New Email Virus Threatens Facebook Users
A new virus known as “Bredolab” has been identified and is spreading at breakneck speed through the Facebook user base. It appears as an email with the title “Password Reset Confirmation Email” and has an attachment that supposedly contains the recipient’s new Facebook password.
Stream Netflix right to your television.
Released in May 2008, the Netflix streaming player ? developed by Roku, a company specializing in the delivery of digital media ? enables subscribers to Netflix? traditional mail-order service to stream a select number of movies to their television sets. Initially,...
Lessons from Microsoft/Danger and T-Mobile’s Sidekick Fiasco
You may have already heard about the colossal failure of Microsoft and Danger's "cloud" system, resulting in the loss of roughly 800,000 T-Mobile users' cell phone data. The unique method T-mobile employed to manage their customers data experienced a catastrophic...
Can your computer handle Windows 7?
Windows 7 is upon us, ushering in the latest era of Microsoft?s Windows Operating System. Faster and more functional, with less bloat than previous iterations, Windows 7 has been introduced to a surprisingly receptive audience. But all fanfare aside, the question of...
A simple alternative to your current word processor.
Whether we?re typing out a quick memo or writing a letter to a friend, word processors are invaluable tools that provide the means to draft documents when needed. Word is the most widely used solution in this regard, but it?s packaged with Microsoft Office, a software...
Sometimes, history is best forgotten — on Firefox
We?re all guilty of happening upon a website from which we?d like to quickly exit. Even if just the result of an inadvertently clicked link, our travels on the web will always consist of visits to sites which are best tucked in the remote corners of our memory. If...
Virgin America & Google’s Free WiFi for the Holidays: What You Need to Know
Virgin America has teamed up with Google to offer customers free in-flight WiFi between November 10th, 2009 and January 15th, 2010. If you get the opportunity to take advantage of this special offer from Virgin America, the security of your internet will probably be...
Quicktime just became lighter.
Long considered the most popular alternative to Microsoft Windows Media Player, Apple?s Quicktime is a platform that supports multiple forms of media ? music, text, video, etc. For users who wish to use it without the bloat, there is a decidedly slimmer version...
You can now view NBC Sunday Night Football on your computer
Six games into the new NFL season, the contagious fanaticism of football season is upon us, from chatter at work to discussions amongst friends and family about how the teams are faring. As a devout follower of the NFL, having some means -- any means -- to watch the...
ALT-TAB has grown a bit stale
As any veteran of Microsoft?s Windows Operating System knows, the ALT-TAB function is a convenient way to immediately switch from one application to another, underscoring Windows? multi-tasking properties. Like many features within Windows, while extremely functional,...