Sep 30, 2012 | IE, Internet, Outlook, security, spam
Here’s a simple tip that might help you avoid an encounter with the bad guys trying to break into your computer. There has been a sharp increase in the number of malicious email messages with links that lead to poisoned web sites. The messages might appear to be from...
Apr 3, 2012 | bruceb, Internet
https://www.bruceb.com/favorites My loyal friends and clients know that I am inordinately proud of the Bruceb Favorites page. I want to show it off to all the new subscribers to the Bruceb News mailing list. The Bruceb Favorites page is a simple directory of obvious...
Jan 19, 2012 | computers, Internet, security, Vista, Windows7, WinXP
These are the rules for being safe using a Windows computer in 2012. Memorize them, forward them to your friends, post them on Facebook, alert the troops, sound the alarm, and walk from door to door passing them out to your neighbors! If a web site brings something up...
Jan 10, 2012 | DRM, Internet, law, Politics
Noted science fiction author and Boing Boing curator Cory Doctorow delivered an important speech last month in London, explaining why attempts by copyright owners to lock down computers and web sites inevitably lead to surveillance and censorship, and how the...
Dec 9, 2011 | Android, Internet, web_services
Reddit has become one of the most popular sites on the Internet. It didn’t happen overnight – Reddit has been around for five years – but 2011 is when it came into its own and became a social force. It is a firehose of posts submitted by its users, loosely organized...
Sep 25, 2011 | broadband, hardware, Internet, network
The request was deceptively simple: Six very small offices want to share a single Internet connection. Each office wants to have a secure network for its own computers, not shared with the other offices. The offices want to share a single big Toshiba eStudio...
