If your password is a word, you’ve got a problem. Yes, even if you replaced some of the letters with numbers. Mother’s maiden name as a “secret question”? Not so secret. We’ve all read the…
A few years ago, a friend and I read an article in the New York Times challenging readers to take a “digital vacation” away from their communications devices. If you’re anything like most Americans today,…
The world today was rocked by the sensational revelation that the iPhone is tracking our whereabouts and storing the coordinates in a file on its operating system. I found this terribly fascinating, unlike most of…
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It’s fun to say that the Internet tears down walls and allows a free flow of information around the world. In many ways, it’s true. People can communicate and organize in ways never before possible….
I don’t know about you, but I don’t know my Facebook friends. Well, I know who they are, but I don’t “know” them…most of them, anyway. I knew them at one point, and some I…
Steve Jobs introduced Apple’s next operating system today, Mac OS 10.7, or “Lion”. Part of the announcement is that the iOS App Store, from the iPhone/iPod/iPad universe, will move to all Apple computers. Users will…
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Allow me to geek out a bit. This isn’t anything all that new, but I’d never seen it for myself and thought I’d share a little. Have you ever been walking down the sidewalk or…
Judging by my Twitter feed, Google Voice has been handing out invitations for its newly updated phone and voicemail service. I know this because few people know what to do with it once they’ve got…
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