For those that don’t know, police and federal agencies have been keeping tabs on People of Interest (or anyone else) utilizing GPS devices without acquiring any form of warrant or approval nor have they been required to record that they are or have done it.  On the surface, you might be like most Americans and [...]

I have a Love / Hate relationship with my iPad.  I love it as it helps me be more productive be that in meetings, on the road, or just at home sitting on the couch.  In perhaps a bad way, it lets you be connected and do work easily from almost anywhere.  I hate it [...]

A lot of people don’t understand the downfalls of buying music from places like iTunes and Yahoo.  You see, their music is specially formatted with what is called Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology whose goal is to prevent people from listening to music they do not have rights to.  While in concept it is a [...]

Please, just don’t do it – especially if you’re a Windows user.  Ignore that pesky recommendation you get from Apple when upgrading or installing iTunes.

Updated May 10, 2010 - Department of Homeland Security issues threat US-CERT Alert against Apple Safari.

FolderShare is one of those hidden gems out there that I can’t live without.  Originally developed by a company called ByteTaxi, it offers real time synchronization of files between machines via a private peer-to-peer (P2P) network.  Microsoft bought ByteTaxi, Inc. in 2005 and immediately started offering the software for free.

Just want to spread the
word about Mozy - the secure online backup service. 

Everyone should backup their data periodically!  I mean everyone!!  I know, it’s one of those things that you just can’t be bothered with but there are numerous studies that indicate that between 1.5% to 6% of drives will fail in [...]

Now most people won’t give this a second thought but this is just another example of how privacy is slowly but surely going to the wayside…  It seems that various combinations of printers and drivers print microscopic identifiers that are unique to a given printer.  Take the original printed document and you could trace it [...]

Updated – March 12, 2007.  I filed a complaint with the BBB against Shuttle on this issue as they were unresponsive but I’ve decided not to pursue this further. Shuttle is still wrong but it seems that there is also an issue with Microsoft Vista, Nvidia Nforce 3 chipsets, AGP Video Cards, and AMD Dual [...]

Wow! and it’s about time! Real Broadband Access for the Home is finally here!  Verizon FIOS

Finally, internet service that advertises 5mb down/2mb up and delivers.  See the results for yourself at DSL Reports for Verizon FIOS.  Response times are excellent (sub 10ms) and this is sustained bandwidth not peak!