Shared by David K i sympathize... so hard to get anyone to stop using IE... I removed IE from the desktop, taskbar, Start Menu, and even hid the icon in Windows Explorer. I then installed Firefox and Chrome and renamed them both "Internet." But yet somehow my mother-in-law still found a way to use Internet Explorer and wonders why her computer runs […]
Wow. T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidiary that makes the Sidekick, has just announced that they’ve likely lost all user data that was being stored on Microsoft’s servers due to a server failure. That means that any contacts, photos, calendars, or to-do lists that haven’t been locally backed up are gone. Apparently if you don’t turn off your Si […]
The dark days of not being able to get data off your phone are largely over—at least for most smartphone users. With the launch of Best Buy's new mobile service this week called mIQ, there are now a handful of cloud syncing services for a plethora of different devices. The offerings may be similar, but they're not identical, so we thought we'd […]
It started a few years ago when someone discovered some missing content in the PC version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords. They took it upon themselves to to go into the game's files and restore some of the data on their own. Then, someone else encountered a serious bug in the same title and started using the first person […]
More than 10,000 Hotmail passwords were posted online yesterday, but users of other popular webmail services haven't been let off the hook. A similar phishing attack exposed another 20,000 user/password combinations, so consider resetting your own login credentials. The BBC reports seeing a list of 20,000 usernames and passwords at a site normally used […]
Brizzly, the web-based Twitter client that was first unveiled at our Real-Time Stream Crunchup in July, continues to roll out the improvements. After allowing users to upload and host their own pictures on its servers a few weeks ago, last week saw them give the service a significant speed boost, which also brought stream auto-updating. Today, the service ro […]
FCC's Julius Genachowski just took out his mighty sword to kill internet providers' greed-driven traffic filtering, and the fat cats are already attacking. A Comcast fat cat named David L. Cohen, who of course is playing the FUD card. Cohen is Comcast's executive vice-president for broadband. And of course, he believes that the FCC should get […]
AT&T's network is basically a huge failure. And if you want to fix their incompetence in your area, you'll need to pay an additional $150 for a 3G MicroCell. I call bullshit. Danny touched on this earlier, but the logic here is blowing my mind. How little regard for your customers do you have to have to offer a product that fixes your own produ […]
It's not a clever hack any of us want to have to use, but the Art of Manliness blog has a homebrew fix for the next time your restroom trip ends in disaster. Photo by powerbooktrance. When a toilet clogs, the first jobs are stopping water from flowing to prevent an overflow and finding a decent plunger. Then again, if you're visiting a friend' […]
Windows: Thanks to Google's drive to add more and more books to the Google Books project, including thousands of public domain volumes, you'll find quite a nice selection to choose from. Google Book Downloader helps you download them to PDF. Update: It's come to our attention that use of this application is locking some users out of Google Boo […]