Have you ever had an ad come onto the TV or radio with an opening line like "Are you a 55 year old woman that took Metabolife between 2001 and 2005?" Since they asked a question, the polite thing to do is to answer them. I can usually tell them 'no' 99% of them time. Despite responding with 'no', they continue to waste their time and mine for the next 30 seconds, minute, or … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2011
AVG’s Second Quarter Report Shows Malware Trends Across Multiple Platforms
Antivirus software is installed around the world and gets to see (and hopefully stop) a lot of malicious attempts to infect a computer. AVG has compiled their data from the second quarter of what their anti-virus and Internet Security software has recognized in the AVG Community Powered Threat Report - Q2 2011 (pdf). The numbers are nicely graphed out to make it quite apparent … [Read more...]
The End Of The Camera Focus May Be Upon Us Thanks To Lytro’s Light Field Technology
Lytro is a new company that is bringing years of academic research to the consumer electronics market. Their big break-through is related to the digital camera and allowing you to define where you want to focus of the image to be after the picture is taken. Remember when you learned with modern cameras how to do that half-button press thing so the focus will grab what you're … [Read more...]
Google Takes Strides Against Insecure Javascript
In the past few days, Google's Online Security blog has made a few posts related to closing the security hole that Javascript opens. As a popular vector for infecting site visitors, Google is helping where they can - inside the Google Chrome browser. Mozilla Firefox has its add-on, NoScript, which helps secure users with it installed from malicious Javascript on webpages. While … [Read more...]
A Few YouTube Easter Eggs
YouTube has a few easter eggs that are good for a laugh or two. The arcade game, Snake With any YouTube video, you can press up while it's loading to play the game Snake. You can also hold the left arrow key down so the video rewinds to the beginning and then press the up arrow key to more reliably get the game to load. Then you have classic snake. Eat the apples (blinking … [Read more...]