Well I finally bit the bullet and purchased an iPhone. That means I had to port my phone number from Verizon to AT&T – so you may have gotten an “out of service” message yesterday between 5pm and 6pm while the migration took place. Over the last few years, I know that I have stressed the superiority of Verizon’s phone …
Consolidating Email Accounts – There can be only 1
It’s an old dilemma that I encounter frequently – you have a Yahoo!, AOL, Hotmail, and Gmail account. You are tired of logging in to check all of them. Some email programs don’t work well them – for example you have to pay Yahoo $20 a year for features that Gmail offers for free. What do you do? Gmail (or …
Carbonite versus Jungle Disk
Well, it seems that I now have another reason to NOT recommend Carbonite for backup services. As most of you know, I have been using and recommending JungleDisk as my backup service of choice. So far, I’ve been very pleased with its performance, features, and support. It makes recovering from disaster very easy. I can also use it for version …
No Landline and Skype
———From Email———to Rex Moncriefdate Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:41 PMsubject Skype Hey Rex, have some questions about Skype. I don’t want to let my home phone number go, but, I’m tired of paying att too much just for local calls. I know you use Skype and have been using it. I know you like it, too. Is it worth …
Firefox and Direction
I just reviewed a great interview with Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla. If you are using Firefox and are interested in how something free is organized and directed, this is a great video to watch. It takes about 10 mins. http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?p=347 Brendan discusses organizing open source contributors, how Google Chrome is affecting the Firefox strategy, and other things.
Minimum Purchase Amounts
This is one of those little aggravating things that I finally decided to blog about. Have you ever been to a convience store (or some merchant) that required you to purchase at least $5 in order to use your credit card? I’ve encountered this a few times when I stop to get my kids a Dr. Pepper or something – …
Domain Registration and Privacy
================== From Customer Email==================Follow-up via email about the privacy registration. Remember, it doesn’t hurt to do a private registration if you are more comfortable with that. I just tend to be very practical and realistic about things. (1) When you register a domain name, the information that you use is entered into the WHOIS database. This information serves a number …
Picasa for the Mac – finally
While doing some quick research for a customer of mine with a Mac – I ran across the Youtube Video from Google showing off Picasa for the Mac. I’m very glad Google finally released it! http://picasa.google.com/mac/ As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of Google’s products – and I use Picasa to manage all of my pictures . I …
Blogger Issue – java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out
Well this year started out a little shakey on the technology front. I have been attempting to post about malware for 2 hours using my Blogger.com account and kept receiving the following error: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out Just so you know, I use Blogger.com to post my blog to my own webserver using the FTP publishing built into Blogger. This …
Still think your anti-virus helps you
Happy New Year to everyone! Unfortunately, my first post of the new year is not a positive one. For example, malware programs now infect computers and then routinely use their own antivirus capabilities to not only disable antivirus software but also remove competing malware programs. source: http://www.infopackets.com/news/security/2008/20081216_internet_security_is_losing_the_online_war.htm Ok – I’ve been preaching for a long time that your anti virus …