We all see phishing emails all the time these days. In fact, I just cleaned out probably 300+ from the 4000 spam emails in my customer’s spam filter this morning. A phishing email is an email that is faked from a bank or similar in order to get you log into a fake site so […]
Many people keep asking me about Windows XP. The main question is “How much longer can I get it?”.
Well first of all, I have to say that I think you are making mistake (in general) staying with Windows XP, unless you are a large with hundreds of systems to support. Windows Vista is better, much […]
Have you heard of a company that has been fully in business and fully operational for just a couple of months getting acquired? Actually, I take that back. In today’s super crazy business world, it wouldn’t even surprise me to hear about Google buying a three month old startup… but I digress.
So as of […]
WARNING: Mainly non-business post to follow (it is Saturday after all)… though there is a good point about Windows Vista at the end.
Today I went looking for a “podcatcher”. Podcatcher is the informal term for “podcast aggregator” which is basically a software program that downloads podcasts to your computer or other device. Podcasts are basically […]
Anybody in the tech business these days spends (or doesn’t but should be spending) a lot of time on security. Depending on who your guy (girl) is, you sacrifice a significant amount of functionality and/or flexibility in the name of remaining secure. At Trimtab, we do tend run our businesses on the secure side, but […]
So today I was working on devising this great way to export and reformat playlists from iTunes to my network drives where they could be picked up and played on my Windows Media Center in the front room so that I don’t have to create playlists in two different places/software (which I was successful at!). […]
WARNING: Geeky post to follow this time. Just wanted to warn you.
I could be a little bit premature on this, but from what I can tell, Adobe AIR absolutely rocks. What Adobe AIR is essentially is a cross platform runtime environment for application development. In somewhat more plain english, Adobe AIR is a free program […]