WebOS 1.4.5 Released
My Palm Pixi is installing it right now. It appears to be just minor fixes. Details here.
My Palm Pixi is installing it right now. It appears to be just minor fixes. Details here.
Back in my earlier days in electronics, as the glaciers receded, the NiCad battery was a new, great, and often expensive thing. We were taught to frequently let the battery drain and then recharge, as the cycle helped condition the battery. I get asked this question frequently regarding modern cell-phone batteries, and I admit my…
As the owner of a Palm Pixi, which I’ll admit I only own because Sprint brought the price down to $0, I’m glad to see that HP has big plans for webOS.
Wordfence has an excellent post on this subject. While their post is aimed at WordPress users, the ideas are good for any password. My own comment is this: Use MFA – multi-factor authentication. This is accomplished in various ways, such as an app on your phone, a texted code, emailed code, and so forth. It takes…
The smartphone wars may be heating up, with lots of wonderful new entrants, but I still like my Palm Centro, and don’t use all its capabilities.
Ars Technica reports that the FCC has found that major cellular carriers overstated their coverage, something most of us already knew. Based on that article, it seems that the FCC is using basic manipulation of when and in what way a release occurs to limit the attention paid to this story. Of course, the FCC…
The key takeaway from this is getting apps from the app store for whichever device you have or, if you can be certain, from a trusted source. More and more online activity is done with mobile devices, and the threat continues to increase. If you want details on the warning, ZeroDayRAT takes over iPhone and…