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From eWeek: Keylogging programs are the epitome of online stealth, and they’re also a mushrooming problem on the Internet, where identity and intellectual property thefts are fueling an explosion of key-capture tools. Reports of new keylogging programs soared higher this year, as part of a wave of multifunction malware with integrated keylogging features, according to …
From the New York Times: When Michelle Dubé, a golf instructor in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., finishes a lesson, she whips out her BlackBerry wireless device – to schedule the next appointment, sure, but also to swipe the student’s credit card for payment right there on the driving range. It takes only a few seconds, …
This is going to be a long post… As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I have ads on my site. I am part of the Google Adsense program. I recently noticed that on Saturday, November 5, 2005, my reports indicated that there was a search done using my code, and an ad was clicked on. But …
I read about this in the Unofficial Microsoft Office Stuff blog: What is original fifties clipart? Most communities in the fifties had small town print shops that doubled as printers of local news and advertising papers. These printers could not afford graphic artists so they used stock clipart supplied by large companies who distributed common …
From the New York Times: Everywhere you look, the electronics industry seems to be playing its own mutant variations of limbo. But the question isn’t “How low can you go?” At Dell, it’s “How cheap can you go?” At Apple, it’s “How cool can you go?” And at Microsoft’s Windows division, it’s “How slow can …
Amazing stuff from the The Unofficial Google Weblog: I find myself browsing through the Google Video blog tonight as a last-ditch avoidance of sleep. (I hit Starbucks at 7pm; a lethal REM-killing tactic.) I can do without the Hilary Duff video of which Google seems to be proud. And all those cooking clips? Please—enough. But …
From MSNBC: In a deal aimed at reducing illegal Internet traffic in pirated films, Hollywood reached an agreement Tuesday with the creator of the popular file-sharing software BitTorrent. The agreement requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to prevent his Web site, bittorrent.com, from locating pirated versions of popular movies, effectively frustrating people who search for …
From TechRepublic: Ever since Edward R. Murrow and Ed Sullivan were doing their thing in black and white, the living room television has been the centerpiece of home entertainment. Then, somewhere along the way, a lot of folks in the high-tech industry got it into their heads that families should gather around the PC to …
Last week I discussed flash use in digital photography. This week I will discuss some of the many ways you can use your digital photographs this coming Christmas. The photographs you make may be printed, put in an album and emailed to friends. But what else can you do with them. With Christmas coming up, …
As the world becomes one big marketplace, it becomes increasingly more important to understand things as simple as time zones and business hours around the world. One of the first reviews I ever did was for a product called ActiveEarth by Logos Systems Research. They have since moved on to other software, but one of …