Archive for March, 2006
Long file name problems when burning CDs
These days it is common to have files with names that are very long. One frequent occurrence of this is in Internet Explorer favorites. In order to improve their listings in search engines, people sometimes pile a whole lot of descriptive material into the titles of their Web Pages. IE stores each favorite as a [...]
Ditch your phone company?
Anyone who is my age remembers the days when the monolithic Ma Bell controlled most of the telephone communications in the US. AT&T was the local phone service, the long-distance service, and the provider of telephone equipment. Aside from a few local independent companies and one or two slightly bigger mavericks, AT&T was the [...]
New type of antispyware- SiteAdvisor
Speaking of bad Internet neighborhoods, here is a new way to help you avoid them. Internet Week has an article on a new service that surveys sites on the Web and then rates them for activity such as downloading unwanted spyware on you.
SiteAdvisor, which is currently in beta (or, as they call it on [...]
