Gizmag describes the new technology, making it possible for blind computer users to make much, much better use of computers.
TechRepublic has an excellent video, and a text article. I have been slow in moving toward Vista, but I now have a few installations to deal with. The basis of this video and article is that often one wants to have extra backups of certain critical files. I do this because quite frequently I want…
MSNBC’s Red Tape Chronicles has an entry titled Companies’ Online Reputations Scrubbed Clean, which discusses a company that will cleanse your reputation by pushing negative stories lower in the ratings. A Google spokesman indicates this is perfectly fine with them, as long as you don’t use spammy techniques to do so. This reminded me of…
If you’re not subscribed to various useful blogs on TechRepublic, you should be. I get a great deal of information from that source. For those who may not be subscribed, or who haven’t seen it yet, let me recommend Video: Three ways you might be breaking the law with your computer (there’s also a text…
Opensource.com provides some important predictions about AI over the coming year.
This is the second part of the video I embedded from YouTube yesterday. While I am interested in the part about IT as it hits close to home, even for someone on the “old-ward” slide from full time IT, I’m even more interested in the policies and pressures on business that tend to make consolidation…
TechRepublic has been running some of the humor of customer support, most of which has to do with clueless users and how funny some of their responses are. I am acquainted with this kind of humor and occasionally pass some of it on myself. I also know some stories of really dumb tech support guys,…
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