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...
This is amazing. Many illnesses can damage the eye, from the cornea to the retina, the layer of the eye which translates and communicates the image to the brain for interpretation. Now there’s a device which ameliorates retinal diseases to a great extent. It won’t help degenerative nerve diseases, though as it needs intact Optic nerves to convey translated impulses to the brain’s optic cortex. (combined x-ray and optic tract images in Photoshop) &nbs...
(photo credit Neowin altered by me) “Apple picking” no longer refers to going to an orchard with the kids, at least not in the Big Apple. It now refers to the phone being snatched out of peoples’ hands while they’re talking! The iPhone’s pretty popular in the Big Apple: So popular that a special police unit to prevent iPhone thieves has been created to deal with this as well as tablet theft. The way the unit works is as soon as a theft is reported, t...
This via Reuters. MS stated that no customer info was compromised. A small number of computers were compromised, and the attack was similar to those at Apple and Facebook. Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/22/microsoft-hacked-apple-hacked-facebook-hacked_n_2745178.html
Not discussing the content. I’m discussing how the basic principal of Capitalism has failed us: Competition in a free market. We all agree that when power is concentrated in the hands of a few, our freedoms are inevitably curtailed. This is true, as it turns out, regarding the internet as well. “At the heart of the problem lie a few powerful companies with enormous influence over policy making. Both the wireless and wired markets for high-speed Internet acce...
The Intelligence Center of computer security firm Mandiant has identified the majority of highly sophisticated attacks on the U.S. to have originated by 4 networks in a bland, twelve story building in Shanghai which houses (allegedly) a super secret cyber warfare unit of China’s Army. “Highlights of the report include: Evidence linking APT1 to China’s 2nd Bureau of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Staff Department’s (GSD) 3rd Department ...
MS has done it again. They must have a Division of Dumbassed Moves. Their latest winner? You buy a license to MS Office 2013. Now it’s tied to that computer and that’s it. Anything happens to that computer, or you decide to upgrade to another system, you’d better keep the old one because the license cannot be transferred to the new one. “Under our license we grant you the right to install and run that one copy on one computer (the licensed computer)...
Apple started it, and there are genuine and phony Apple Stores from here to well, China. MS has them in many cities. Even Samsung has one in London. Now, according to Seth Weintraub at 9to5Google , a high level source at Google has leaked that there will be Google Stores open for 2013’s holidays in major cities. There are now Google kiosks at retailers now to explain and demonstrate its products but actual sales are done by the chains themselves in the US and Britain. So, ...
A while back I believe I wrote about this development. Correct, it isn’t Personal Computing, but it is personal for many… too many. Some members of the community have asked me to write about diabetes, especially. So, since this a request, here you go. I tried not to make it too technical/boring. A little background. Insulin is produced (naturally) in the pancreas. Its main function is to facilitate glucose’s entry into cells where glucose is metabolized for energy. Insulin does ...
There’s a really great series of totally free Photoshop basics tutorials on psdtuts+ , for those interested in learning the basics or just brushing up on stuff not used in a while. They are taught by Martin Parhiniak who is a graphics designer and Certified Expert Design Master by Adobe where he worked for three years. Anyway, Martin’s vids are free on the website: http://psd.tutsplus.com/sessions/photoshop-basix/ What’s really nice about these ...
I’m posting this after seeing it on ZDNet since there might be some looking for the Surface Pro. I’d advise calling the store or checking online before running out to buy it. Also, it might be better to call the actual store as the online info might not be accurate or updated as often as you might like. This isn’t a review of the product. Turns out that MS didn’t take pre-orders on the Surface Pro 64 and 128 GB models as they did for the Surface RT. What’s a customer...
Saw this at The Windows Club, and thought it might interest some. If you have W8 (x32 or x64) you can now get the WinZip app for free at the Windows Store. In November, it cost $7.99 (US). So why is MS doing it? Simple. It now offers support for SkyDrive as well as Google Drive cloud services. It has two new features: ZipSend and ZipShare direct connectivity for file sharing, which allows you to email over sized files to friends and contacts, as well as Facebook, LinkedIn and ...