Monthly Archives: June, 2012
Anticipating Windows 8
Last week, I downloaded and installed the Release Preview of the upcoming update to Microsoft Windows named Windows 8 (Win8). This version of the software is pre-released software, released primarily for application developers to continue to write apps for it, but it also allows others who consider themselves to be “early adopters” to use the …
Email options
In this post, I thought I’d discuss personal email, specifically where to host it and some thoughts around what to look for. There are a plethora of email options out there. An informal survey indication that most folks use either the email address provided by their ISP (e.g., comcast.com, verizon.net, rr.net) or one of the …
FLASH: LinkedIn and eHarmony passwords stolen
As you’re likely aware, there were two major players who had their systems compromised by hackers and they were able to collect the hashed versions of the passwords collected, 6 million from LinkedIn and 1.5 million from eHarmony. As most media is reporting, these breaches are serious and will provide the ‘bad guys’ yet more …
Don’t get too close to the “flame” …
There has been a particularly nasty bit of malware roaming around the net for a while, but just surfaced within the past couple weeks. It’s in the form of malware that masquerades as a legitimate Microsoft update, but the “update” really is spyware, that can do anything while on your computer including reading your key …
Tech Tidbit: MobileMe vanishes June 30th
This is only applicable for folks who were MobileMe users. As you’re probably aware, Apple’s MobileMe service (http://me.com) has been replaced by iCloud (http://icloud.com). If you are a MobileMe customer, you should have received a notice on June 1st from Apple announcing that MobileMe is getting shut down at the end of the month. …
Social Media Will
So, I was ambling about the Net the other day and tripped over this interesting report from Jessica Hopper at the NBC show Rock Center. It describes the difficulty for the family of a young suicide victim to get access to the loved one’s Facebook and email accounts, since in the 21st century, digital assets have …
