This weekend I had to fix my dad’s computer after it got a Scareware popup. This Scareware was rather different than anything I’d approached before; when the popup appeared asking him to purchase via credit card some bogus software to…
It’s Patch Tuesday, which means my poor laptop is getting slammed with a major update for Windows Vista. It has been sitting and installing “component 15 of 16” for more than two hours. I’m tempted to halt it and let…
I have been using Facebook for a couple of years, since my teens signed onto it. It started out that I was just trying to keep an eye on their online activities; I banned them from MySpace because of safety…
Our department was presented with this video yesterday during a strategic planning session. I found some of the statistics fascinating, and thought some others would too. I’ve been using the “Internet” for more than 20 years, and I’ve seen a…
CFI Group has released its most recent figures for smart-phone providers. The list includes AT&T, Sprint/Nextel, and Verizon, among others. According to the survey, Verizon smart-phone users ranked the carrier positively 79% of the time; Sprint/Nextel smart-phone users liked their…
There’s this guy who’s been recording his whole life and putting it on hard drive. Or CD. Either way, some are saying he’s “downloading his brain to a computer.” Not exactly, although putting that description in a headline did catch…
I have just spent a nightmare six weeks at work while we moved a computer lab and two dozen faculty and staff offices within a building. Through a seemingly random series of stops and starts, we have finally landed in…