Maybe I’m naive, but I had no clue that there was an industry based around being able to trace cell phone numbers. Apparently all you need to do is become a member of one of any number of sites, and start searching away. I decided to test one site, and it was able to accurately […]

As a budding web publisher, I am learning about the ins and outs of supporting myself online. One thing that I came across for determining the ranking and/or value of a site for advertisers and such, is an Alexa rating. Apparently this rating is based in part on the number of times your site is […]

As I mentioned previously, the firewall in Vista is a significant improvement over past attempts by Microsoft. However, there are two distinctly different ways of configuring the firewall(actually, there are more than two, but I’ll show you two).
The first, and perhaps of most interest to the average user, is accessible through the security center area […]

Computer viruses can be a nightmare. I’ve had to deal with my share of them. I can admit that I’ve been caught before myself. I was using one of the free anti virus tools, and it failed to catch a particular trojan that was running amok on my system. I only noticed because my system […]

Please put your “Irony Detectors” in a safe place before reading further. They just might explode. If you believe in free speech online, read further.
India, like many nations in the world, has many deeply religious groups. Often times, these groups believe they have a monopoly on morality, to the extent that they believe theirs is […]

The Yoggie Pico is a security suite for a Windows PC contained in a USB Flash drive. The hardware details of the Yoggie Pico include 128MB of RAM and Flash memory, and a 520MHz Intel XScale CPU. In other words, it is almost a tiny computer. It comes with software that will protect from phishing, […]

Face recognition software, like may things in the technology realm, continues to get better. It is to the point that now, according to the results of a recent contest, that machines can outperform most humans at recognizing faces. The Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 2006 showed that the […]

IPCop is a Linux distribution that is designed with the specific purpose of acting as a firewall/gateway to improve your security. It is loaded with features to accomplish this, yet IPCop does this in as straight forward a way as I can imagine. OK, now what the heck can you do with this you may […]

It didn’t take long for the new Street View feature of Google Maps to cause a stir. A user at Boing-Boing has posted that she managed to find her apartment. In fact, if provides a rather clear look into her window, and shows her cat minding its own business. She mentions that she is concerned […]

Peter Fleischer has posted an opinion piece covering personal search using Google. It addresses the benefits of using this technology, including keeping a history of your searches that can be used to keep searches more relevant to your interests. This is an undeniable advantage to someone looking to get better results.
Of more interest to me […]