggest security holes with the greatest potential impact. That’s one reason why the Apple computer line has remained effectively virus free (I caught at least one in the early Mac days (Scores), so don’t tell me there never has been [...]

I enjoy living in the beta world of software. I have rarely come across really bad betas, and I get to know what’s coming “our” way before other begin using it.
Today I installed FireFox 4.0 (beta), meaning the released for testing by people outside of the development place in order to get feedback.
I’m glad [...]

Yesterday was the day that the final release version of WordPress 3.0 made it’s way into the hands of those who wait for “final releases.”
Recently, one of the people who does a lot of lectures on Social Media wandered off the tracks long enough to say he wasn’t a web designer, but people should have [...]

Technology is creeping ahead…quickly. iPads are making it off the shelves in massive numbers, and…yes, there is a security issue. Interesting, isn’t it: The more connected we become, the more we are “exposing” our information. And, as the old saying goes, you can make mistakes with computers so much faster and [...]

Update: Well…the YouTube video was pulled…it was funny, but now it’s gone…
Click the “Read More” button to see a cat using and iPad!

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Ok, here it is….post #1 in a series to…well…video blog.  Simple, easy, to the point.

Title: How not to video blog. Lesson number 1 is to pay attention to your “environmentals.” That means, the light and the sound, and anything that will be in the frame of the camera’s view (like the cat..a [...]

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Video.  Google ranks it above blogs and websites (in that order).
Many people would rather watch a video, than read the text that says the same thing.  The can do it while “multi-tasking” and can put their eyes on it, or not, to fit their style of absorbing the info.
Others want the text, as [...]

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Back in November, I talked about “zombie computers,” those which had been infected to do the bidding of a master computer, usually to SPAM others. The discussion was about how that type of infection was a usual suspect in a “slow computer.”
Some good news was found in my reading [...]