As I continue in consolidating a bunch of stuff in order to make my daily web life a little easier to navigate through one of the things I have been considering the last couple of days involved totally rethinking my stance on web mail apps. I have stated before that I don’t like them [...]
Stowe Boyd has a post today extolling the virtues of the Clear program for airports that enables you to literally go through the airplane boarding process with out any wait or hassle as long as your biometric information on file matches up with the Clear Smartcard that you are issued. That is if you have [...]
The other day I made note in a post about a new pricing policy being instituted by Sunbelt Software for their security related products for the home consumer market. In short what they have decided to do is make all their consumer product licenses unlimited in nature - meaning you buy one license and you [...]
Anti-virus and spyware companies had to be among the first software companies to realize that a cash cow the whole idea of subscriptions on top of already expensive software. In an industry that is built on exasperating fears of infected machines this constant price gouging is one of the reason in my opinion why [...]
February 10, 2008 – 12:58 pm
A good friend of mine who I have known for many years just posted what I consider to be one of the best explanations of what we expect privacy to be in this new day of social networks and government agencies poking their noses where they don’t belong.
Papa’s post is a short one so [...]
February 9, 2008 – 2:56 pm
Everyone just love to toss around the word disruptive these days as if it is the all fixing panacea for our software woes and nowhere more is is being used than in conjunction of another buzz phrase cloud computing. The combination of the two is creating a pie in the sky attitude that by [...]
February 8, 2008 – 4:18 pm
Nat Torkington had an interesting post today where he suggests that by using the new Google Apps - Collaboration Edition you can save yourself a lot of aggravation when traveling anywhere where you might come in contact with the US Border Patrol and the DHS; who have taken up the habit of seizing everything [...]
February 3, 2008 – 2:34 pm
When I was going through my teen years there was no such thing as the Internet; or even its predecessor AARPNET, and much of what we got for news of what was happening in the world came from magazines and newspapers. Even at that point television wasn’t the predominate method of getting news; although [...]
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