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George Orwell’s 1984 and Other Books Go Down Project Gutenberg’s Memory Hole

I still maintain my Palm Tungsten E and one of my favorite activities is reading books by backlight (so as not to wake up my wife) in bed at night. In the last few months I’ve been reading classics like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and George Orwell’s 1984. read more..

MSIE Slow Open Tab - Solved

Disabled FoxyTunes add-on and now opening a new MSIE tab is quick. To fix this, open MSIE, then go to TOOLS >> MANAGE ADD-ONS. Select FOXY TUNES and disable it. Voila, 4+ seconds of your life returned to you each time you open a tab. Here’s how I set my open tab internet options: And my browsing settings: I read more..

Internet Killed the Magazine Star: PC Magazine Goes Digital

PC Magazine dropping print for online PC Magazine, which has documented the explosive growth of the personal computer since 1982, announced on Wednesday that it was dropping its print edition next year and going online only. PC Magazine publisher Ziff Davis Media, which recently exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy, said in a statement that the final edition of read more..

Google Chrome - The evil empire owns your life

Never sign anything that you don’t read. Never agree to an end user license when you don’t know what it says. Watching the google monsters gobble up the internet makes you long for the days when the tech world grew to Bill Gates dreams. Bill got rich, often with buggy bloated read more..

Samsung Sivercare Washer

Here’s a great story from Appliance.Net talking about one of the coolest uses of precious metals around. Getting the smell out of you gym clothes.

New Blackberry Bold has Unlock Codes

UnlockBlackberryBold.com is already offering unlock codes for your Blackberry Bold. They’ve gone a step further than their competitors with an easy-to-follow video. If your BlackBerry is “locked” to a specific network they will help you “unlock” it. All you need to do is purchase the service and send your 15 digit IMEI number and they will read more..

Spam King Murder-Suicide

Spammers are sociopaths. I’ve often said so. Friends and colleagues sometimes consider my views a little over the top, but here’s my shibboleth… would you want your daughter to marry a spammer? I don’t know about you, but I think spammers are below used car salesmen on the food chain. I read more..

Hackers Obtain Critical Internet Flaw

Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers discovered a “critical” flaw that allows “cache poisoning” attacks that tinker with data stored in computer memory caches that relay Internet traffic to destinations. Seeking to keep details of the vulnerability hidden at least a month to give people time to protect computers from attacks, computer industry engineers read more..

30 Months in Prison for Spammer

And sometimes the news is good… NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company’s spam-filtering system. Adam Vitale, 27, was sentenced in federal court in Manhattan after pleading read more..

For $54M, Lose My Laptop… PLEASE!

$500 for the hassle is hardly compensation. It takes days just to get old software installed and a laptop configured, let alone trying to restore backups. BestBuy should be on the hook for damages and penalties related to identity theft linked to the lost laptop. Hard to add that up to $54M, though. Raelyn Campbell read more..