Digital Nation, a PBS Frontline documentary, premiered a few days back that talked about the negative affects of our nation becoming increasingly connected. Douglas Rushkoff, our usual dweeby guide into the digital frontier, posed great questions in the documentary, but missed the point entirely. As with a lot of Rushkoff’s reporting he finds the anomalies that [...]
Oh the Apple iPad, how you hearken us toward the sucketh to come. Apple announced its iPad and what is essentially a giant iTouch sans webcam or anything useful. So, in the mode of blogs worldwide, it must be bashed here as well. A lot of hype surrounded the announcement of the iPad on Wednesday [...]
If you’ve been following the Google Hack by China at all you’ll know that the zero-day vulnerability codenamed Aurora (watch it in action on Praetorian Prefect) in Microsoft’s popular Internet Explorer web browser was the cause of the security breaches. After that information was brought out first Germany and now France has advised its citizens [...]
Many people made predictions of what 2010 was to hold. Somehow I managed not to stumble across Rik Myslewski’s article in The Register. Whoops. He paints a poignant picture of corporate techno-conspiracy surrounding the growing embrace of cloud computing and the loss of device control as companies such as Apple and Google tell us what [...]
There is a common misconception that Mac products are geared toward the artistic while Microsoft products are for the absolute beginner. In all of this marketing hype an entire class of open source applications, that perform as well and often better than their proprietary counterparts, gets skipped over. All of the tools compiled below, except [...]