Would be nice, right? Well, it’s been around for a while. The gamma-knife. High energy radiation. But what if there was an alternative without radiation? What if you could operate on a brain without opening the skull? The complications like infection and the cost of that surgery and hospital stays would be far fewer and shorter. Well, Insightec is doing just that with MRI guided high-intensity ultrasound technology. In fact, there are centers in Europe and the A...
Very few doubt the importance of the internet for business, communication and well, you name it. Along with the progress come the criminals and those seeking to do business by stealing the goods of others and selling them more cheaply or even for “free” along with malware as a bonus offering. So, many folks have had it and are fed up to the gills with large firms which maintain servers known to be spam warehouses (and ripped stuff as well). This is the setting for ...
Neowin.net has posted a vid of new W8 features: http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-blue-build-9364-start-screen-video-shows-new-features The YouTube share link: http://youtu.be/WkNGkGeDd3c If you have W8, might be interesting.
A company called EyeVerify claims a foolproof method of identification as a “secure password” method of securing your computer and data. According to it’s CEO (Toby Rush), passwords fail for two reasons: terrible passwords and there’s no “proof of life” with the ones we do create. Now, with the software they created, everyone’s unique identifier (retinal blood vessel pattern) will overcome both. EyeVerify uses streaming video (so simply removing the eye wont work) t...
The Australian Parliament has finally gotten off its duff and is probing the price gouging there. This is getting ridiculous. It’s actually cheaper for an Australian to fly to the US and buy CS6 here than to buy it in Oz! Well, Adobe’s going 100% digital and dropping box sets, so that might well not be happening any more, but the Australian legislature is demanding answers. Good for them, and high time. This has been going on for decades. Companies often charge a prem...
Just as cancer has 7 warning signs which (if you’ve forgotten) are listed below, malware infection has 7 warning signs as well. If you have any to add, feel free to do so! 1. Popup Ads appear even when no browser is open. 2. Browser navigation gets redirected and/or home page is changed. 3. A security program you never installed pops up “warning” messages. 4. Posts you never wrote appear on social media sites with trolling messages and a link to click. 5. A p...
Just what it says. Two copies for $11.22 each and 3-5 copies for $9.97 each. There are 14 hrs. left on the deal. You can’t do much better than that. Here’s where it is: http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/malwarebytes-anti-malware/src=day?utm_campaign=2175089&utm_content=4144667414&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailvision Update (3/19): As of 6:26 a.m. you have 20 hrs left on the deal which has been extended....
Judge Susan Illston has ruled that the FBI’s pervasive use of National Security letters which were created by the Patriot Act is unconstitutional. In doing so, she stated that their use (tens of thousands per year) is too broad. Fully 97% of them are issued without the recipients’ names are never mentioned. "This pervasive use of nondisclosure orders, coupled with the government's failure to demonstrate that a blanket prohibition on recipients' ability...
Yep… important stuff. Good article about the updates here: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/its-microsoft-patch-tuesday-march-2013/7401?tag=nl.e064&s_cid=e064&ttag=e064 Don’t try to get by without these.
No surprise… but really nice to see. Congrats, Stardock! Also at Lifehacker.com: Read the review here: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/150346-how-to-run-full-screen-windows-8-metro-apps-in-a-window-on-the-desktop Read more about (and get try) ModernMix here: https://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/
Remember the angst over Office 2013 licensing regarding non transferability of Office 2013 to other machines in your possession? Well, MS has changed its policy due to consumer anger. Here’s their new policy: “Updated transferability provision to the Retail License Terms of the Software License Agreement for Microsoft Office 2013 Desktop Application Software: Can I transfer the software to another computer or user? You may transfer the software to another ...
News flash Yahoo email was hacked. How can you check to see if your account was among them? Check out this ghacks.net article: http://www.ghacks.net/2013/03/07/how-to-check-your-account-recent-yahoo-login-activity/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e814%2ehj0ao01hy5%2eu3p Let’s say you have been. What should you do? “Many secure websites include a mechanism to reset a forgotten password by sending a special link to your email account of record. A malefactor in...
A dire prediction, indeed. How did the Security firm Internet Identity’s president and CTO Rod Rasmussen come to it? He came to it by virtue of the devices we have which communicate with themselves and with other devices by blue tooth and via the internet. Rasmussen pointed to remotely programmable pacemakers and vehicles. These could be hijacked. Actually, his “idea” is hardly new. It was in an episode of “Homeland”, last season. A...
I’ve been spending the week in Photoshop classes struggling to educate my old brain about this marvelous program and how to use it. So, imagine my surprise when one of my favorite victims emailed me about the Ps “Touch” app for smart phones. Seriously, thanks Jim. Well, Ps “Touch” (a $9.99 US app) is a great way to enter the world of Photoshop. It’s a limited app, lacking many of the powers of it’s big brother, Adobe CS6.1 Extended. Was it meant to have them? No. A smartpho...
MS has released IE 10 – probably in the hope that it will win back folks who’ve migrated to Firefox and Chrome. Wanna bet? Currently Firefox holds 20% and Chrome holds 17% of the browser market while IE (all editions) holds about 55%. Since IE10 was tied to W8, it’s exposure has been limited (apart from the “preview”). Since W8 is only at 2.3%, MS is releasing IE 10 to try and compete independently from W8. Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/02/2...