Since not everyone has their own in-house librarian, Aardvark is a service that may be of interest to you. Publicly launched in October 2009, Aardvark didn't take long to get a lot of attention and was just acquired by Google this month. Aardvark, found at vark.com, is a social search engine that doesn't seek to return pages but instead responses from people with knowledge in … [Read more...]
Archives for 2010
Follow-Up: Firefox Phishing Site Taken Down
I got a lot of positive feedback on my article Is Your Firefox Genuine? Phishing at its Phinest! where I identified a site that had repackaged Mozilla Firefox and wrapped it up in a bunch of malware. The site was getting a decent amount of traffic, I suspect, because it was advertising itself well and was often the top sponsored result for Firefox-related searches on Bing. I … [Read more...]
The Bad Buzz for Google Buzz
There has certainly been plenty of articles making the rounds of tech news sites covering Google Buzz, so I don't feel like I need to cover the topic of what it is and what its purpose is. More interesting to me, however, is the privacy concerns, security issues, and backlash that Google is receiving. After all the hype of Google Wave died down and resulted in a hardly used, … [Read more...]
GPO Deploying Adobe Reader 9.3.1
Adobe is in rapid-fire for releasing updates lately and with the bugs, crashes, and exploits that keep being discovered, they need to be. A few days over a month after version 9.3 patches were released for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, 9.3.1 is released to address further concerns From the related Adobe Security Bulletin: A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe … [Read more...]
Putting your Idle Computer to Good Use
With today's high processor clock speeds and multiple cores, almost every home user has a few processor cycles to spare. The question is, what do we do with them and how do we make use of them for good? Distributed volunteer computing uses software and hundreds to thousands of computers around the world to create a super computer via the Internet. Distributed computing or grid … [Read more...]