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LastPass Learns Dirty Tricks From Dear Old Dad
We’re at about the midpoint of the LastPass remake of Breaking Bad, where its misdeeds are starting to be glaring and it’s hard to be sympathetic. We’ve seen the show. We know how it ends. See, LastPass is following a path that was first blazed by its corporate parent...
BLOG AGGREGATORS
If you're interested in technology, one of the first sites to check in the morning is TechMeme, a wildly popular service that checks thousands of blogs and news sites and...
KEEPING UP WITH BLOGS
Let's talk about blogs and RSS feeds. It might have more relevance than you think.If you're like most people, most of your web surfing time is spent visiting the same few web...
APPLE DOES A FUNNY
Those funny guys at Apple! It's just a laugh a minute over there.In Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard," this is the image used to represent each Windows computer on a network. It's an old CRT...
RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR COMPUTERS
I wish we could count on the software and hardware vendors to play fair and treat us well, but it's not happening. We have to take responsibility for our computers.When Windows...
LEOPARD VS. VISTA
The nonstop criticism of Vista has been getting me down, and Apple's release of Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard" has been greeted with so much overhyped enthusiasm that I began to wonder if...
THE WIRELESS FUTURE
Wireless technology is a blur of confusing acronyms and frequent frustration, but we are making progress and there continues to be hope that more and more wires will disappear in...
ACROBAT 8.1.1 UPDATE
Do not open unexpected PDF e-mail attachments!Do not open any unexpected e-mail attachments!Got that? Good. Then we can move on to an important security update from Adobe.If you...
SEND TEXT MESSAGES BY E-MAIL
You can send e-mail messages and have them show up as a text message on an SMS-enabled phone, if you know the cell phone carrier used by the recipient. Here's a list that may...
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRE MAPS
The Google Maps team put together this list of maps that have information about the devastating fires in Southern California. According to the Los Angeles Times, almost a million...
SAMSUNG i760
For some reason Verizon has not attempted to generate any excitement about the new Samsung i760 cell phone/PDA, even though it looks very nice and perhaps is even a worthy...
BITTORRENT & BAGGAGE NEUTRALITY
Advocates of "network neutrality" have trouble conveying the real world implications of an arcane-sounding technical issue. Two items in the news help illustrate why it's an...
WINDOWS LIVE PHOTO GALLERY
Microsoft has an appealing new program for displaying and sharing your photos. There is no shortage of photo programs and online services, but if you haven't committed to any of...
HACKERS MOVING AWAY FROM WINDOWS
There's some evidence that Windows has become secure enough that the bad guys that write viruses and rootkits and phishing attacks are looking elsewhere.It's anecdotal so far and...
RIAA SUES USENET.COM
The first rule of Usenet is, you don't talk about Usenet.Careful observation of that rule has allowed Internet newsgroups to avoid getting involved in the entertainment...
TOP 100 BLOGS
Looking through blogs ("web logs") occupies most of my web-surfing time these days. Everybody has heard the term but some people aren't sure what a blog is or where to find...