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I have spent a number of years following backup services and discovering new ones. Some are good, some are bad, but one that slipped under my radar was a service called SpiderOak. I was contacted by Ethan Oberman, co-founder, for this relatively new service and I was, of course, ready to experience
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First off, this is the article that almost didn't happen. If you don't want to hear this, just skip down to the "All That Aside" heading below, but I encourage you to first read through my little "aside" here first so you can understand what's happening in this article since it doesn't follow stan
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Ever noticed in Gmail, Twitter or Facebook how the last portion of the URL (the so-called "hash") changes with each navigation, while the actual URL remains the same? This unique AJAX technique, employed by some of the top current Web 2.0 apps, has many benefits besides usability: it actually sav
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I realize that we're probably going to get flagged for this big-time, but just to clear things up: this may not necessarily be strictly for malicious purposes, nor is it intended to be (the full disclaimer is at the end of this article). This is a simple guide for setting up a phishing website using
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So somebody sends me this: http://quaoar.ww7.be/ms_fud_of_the_year/569458-microsoft-attack-linux-retail-level-probably.html Words cannot describe the rage I feel as a result, but read on for a pretty decent attempt. Get The Facts V2 So Microsoft has been both sued and accused of falsifyi
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Google: If they ever make any change to their front page, it's usually just a link to a new product/service or merely swapping out their logo to celebrate some event (including April Fool's). But now the search engine giant is radically changing their entire search engine, behind the scenes at l
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So Twitter is down today along with Facebook, LiveJournal, and other miscellaneous social media outages/slowdowns. Is this the finally rise of Conficker, the "sleeping bear" virus? In a word, I have no idea nor do I have confirmed reports. But, you could always go check your Aunt's computer
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This is an experimental way to accomplish the implementation of a background app/daemon on an Apple iPhone. As of this writing, the iPhone SDK does not allow the development of "true" Unix-style background processes (daemons) within the iPhone OS (which itself is based on Darwin Unix). This metho
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The school year returns and its time to buy your kids a computer. A friendly warning from me to you is "Your knowledge of buying cereal does not qualify you to intelligently purchase a computer." But we will try to help you get the most for your money instead of being swindled out of your cash by
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The Coffee Desk will be going down for a major server move and some routine maintenance for around 45 minutes to an hour today starting around 4:00 - 4:30 Eastern Mountain Time. Our Twitter profile can be used to track the upgrade's progress as it happens. The move is largely a front-end serve
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