They can’t get over the power they have over people. These examples of how we should conduct ourselves and our lives and via “sundry” laws shred the Constitution “for our benefit and security”. Now some lawmakers in Hawaii want to pass a law that would force ISP’s to keep track of your visits: Hawaii's legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their custome...
I feel obliged to Martin Brinkmann at gHacks.net for bringing this to our attention since so many of us use Adobe Shockwave Player and are updating it from time to time. In his article today, Mr. Brinkmann alerted me (and now us) to the fact that Adobe is bundling Norton Security Scan with its software. He also alerts us that: “The popular download portal Download.com for instance has also started to bundle adware with the majority of downloads they provide site users w...
It’s free and it’s a powerful suite which can help fix, improve performance, speed up and maintain your computer. Key features: Automatic care in background; Optimize, clean and boost the speed of your Windows; Protect your privacy and security; Block spyware, trojans, adware, etc.; Fix certain application errors; To see all its contents, navigate to http://www.glarysoft.com/products/utilities/glary-utilities-pro/ There are other free ones… and man...
Picked this one up on Neowin.net (via Hankers - ty, Hank) . It was also mentioned as download #2 for the week on cnet (I think…deleted that email). Snowy, I hope this one will keep that new card of yours under your supervision. Anyway, this utility is free and it’ll give you all the info you want and need from your video card and GPU: It scans your system (on installation) and reveals the name of your card, GPU, BIOS version, ROPs ...
Ok. This morning I woke up to CNN and HLN blaring away with their gorgeous female anchors about “no more back problems” from those 100 lb. back packs our kids (and you) had to drag to school and back. Incredible.. super rich content, videos, “An A Student in every pot”. What’s the “instead of”? The iPad. Right. The inexpensive and about to be flooded with textbook iPads. Sure. Who and which school district is going to be supplying those (eve...
The owners of the most popular site for uploading “files” Megaupload has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for causing more than $500 million in lost revenue because of pirating TV shows,music and other content. The company is run out of Hong Kong (surprise) but is hosted in part in Ashburn, VA where the indictment was made. “Megaupload founder and operator -- Kim Dotcom (formerly Kim Schmitz) -- was arrested along with three others in New Zealand on Thursday at th...
This one really sucks. http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee-bonuses-to-the-success-of-the-googles-social-strategy-2011-4 So what’s behind that? It’s Google’s desire and need to become a Social Media… why? To sell more advertising. So, Larry Page, Google’s new CEO has told employees that 25% of their annual bonus will depend on Google’s social strategy in 2011. When Google gave all of its employees a 10% raise and $1,000 bonus last fall, i...
Bad news for Comet (currently being sold to OpCapita). Microsoft is accusing them of producing counterfeit Recovery Disks for Vista and XP and shipping them off to be sold in their stores across the UK. Some 94,000 copies were made and sold. "Comet’s actions were unfair to customers. We expect better from retailers of Microsoft products — and our customers deserve better, too." - David Finn, associate general counsel, worldwide anti-piracy and anti-counterfeit...
captainmoonlight has made me aware of an email he received from moonchild (Pale Moon dev): A heads-up this time about the upcoming Firefox 10 release: Pale Moon will skip the version 10 code base , considering the implemented features in Firefox 10 are a (partial) implementation of web developer tools that are of less significance, and it does not yet address the most important issue currently present in Firefox, which is a massive performance i...
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith (R- TX) announced that the provision requiring ISPs to block access to overseas Web sites accused of piracy has been yanked from SOPA. This is a major victory for the tech sector since this provision required changes to the Domain Name System (DNS) blocking provision which would have destabilized the web. "After consultation with industry groups across the country," Smith said in a statement released by his office. "I feel w...
Not talking about a virtual OS isolating app here. This is a “could be big” fun app. “Aurasma is a free app that lets you discover, create and share amazing virtual content, integrated into the real world.” - http://www.aurasma.com/ Available for smartphones, the app recognizes images, symbols and objects in the real world and understands them. It can then deliver relevant content in real time, including videos, animations, audio or webpages. It augmen...
For c|net’s “ Best of the Show ”? Probably the best TV ever – LG 55EM9600 OLED TV : What’s so great? It’s a 55” OLED, excellent viewing angles, absolute black levels, ultra fast and so thin it’s crazy! The best news? Same price as the LCD of the same size. “People’s Choice”: Razer Project Fiona – the gaming tablet with the handles: (photo credits: c|net) There are a whole slew of Best of…” categories… smartphones (ID’s (desired)...
So… for Uvah, a special today. I read where you said 3D won’t happen until we get holographic displays. You’re right, and it’s here, if on a personal level. Neowin’s Chris White interviewed a Vizux representative at CES and the vid is on Neowin. So I took a trip to the company website to learn more. This is true cutting edge stuff. The possibilities (as well as what’s here already) are amazing! (Photo credit Vizux) Say tech help is needed. The guy c...
Continuing with Laptops: Samsung has a design winner Series 9: (Credit cnet) “Samsung says it's 37 percent thinner and 0.4 pound lighter, and after playing around with a preproduction unit, the new body feels more like Apple's unibody style. Samsung says it's 37 percent thinner and 0.4 pound lighter, and after playing around with a preproduction unit, the new body feels more like Apple's unibody style.” http://www.cnet.com/8301...
Also, Lightroom 3 heavily discounted. This one via Island Dog (thank you!). You can give Adobe Lightroom 4 a whirl for free (at least until March 31 when the RTM arrives) according to The Verge. What’s new? It’s dropping support for XP. Vista and W7 are supported, Mac OSX, Lion are supported but Lion not in full screen mode. More support for video files, allowing users to trim clips nondestructively and extract individual frames as JPEGs. Editing adj...