Thanks to both the web team and support team we have a brand new Support page ! The new page has all the important links to those urls we all have been gleaning from various different threads. It’s all just become a whole lot easier. It’s very well organized and functional as well, and even has an instant chat (mibbit) widget embedded, so you can (M-F, 9am-5pm) reach support folks. To access this page and put it on your browser’s “Favorites”: https://www.stardock.co...
Ideally, Windows should balance the programs which access your computers CPU and RAM. Unfortunately, it doesn’t. That’s frequently why boots are slow, and freezes happen. “…default priority classes, default CPU affinities, disallowed processes, keep running processes, per-process power schemes, a process watchdog, and process instance count limits.” – Razvan Serea, http://www.neowin.net/news/process-lasso-51054 Should have been part of Win...
Just caught an interesting headline: “Exclusive: Unmasking the World’s Most Wanted Hacker” here: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/06/exclusive-unmasking-worlds-most-wanted-hacker/ Hector Xavier Monsegur is alleged to be “Sabu The Elephant Boy”, the head of Lulzsec. He was arrested during the summer of 2011 by the FBI after he was “doxed” (identified) online. Apparently he’s a 28 year old unemployed computer programmer living...
I started writing this two days ago but delayed publishing because I felt I should defer to Binyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel as I thought he would touch on the points I intended to make in this post. I am heartened greatly that in fact, he did last night in his speech to AIPAC. Purim - “The Festival of The Casting of Lots” will be upon us soon. How appropriate and ironic, in so many ways. Ahmadinejad and the Iranians of today should read it well or, si...
Most people are concerned about their digital privacy. Most people also don’t read the privacy statements for the services they use. Face it, your info is a valuable commodity, and not just to you. OK, so March first was the big day for Google. They changed their privacy policy to unite all your info across all the services of theirs which you use. They aren’t collecting more data. They’ve always collected that data. They’re just using it differently. The a...
Just stumbled across a perfect birthday present for the Wiz! Makeuseof has just put together a page with nine categories of “The Best” portable apps. And at first glance, they appear to be free. That doesn’t mean that if you have something different, it’s no good. Not at all. This is only their editors’ judgment. Cruise over and take a look see… if you really need and will use it, grab it! Source: http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/b...
Stardock has sent out it’s yearly survey. Please take some time to fill it out. It’s all of 14 simple questions and takes a minute of your time. For that minute and your answers, Stardock is offering a discount of 10% on any purchase good through March 31, 2012. edit: By the way, in answer to some of the first responses, the mailing might be done in "successive waves", and do make sure to check your "spam/junk" folders for this email. For those with several email acco...
Privacy is an important concept. We all want it. We all make sacrifices to keep it, yet paradoxically also do things to compromise it. Ok up to here. However, when we make online purchases, join websites and other things, we expect these details to remain guarded and become angered when these sites, and our data are compromised. Well, the Administration has a plan to generate standards for online privacy. This isn’t out of line imo. The Internet stretches across states, c...
Ok, so this is really cool… if you’ve ever hankered to create an animated cartoon, or meld real pictures and drawings but really didn’t want (or have) the big bucks needed for the software, this is for you. Imagine ZubaZ or PoSmedley as cartoon characters. Hmmmm…. (any shots of the software are incidental) This is simple software. It’s 2D, and really just has a set of very good, basic tools to work with. If you have Ps experience, or Gimp the tools won’t seem s...
The great smart phone can’t seem to avoid it’s one fatal downfall (so to speak): The toilet. How many have lost a phone to the throne? OK, put down your hands. That might just become a thing of the past. Wouldn’t that be great? Well, three companies showed off their stuff at CES 2012… HzO, P2i and Liquirepel all are coming to the rescue. Apparently, 82.5 million phones have been damaged by moisture. I’ve seen posts here in forums so thi...
This one caught my eye, and WebGizmo's. He thought it was air freshener. A spray on antenna. Imagine you’re lost in the woods with a phone but zilch bars, Or on the side of a road out where there’s zero reception. Maybe after a hurricane or disaster, and the only antennas are miles away. Or on a battlefield. There’s a plane overhead, but you can’t call for help. Yes you can, now (well, on VHF in the example below, because that’s the band planes use), but i...
Adobe has issued a “Critical” security update addressing 7 vulnerabilities, one of which is currently being exploited. One is a cross scripting vulnerability and six allow infection via crafted web pages. “The cross site scripting attack is basically aimed at Internet Explorer on Windows systems, tricking users to click on malicious links. Adobe says the vulnerability “could be used to take actions on a user’s behalf on any website or webmail provider, if the ...
One of the ways we become ‘commodities’ is by being tracked as we move from website to website. Anywhere you see those facebook and twitter icons you’re being tracked by those two at least. Also, have you ever wondered why ads on websites seem to be uncannily directed at you? Well, it’s by tracking you and identifying you… So, this is hardly news, but “DoNotTrackPlus” (DNT+) might be, for some. I had the extensions on my Chrome and Firef...
The U.S. Department of State and its embassy in Prague are sponsoring the contest to test ways social media and open source data can be used to track terrorists and locate missing children. Didn’t know the State Department looked for missing children… or terrorists, for that matter. I thought that was a local law enforcement function, and Interpol but certainly if an American child goes lost in a foreign country, they would be involved, so it could be a valuable tool&helli...
“Happy Valentine’s Day” from MS, only the theme isn’t ‘hearts and flowers’. It’s ‘remote code execution’. MS states there will be many fixes for IE, and for every version of it’s several OS’s, including XP, so browsing in XP as well as OS XP will be safer as well. There are no .NET updates. There will be nine security bulletins “Critical”: Four, and “Important”": Five. T...