As usual, something has been designed without a good forethought on security ramifications. Recovering your computer from thieves sounds great in marketing materials – but it comes with a price. If you have purchased a computer with the ability to contact Lojac, then you are at risk. No you don’t have to subscribe to CompuTrace LoJac – you just have …

Reposting this article – and tweeting it. It was originally published on Aug 2, 2009. Well I’ve been wanting to do this for a while so I finally sat down, googled around, looked at code, and figured out an easy way to embed iPhone video in html. First we need to detect the iPhone’s userAgent string and redirect to another …

Initially I thought there may be some issues with the Farm games on Facebook as I had several customers experience malware issues (pop-ups, Antivirus 2009, etc) all within a short timeframe. The common denominator seemed to be the “farm” games on Facebook. After reading up on the recently revealed zero-day exploit in Flash, I now know that I was close …

It’s no secret that I really love (in a tech sense) my iPhone and iPod. I’m not a Mac user, but I have always respected Steve Jobs. He seems to have an insight into things that is not perfect – but very very good. Here is a speech he gave at Stanford University in 2005. It’s worth listening to.

I’ve just installed Windows XP on a Gateway GT5694 and finding the drivers wasn’t the easiest thing in the world. I’m posting the drivers that I used to install, including the SMBus, Wireless, Video, etc. Be aware that some of these were direct from Gateway and are the Vista drivers which contain the XP drivers as well. A couple were …

Just got my emailed invite from Google Voice! It looks like they might be rolling it out to the full public soon. What is cool about a Google number? It gives you one central number that can ring mulitple devices (cell phone, home phone, office phone, etc). Think about the power of that for a minute. There are also features …

My first attempt to update to the iPhone 3.0 software on Windows XP resulted in a “Hardware Not Found” message when the Windows Hardware Wizard attempted to install the new drivers. Unplugging the phone and plugging back in didn’t help. Pointing the Hardware Wizard to the default driver location didn’t help. Apparently the driver was corrupted? I even tried downloading …

As usual, not a day goes by that the RIAA (Recording Industry A–hole Association) doesn’t prove themselves to be greedy incompetent bastages (reference to Johnny Dangerously). I’ve warned a lot of clients and friends about using caution when posting content online that is not 100% original. Here is a good case for that warning. Warner Music Group: All your memories …

As most of you know, I am absolutely thrilled with my iPhone. It has been the one device that has truly begun to transform how I do things. Here is a quick list: Accepting credit card payments via CC Terminal by Innerfence Time tracking / invoicing via Timewerks Synchronized contacts and calendar by Google Twitter posting via Tweetie Blogging with …

At the suggestion of one of my blog readers (from this post), I have added some donation buttons to the right side of the blog. There are two choices: (1) Using secure PayPal and (2) using my secure Authorize.net payment form. Donations are requested but not required. I post information here for the benefit of everyone, and because I love …