Happy Earth Day 2011! I was hoping to add solar panels to my home this Spring but the local vendor never got back to me. After crunching some numbers, with current solar panel prices/efficiency, electricity usage, and incentive rebates I decided to put the extra money towards the mortgage as a wiser investment. I'll be looking to install solar panels at a later date but for now … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2011
Adobe Releases Acrobat 10.0.3, Acrobat 9.4.4, and Reader 9.4.4 Patches Today
Beating their own deadline set 6 days ago to have the latest Flash vulnerability patched in Acrobat X and Acrobat/Reader 8 & 9 by the week of April 25th, Adobe released Acrobat 10.0.3 (.pdf) and Acrobat/Reader 9.4.4 (.pdf) today. Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.0.2) and earlier 10.x and 9.x versions for Windows and Macintosh … [Read more...]
Take Your Sync-ed Files With You With Dropbox Portable
Dropbox is a service that I've recommended before which is useful for syncing files from your desktop to the cloud (free, up to 2GB of storage) and access to your files wherever you are could easily become something you start taking for granted. Dropbox has official apps for Android and iPhone so you can synchronize files to your smartphone. There's also the web interface that … [Read more...]
Reddit is Down, Amazon Blamed 2 – This Time With Confirmation
Just a little over a month ago, a bit of controversy flared up as a result of Reddit's error message. They implied Amazon web services were to blame but the Amazon AWS status page didn't reflect the same problems. A nice, long article resulted from the incident to explain why Reddit was down for 6 hours out of 24. This morning, the popular site is down again and blaming Amazon … [Read more...]
HBO Go – Free and Legal HBO Streaming With Lots Of Fine Print
On May 2nd, HBO is introducing HBO Go, a program to introduce streaming to HBO content, for free to HBO subscribers. I recently joined that group because of the Game of Thrones series that started last Sunday. I know many cordcutters were hoping that HBO Go would be a means for viewing HBO content without having to have an HBO subscription or a cable/satellite provider. … [Read more...]