Archive for November, 2009
Reading for a long weekend
Tomorrow is the American Thanksgiving holiday and many will be taking a long weekend off. That includes me and the blog will resume on Monday. In the meantime, here is a collection of links for weekend reading:
Does Amazon know where it’s going with the Kindle?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes says Amazon has dropped the ball by not [...]
Disk defragmenters
Defragmenting your hard drives is one of those computer maintenance chores that has to be done now and then. In Windows Vista and 7, defragging is pretty much automatic with a default setting that runs the built-in Windows utility once a week in the background. Thus, most home PC users with Vista/7 no longer need [...]
Beware the 12 scams of Christmas
The holiday season is big business for everybody, including scammers. In an interview with CNET, security firm McAfee gives its list of the 12 scams of Christsmas. Slightly paraphrased, these are:
Charitable phishing scams
Fake invoices from delivery services
Phony social networking friend requests
Fake holiday e-cards
Fake “luxury” jewelry
Hacked or phony holiday shopping sites
Sites with Infected Christmas carol lyrics
Job [...]
