Well it’s official – eBay has sold Skype in a deal worth a couple of billion dollars. It also appears the Skype may be getting ready for an IPO and going public. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23623&tag=nl.e539 Why is this interesting? Many of you have asked me how the current lawsuit will affect Skype usage in the future. Many of you have loved ones …
Cars.gov – You or a dealer can agree to let the Feds Snoop
Thanks for point this out to me Bill. It’s a toss up on whether to post this here or on my political blog. I hate the Obama Administration and Congress (both sides of the aisle) – and people were worried about NSA wiretaps? Right. Here is the summary: If you are dumb enough to agree to cars.gov, then you agree …
Fake BSOD – Blue Screen of Death
———— It infects Windows machines via fake codec and fake Flash Player update packages planted on malicious Web sites.———— http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3912&tag=nl.e550 I’ve been preaching about this for some time now – one of the worst things about sites such as MySpace is when users are prompted to download and install something to watch a video. It happens far too often-and not …
Trouble with Bellsouth and Yahoo email
Retweeted: 3-25-2010 ATT did a stupid partnership deal with Yahoo a couple of years ago to provide email services through Yahoo, and they have done it without proper warning to customers. That means that some of you using services such as Gmail to pop3 your Bellsouth email in – suddenly find it not working. I’ve also had customers who try …
Want LoJac for your Laptop? Think again.
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 …
Embedding iPhone Video
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 …
Reasons for the recent issues on computers – Flash
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 …
Steve Jobs Commencement Speech at Stanford 2005
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.
Gateway GT5694 with Windows XP
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 …
Got my Google Voice Number
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 …