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Should You Pay For Dark Web Monitoring?
Your personal information is for sale on the dark web. Don't worry, I've got in mind that you don't know what the "dark web" is, other than a scary name. I'll tell you more down below. I believe all articles about the dark web are required to use the above picture to...
MAC OS X UPGRADE
Apple announced an upgrade of OS X, its new operating system, from 10.1 to 10.2. The upgrade will be released in late August. It fixes a bunch of bugs in previous versions, and...
THE REAL MAC OS X STORY
I read press coverage about Apple computers all the time. One of the favorite themes recently has been the wonder of the new Mac operating system, OS X, all new and cool, a real...
CABLE INTERNET PROVIDERS SHUT DOWN BROADBAND USES
A coalition of technology companies – including Intel, Microsoft, Dell, IBM, and Sun Microsystems – filed a complaint with the FCC about “troubling restrictions” imposed by some...
CYBERTERRORISM (NOT)
More interesting reading at The Register: a deeply cynical article bashing the press for repeating stories about alleged threats of cyberterrorism. The government is beating the...
COMPUTER SPEAKERS
I spend a lot of time in my office – more than I spend in the room in the house with the television and stereo. I’ve long believed it’s worthwhile to invest in good speakers for...
MORE FEAR FROM THE RECORDING INDUSTRY
The recording industry continues its relentless quest to be the embodiment of evil in modern times. The latest announcements are aimed at all of us – the folks who would be its...
MICROSOFT RESERVES RIGHT TO HACK YOUR COMPUTER
Here’s one of those things that might be trivial, or it might be enormously significant. There’s no way to be sure – but this is not a time when I have a very high opinion of the...
TOSHIBA POCKET PC e310
I’ve been wrestling with more Palm devices than usual for the last few weeks. (Normally Palms are simple and troublefree, but they’re incredibly annoying when they go crazy and...
MEDIA JUKEBOX
Media Jukebox is the most heavily used program on my computer. If you’ve got more than a handful of mp3 files, it does a better job than any other program of organizing and...
SPAM
Suddenly the flood of unwelcome spam is at the top of everybody’s list. It’s so awful, so overwhelming and gross, that everyone assumes they’re being uniquely singled out. Trust...
RECORDING INDUSTRY SEEKING PERMISSION TO HACK YOUR COMPUTER
Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., whose district includes part of Hollywood, is preparing a bill that would let copyright owners, such as record labels or movie studios, hack into...
THE NEXT STEP IN PERSONAL COMPUTING
Here’s an important one. My mind is buzzing trying to guess the implications of this. This comes from an e-mail newsletter put out by Windows & .NET magazine, summarizing an...
ROYALTY RATES SET FOR INTERNET RADIO
You’ll recall that the recording industry appeared to have won a one-sided mediation to set royalty rates for Internet radio broadcasts. Rates were chosen that were far higher...
VHS STARTS TO FADE AWAY
If you've been holding off on buying a DVD player, the time has come to face facts: VHS is dead. You've already noticed the shift at Costco, always a reliable indicator - the VHS...
AUDIOGALAXY SELLS OUT
AudioGalaxy decided to sell its soul. It settled with the recording industry and agreed to start making a serious effort to filter out copyrighted songs. This permits it to avoid...