The year is 2013 and while walking through big box electronics retailers, I still hear the employees making the sales pitch to customers that they should buy a Mac because they don't need antivirus. The security landscape for the Mac OS X operating system has changed and even Apple has taken a step back from its invulnerable stance and to work more with security … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2013
NeverWet hits stores
Rust-Oleum NeverWet is a superhydrophobic coating that has made it to the consumer market. As the name implies, a coating of NeverWet repels liquid and causes it to bead around rather than get absorbed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4PShebMF4Y NeverWet is applied in a two layer coating. The company partnered with Rust-Oleum to bring the product to market. Despite what the … [Read more...]
Making Font Awesome, CloudFront, and Firefox play nice
This new theme utilizes FontAwesome, an iconic font, to adapt to new locations and devices more easily. For example, the search magnifying glass, the RSS feed icon, and a few other icons around the site come from FontAwesome. I use Chrome as my default browser and all looked well and good there. When I was checking over the site in other browsers like Firefox and IE I … [Read more...]
Google Reader’s farewell
As you well know, Google Reader was retired yesterday. It went from the most popular RSS feed reader to defunct in a matter of 3.5 months. Now when you visit google.com/reader, you see the following message: Thank you for stopping by. Google Reader has been discontinued. We want to thank all our loyal fans. We understand you may not agree with this decision, but we hope you'll … [Read more...]
IT jobs – growth and pay
People have different preferences for what matters most to them when it comes to their career. Is it secure? Does it pay well? Is there room for growth? In IT, technological advances can create or destroy job titles at the whim of the market. If you are looking to enter the industry, it's important to try and understand where it is headed. The same is true even if you are just … [Read more...]