Windows
Gartner: Piece Of Tape Defeats Any CD DRM
I like the last line of the article: “Gartner called the DRM scheme a ‘public relations and technology failure.’” A Sharpie is suggested as a better solution than tape in the reader comments. Tom Sanders of vunet.com writes: The highly controversial XCP digital rights management (DRM) technology bundled by Sony BMG on 52 of its [...]
Digg vs. Slashdot
Digg and Slashdot are both powerful in terms of driving traffic, but nobody has yet bothered to compare the quality of comments between the two services. Until now, that is. On any given day, Digg has far more innane comments from immature younger males with no life, while the innane comments on Slashdot tend to [...]
IntelliType Pro v5.5 Keyboard Software
IntelliType Pro software enables you to customize the unique features of your Microsoft keyboard to fit your needs. With IntelliType Pro software, you can reassign many of the keys to open a program, file, or Web page, or to perform commands, such as Find, Show Desktop, or other application-specific functions. You can disable keys you [...]
FeedBlitz
Those of us who are plugged into the technology lifeline have likely used (or at the very least known about) RSS for quite some time now. Most of us are probably eager to admit that syndication has shaved many minutes (or even hours) off of our daily content feedings. When you primarily associate with your [...]
Prevent Computer From Appearing In Browse List (2k/XP)
It is possible to prevent a computer from appearing in the browse list. If you have a computer that does not have any shared resources or if you want to keep a computer secure, you may not want this computer to appear in the general browse list. There are two different methods you can use [...]
Librarians' "Radical" And "Militant" Support For Intellectual Freedom
In acknowledgment of librarians’ efforts to raise awareness of the more overreaching aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act, the American Library Association is offering librarians an opportunity to proudly proclaim their “radical” and “militant” support for intellectual freedom, privacy, and civil liberties. Inspiration for the button’s design came from e-mails obtained from the FBI by [...]
Home Surveillance Camera Catches TV Sportscaster
Those hidden home surveillance cameras catch the darnedest things. The neighbor of a Baltimore TV sportscaster became suspicious when her prescription painkillers began to disappear. A little legwork and surprise, you’re on candid prescription painkiller stealing camera! WBAL TV, the NBC affiliate in Baltimore dishes the goods on the sportscaster charged with burglary and theft…
Google, Sun Backing New Anti-Malware Effort
David Talbot of TechnologyReview.com writes: Major figures at Sun and Google – including Vinton Cerf, one of the inventors of the Internet and now Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist – are backing a new academic anti-malware initiative that aims to spotlight spyware purveyors and ultimately give besieged computer owners simple technologies to guide their Web surfing [...]
P2P Videoconferencing: VSee Shows The Way
If you are looking to try out one of the latest and best performing video conferencing technologies available out there, you have come to the right place. Quietly launched over a year ago from a group of former Stanford graduate students and professors, VSee is a new outstanding P2P video-conferencing technology that integrates text chat, [...]
The User Interface
It’s good to know that many of you are listening to The Chris Pirillo Show (either live on Thursday nights or in a regular ol’ download format). At CES, we had a rather “fun” interview with Chuck Cummins (a Microsoftie partially responsible for the UI in Windows Vista). Lockergnomie Stu Gazzo got a kick out [...]
