rRhino

Aug 30, 2006 | No Comments

I’ve been an avid reader all of my life, but there have been phases when I haven’t been able to read as much as I’d like to. In fact, I’m in one of those phases right now. My time is spread fairly thin right now since I’m working with four different companies, trying to get [...]

Disable User Account Control In Windows Vista Using Group Policy

Aug 30, 2006 | 9 Comments

Windows Vista uses a feature called User Account Control or UAC to limit the privileges of regular user accounts. UAC ensures that all user accounts that are not part of the local administrators group run with no administrative privileges. This feature is enabled by default. However, in some situations you may want to disable it [...]

Disable User Account Control In Windows Vista Using The Control Panel

Aug 30, 2006 | 2 Comments

Windows Vista uses a feature called User Account Control or UAC to limit the privileges of regular user accounts. UAC ensures that all user accounts that are not part of the local administrators group run with no administrative privileges. This feature is enabled by default. However, in some situations you may want to disable it [...]

How Did You Get My IP Address?

Aug 30, 2006 | 7 Comments

I just read your automated answer to the question I posted, and you’ve got me worried. I can see my IP address in your answer. How did you do that? Does that mean that if I email you you also get my IP address? I’m constantly amazed at how many people are concerned about the [...]

Mobile Web Access: The Wave Of The Future?

Aug 30, 2006 | No Comments

Mobile Web access is a term used to describe accessing the Internet through mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants). Web-enabled mobile devices are becoming more and more common – most cell phones now come with some form of Internet and/or data access feature on them. Mobile Web access has many [...]

"Iceberg Right Ahead!"

Aug 29, 2006 | No Comments

I’m not sure what day we’re on now? We started sailing on Saturday, floated up the coast on Sunday, overwhelmed Juneau yesterday, and… I guess that makes today the fourth day on Holland America’s Alaskan cruise on the Oosterdam. I wish they had Wi-Fi throughout the entire ship! Then again, perhaps it’s better that they [...]

Panorado Flyer

Aug 29, 2006 | No Comments

For travelers, remembering where you took that photo of grandma and your aunt when all you have to go by is a mountain behind them is a little difficult. Thankfully though, there are freeware solutions to come jump to the rescue. Panorado Flyer is a freeware application that will help you match up your photos [...]

9cays

Aug 29, 2006 | No Comments

E-mail is a fantastic tool for communicating in a digital one-on-one fashion, but once you start to expand the number of participants from there, things can begin to get a little crazy. Now, sending out a massive amount of e-mail’s to a list of subscribers is one thing, but just imagine if all of the [...]

Disable User Account Control In Windows Vista Using MSCONFIG

Aug 29, 2006 | One Comment

Windows Vista uses a feature called User Account Control or UAC to limit the privileges of regular user accounts. UAC ensures that all user accounts that are not part of the local administrators group run with no administrative privileges. This feature is enabled by default. However, in some situations you may want to disable it [...]

Well, I'll Be Oosterdamed!

Aug 28, 2006 | No Comments

This week, we’re reporting to you live from Alaska! To be more specific, we’re sitting in the waters of the Pacific Northwest on an Alaskan cruise – being able to get online through the ship’s satellite system, with our personal Internet connection sponsored by Pluggd. As I mentioned at the end of last week, we’ll [...]