Looking to make sure your emails are protected from prying eyes, whether those eyes be government “data miners” or just anyone who might be spoofing your identity and looking for juicy information with which to open a credit card in…
Many IT Professionals Feel Traumatized by the Daily Grind
I can attest to this article being fact. I don’t know if I’d say “traumatized,” since that’s a pretty harsh word, but I can definitely say there have been some days (like today) where I wonder if I’m not slowly…
House Rejects Net Neutrality Rules
Sadly, the House of Representatives, voting mostly along party lines (Democrats for the measure, Republicans against), managed to defeat the net Neutrality amendment that would have guaranteed the lack of a multi-tiered internet under the hands of telecommunications companies that…
Toyota Prius Sales Pass 500,000 Mark
Over half of the now more than a half-million Toyota Prius vehicles (shown above) sold in the worldwide automobile market were in the United States, showing that the hybrid vehicle is not some random “fad” that will die out quickly,…
The Making of Halo 3
If you were anywhere near as enthralled as I was by the trailer for Halo 3 that was released at this year’s E3 Expo, then this will get you salivating for more. The new engine looks incredibly impressive, and to…
Turn Your $60 Router Into A $600 Router
The glory that is LifeHacker [ http://www.lifehacker.com/ ] has an excellent feature today on how to take an applicable Linksys Wireless router and do a pretty simple firmware flash to upgrade it, install the DD-WRT firmware, and suddenly have control…
Google Readies Google Spreadsheets
(image courtesy of Google Blogoscoped) Google quietly signed up several people for the beta for their Google Spreadsheets application today, providing a select few access to what will eventually most likely become Google’s newest web-based offering among its already-impressive suite…
Yahoo! Launches Yahoo! Video: Half-Functional and Excludes Mac Users
For the PC users out there, this is perfectly fine. For the Mac users out there, this is more ridiculousness from Yahoo that I suppose should be expected by this point. Yahoo! finally managed to roll out Yahoo! Video, which…