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Archive for December 27th, 2004

Your Blog or Mine?

Posted by Alan Henry on December 27th, 2004

A beautiful (albeit long) article in the New York Times about blogging and it’s effect on dating, relationships, social networks, and the lives of bloggers came to the rescue of this morning’s doldrums of reading about politics. The piece follows the cause and effect of blogging about relationships, how blogging has impacted several peoples’ lives. [...]

The PDA, an Endangered Species

Posted by Alan Henry on December 27th, 2004

Many people have been sounding the death toll for the PDA for years now, claiming that they’ll be soon replaced by more versatile devices like smartphones and Blackberries that can stay online all the time, allow users to snag their email wirelessly, browse the web from anywhere using a cellular network, and talk on the [...]

Hackers, Spammers and Spies Want to Invade Holiday Computers

Posted by Alan Henry on December 27th, 2004

If you got a shiny new desktop or laptop this holiday season, you might want to make sure it’s patched up and ready before you send it out onto the net; looks like the predators are right there waiting for your brand new, unpatched and unprepared PC to come online so they can attack it, [...]

Broadband usage jumps 38%

Posted by Alan Henry on December 27th, 2004

Looks like more and more people are switching to broadband, and rightfully so. When I made the switch to broadband, I couldn’t imagine going back to dialup for anything-the difference between using dialup for even things as menial as retrieving email versus broadband were enormous and amazing; and this was before I started doing things [...]

David Pogue Blogs about Firefox in today’s NY Times

Posted by Alan Henry on December 27th, 2004

In a Christmas Eve blog post, David Pouge sings the praises of Firefox, especially in the wake of yet another Internet Explorer vulnerability being found; this time related to exactly how easy it is for phishers to falsify web address information when a user is using IE. His suggestion for keeping safe and secure on [...]