So I walked to the mailbox to collect the daily dose of bills and snail mail spam. Usually it’s a local ad flyer or a letter stating that a bill is coming (yes, I get those). I didn’t expect this letter… The email came from Google. Since I have accounts from Google, I’ve seen these […]
The BBC reports that about 50 virus-infected apps have been removed from the Android Marketplace. Apparently, the authors of the malware took legitimate apps, injected them with malware, and then republished them under under a different name from the legitimate author. From the story: The virus-laden apps were discovered by a Reddit user called Lompolo […]
Last week I spent some time putting together new photos for Geekazine. I snapped about 50 of them in front of the green screen. With a little photoshop help, I put them together for some of the best pictures. Which ones do you like? Which one should be the main photo? I am privy to […]
This week I talk about what to expect on the Apple event on Wed. I suggest two items to the event – Thunderbolt on an iPad and iPhone5 and a way to tether the two. Will this change your thoughts to purchasing an iPad 2 and iPhone 5? Will Verizon have a bigger role in […]
The two heavy-weights of podcatchers in the Linux world are GPodder (a graphical program) and bashpodder (a command line program with an optional GUI front-end). Almost as long as I have been listening to podcasts, I’ve been using Podracer as my podcatcher, but I have never heard of anyone else who uses it. I find […]