According to Reuters, a hacker named YamaTough that is part of a group called Lords of Dharmaraja and affiliated with Anonymous, has published the pcAnywhere source code. Authorities, pretending to be a Symantec employee, were in negotiations with the hacker ...
Read More »Sprint Updates Epic 4G Removes Carrier IQ
Sprint has quietly updated the firmware for the Epic 4G to Gingerbread 2.3.6 EL30. Since the last update seemed to cause more crashes, I’m hoping some of those bugs have been fixed. Also, when you get a call, the choices ...
Read More »Symantec Hacked By Anonymous
Symantec, makers of Norton Antivirus, Norton Internet Security (and other Norton related products), as well as pcAnywhere, which allows users to access their work computer from home, have announced that they… wait for it… have been hacked by Anonymous and ...
Read More »Samsung Epic 4G Review Part 3 – Android
Originally, I started writing this article about a year ago, right after I got the phone. Then I totally dropped the ball on it, thinking I would wait for the next update of Android. It’s been 2 updates and now ...
Read More »Memorializing Facebook Accounts of Deceased Friends
Hopefully, you won’t have to do this anytime soon, but if a loved one passes away, Facebook has a way for you to memorialize their Facebook page. First, go to their contact page for this purpose as shown below: Fill ...
Read More »How to Set Mailman So Only List Owner Can Post
Since the early days of the Internet, mailing lists have been used and one of the oldest open source free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists is called Mailman. Mailman is the one that usually comes free ...
Read More »HP Customer Support Fail… Again
If you’ve been reading this blog, you know I’ve had bad luck with HP for years, including my current computer’s hard drive blowing up only weeks after I bought it. Well, about a year ago, I bought a 2TB removable ...
Read More »ThinkGeek Turns Siri into Hal 9000
It’s amazing how ThinkGeek has used rapid prototyping to bring a prototype to life so quickly. I want a version of Siri running on my computer interfaced to my home control system and this Hal 9000 box. Or not.
Read More »Rover Remote Control Spy Tank
Brookstone has a new cool gadget that a friend of mine bought. It’s a remote control wireless tank with a built in camera. They are calling it the “Rover Spy Tank.” Nothing new about a remote control tank but this ...
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