Sony sent out an e-mail to advise customers that its Terms of Service & User Agreement and Privacy Policy have been updated for PSN and Qriocity customers. Sony actually does these updates nicely. They provide a webpage where you can see the changes that have been made to the agreements. Crossed-out words are gone and underlined words are new. Most of the changes just seem … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2011
Games Come To Google+
Google has announced today that Google+ is matching Facebook at another point: games. It currently has 16 games available at launch. While there's no Farmville, there are Angry Birds and Zynga (the maker of Farmville) Poker amongst others. While games aren't the feature I've been looking to be added to Google+, I understand that a number of people might be. Google+ seems to … [Read more...]
A Song for Google+
Going from hating it to loving it, Google+ wins people over but when is it going to go public? The rumors of July 31st were clearly wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGugj1ym594 The first 150 people to use this link will be invited to Google+: http://goo.gl/KEWbr … [Read more...]
New Optical Discs Promise Much Greater Durability
Blu-ray discs might have thought it had won the format wars when HD-DVD conceded the fight in 2008 but little did it know that was only a battle in a larger war for the survival of optical discs. Optical media's less obvious opponent? Streaming. The durability of optical media has often been criticized - prone to scratches and breaking, the media can also lose data in extreme … [Read more...]
XKCD on Memorable But Secure Passwords
Today's XKCD comic is too true and it seems to be based on this research paper, The True Cost of Unusable Password Policies: Password Use in the Wild. Unfortunately, I now wonder how many people will set their password to 'correcthorsebatterystaple'. … [Read more...]