2007 February

An update for the Parallels Desktop for Mac has just been released and is a free upgrade for all existing Parallels Desktop for Mac users.
The Parallels beta allowed Windows to run simultaneously on any Intel Mac, but with this update Parallels can bypass Windows altogether and run Windows Apps directly in the Mac OS, […]

This has to be the most hair brained product idea I’ve ever seen. The Multimedia Remote Control Wrangler looks a bit like underwear but it is worn on your head and you attach your TV remote and other remotes to it using Velcro. Yes, you did read that correctly, your HEAD! Just take a look […]

Last week I wrote about Columbia Professor: Cell Phone Carriers Limiting Innovation and ranted a bit about Verizon’s silly policies on third party apps. Apparently, T-Mobile is playing the same game.
This means T-Mobile feature phone users are prohibited from surfing the Web with Opera Mini, checking maps on Google Local for Mobile, listening to […]

If the Independent International Investment Research Group has its way, Google could lose the Gmail name. The group already won the rights to the Gmail trademark in the United Kingdom and is now bringing its fight to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.)
IIIR wants the USPTO to nullify Google’s ownership of the Gmail trademark; […]

Representatives Rich Boucher (D-Va.) and John Dolittle (R-Calif.) introduced the “Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship” Act to Congress. The bill dubbed, The Fair Use Act, should make it easier and legal for consumers to copy content for their own personal use, if passed and signed into law.
“The fair use doctrine is threatened today as […]

Mesa Dynamics has published a free program called Amnesty Generator which converts Google, Grazr, PicGames, and SpringWidgets widgets and You Tube videos into Vista Sidebar Gadgets or Widgets for the OS X Dashboard.
Converting is simple, just copy and paste the HTML code for almost any web widget directly into Amnesty Generator and generate a […]

The US Court of Appeals For the First Circuit has reaffirmed that the same broad protections that protect web sites also protect bloggers and message board operators from being sued for what their user’s posted.
“[No] provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided […]

Ollie Whitehouse, an architect at Symantec’s advanced threats research team, found that Hackers can exploit Windows Vista’s User Account Control to hide malware, reports PC World.
Windows Vista’s User Account Control (UAC), a system that Microsoft says makes the new operating system safer from attack, can be spoofed and shouldn’t be completely trusted, a Symantec researcher […]

An American Apparel outlet and a Reebok store were bombed last week. No, not in real life, but in SecondLife, an Internet-based virtual world developed by Linden Lab.
A group calling themselves the “Second Life Liberation Army (SLLA,) staged the first online terrorist attack. The group is calling for the “establishment of basic rights for Second […]

A blogger going by Brendan is alleging that Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, John Cox, Newt Gingrich, Tom Tancredo, and even the Whitehouse.gov web sites are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities.
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is a type of security vulnerability found in web pages that allow code injection. Malicious links can be created […]

With a few tools, some free time to spare, and steady nerves you could replace a broken LCD screen on your notebook. But, keep in mind that doing so would certainly void your warranty.
Replacement screens only cost a few hundred dollars and these directions don’t seem to difficult to follow. It might be worth giving […]

Apple aired a television commercial for the iPhone during the 79th Annual Academy Awards Show tonight. The ad aired at 8:51PM EST, and featured TV and movie scenes of many famous actors answering telephones throughout the years. It began with Lucielle Ball and ended with Mr. Incredible.

Notice how they didn’t specifically call it the […]

“Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista at retail stores significantly trailed those of Windows XP in each product’s first week on shelves, according to new figures from NPD,” reports CNET.
The market research firm’s data showed the number of copies of Vista purchased was nearly 59 percent less than the number for its predecessor XP, […]

The IRS is being urged to request eBay and other auctions sites to report user’s earnings to the government so they can levy taxes on these earnings, reports SFGate.
When it comes to paying income taxes, eBay’s legions of small-time entrepreneurs are on an honor system in which they are supposed to declare their profits to […]

Edward N. Albro and Eric Dahl of PCWorld have published what they dislike most about Window’s Vista.
While it covers about 13 gripes, only 11 of them apply to all versions of Vista. But in any case, I think the list is lacking several other major complaints. Read through my series of Vista posts for a […]

Alright, we’ve been following the RIAA’s increasingly frequent affronts to privacy and free speech lately, and it’s about time we stopped merely bitching and moaning and did something about it. The RIAA has the power to shift public policy and to alter the direction of technology and the Internet for one reason and one reason […]

Lots of blogs are displaying MyBlogLog widgets and include the MyBlogLog tracking javascript code on their sites, including mine. However, it has just been discovered that MyBlogLog has the ability to track ad views and clicks.
I’m not too sure how I feel about this. At times I get really sick of the headaches MyBlogLog causes, […]

Science be damned! There are radio waves killing us all and only a tin foil hat can fully protect us! It also helps to wrap your genitals. Don’t forget to line your walls and windows and then seal all the joints with packing tape. Don’t worry about the lack of air holes. You’ll still be […]

If you registered your domain name with RegisterFly I would immediately start trying to transfer your domain to another domain name registrar. If for any reason the transfer is unsuccessful, I’d get another domain name from another registrar very soon, and if your domain is close to expiring you might want to setup a 301 […]

The RIAA wants to be able to hold the owner of an ISP account responsible for any activity on their connection, according to WIRED. If the judge grants this motion anyone operating an open WiFi access point liable for the illegal actions of anonymous users connected to it. This could essentially end the idea of […]