February, 2008
The Autolog (www.theautolog.com)
-social network for your car, upload photos, customize background, etc.
Virtenna Radio (www.virtenna.com)
-listen to the radio stations you know and love while traveling, or check out what people in other places are listening to
Cocomment (www.cocomment.com)
-service lets you stay on top of all the comments you place on any blog and subscribe to comment threads to read later. Also has tools you can use on your own blog.
ooVoo (go.pcmag.com/oovoo)
-up to six video-conference participants, cool interface, file sharing, privacy features, good video image quality
-no calling to/from regular phones (PC-to-PC only), can't record calls, audio can stutter at low bandwidth, no Mac version yet.
Pageflakes (go.pcmag.com/pageflakes)
-web start-page builder that is amazingly customizable, has a simple interface, a public page, and social-networking capabilities.
-less integration with email, IM, stock reports than My Yahoo!, iGoogle.
72 Tips for Safer Computing
April, 2008
Supercharge Windows
Secure Your E-mail and IM Communications
Friday, April 18, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
PC Magazine, March 2008
Weather Bonk (www.weatherbonk.com): Google Maps mashup that overlays traffic data, weather and forecast information over your neighborhood.
Best free firewall: Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0 (go.pcmag.com/comodopro3)
-handles all basic firewall tasks, resists malware attacks, proactive detection protects system resources and blocks leak tests, automatically configured for nearly a million safe programs.
-proactive detection flags many innocent programs.
Best Free Software: Link
Best free firewall: Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0 (go.pcmag.com/comodopro3)
-handles all basic firewall tasks, resists malware attacks, proactive detection protects system resources and blocks leak tests, automatically configured for nearly a million safe programs.
-proactive detection flags many innocent programs.
Best Free Software: Link
Esquire, December 2007
Year's Five Best Reads
-Far Afield, by SL Price: what sports can tell us about one another, set in the South of France.
-Like You'd Understand, Anyway, by Jim Shepard: 11 stories that tell us just about everything we need to know.
-Takeover, by Charlie Savage: provides context for what the Bush administration has been after.
-The Blade Itself, by Marcus Sakey: crime novel.
-The Ends Of The Earth, Elizabeth Kolbert and Francis Spufford: anthology of historical travel narratives and contemporary nonfiction.
Nimrods: eight-part Sundance Channel documentary following sparsely populated northern-Michigan town's rampant devotion to its high school basketball team.
Smile When You're Lying: Confessions Of A Rogue Travel Writer: by Chuck Thompson, funny and honest book about travel and the travel industry.
Health: what to fear and what to be glad you got away with.
-Concussions can cause what's called mild cognitive impairment, your brain is forced to work harder because it has to reroute signals around the damaged areas. Basically, you become a little slow. If you find yourself struggling to remember simple words and tasks, talk to you doctor about mental exercises that can help. Depression can be another side effect, and that's treatable too.
-Cigarettes: three months after quitting, you'll be getting back to normal. In face, once you've quite for 10 years, your odds of getting lung cancer and heart disease drop dramatically. You do still run a greater risk of emphysema, though, so get any persistent cough checked out.
-Every bad sunburn increases your risk of skin cancer significantly. See a dermatologist and once a year have someone give you a head to toe exam, looking for any new moles or unexplained blemishes.
-There's no evidence that occasional marijuana use causes any mental impairment or increases cancer risk. In fact, some studies suggest that a little dope may protect against cancer: THC, the active ingredient, is known to inhibit the growht of certain cancerous cells.
-Cocaine causes short-term but extreme spikes in blood pressure. And those spikes can cause small heart attacks and strokes that will come back to haunt you later in life. If you Hoovered with any regularity, tell your doctor, and never ignore symptoms like unexplained shortness of breath or chest pain.
-High cholesterol: once you change to a healthier lifestyle, you'll start getting back on track within a few months. The same rule applies to things like high blood pressure, obesity, and even type-2 diabetes.
10 Easy Ways Of Saying No
-Interesting. Let me think about it.
-Maybe when things calm down.
-Let's table that until next quarter.
-I think it's great, but (name of boss) would never go for it.
-Eh.
-Huh. I would've never, ever thought of that.
-Oh, you.
-That's not the worst idea I've ever heard, but it's pretty close.
-What else you got?
-No.
Lazy Man's Guide To Shopping
-vivre.com: well-edited juggernaut of luxury goods.
-momastore.org: wonky, design-centric array of esoterica from the Museum of Modern Art.
-alpha-man.com: clothes, books and assorted high-tech gizmos.
-flight001.com: offbeat travel aides that make flying friendlier for everyone.
-Far Afield, by SL Price: what sports can tell us about one another, set in the South of France.
-Like You'd Understand, Anyway, by Jim Shepard: 11 stories that tell us just about everything we need to know.
-Takeover, by Charlie Savage: provides context for what the Bush administration has been after.
-The Blade Itself, by Marcus Sakey: crime novel.
-The Ends Of The Earth, Elizabeth Kolbert and Francis Spufford: anthology of historical travel narratives and contemporary nonfiction.
Nimrods: eight-part Sundance Channel documentary following sparsely populated northern-Michigan town's rampant devotion to its high school basketball team.
Smile When You're Lying: Confessions Of A Rogue Travel Writer: by Chuck Thompson, funny and honest book about travel and the travel industry.
Health: what to fear and what to be glad you got away with.
-Concussions can cause what's called mild cognitive impairment, your brain is forced to work harder because it has to reroute signals around the damaged areas. Basically, you become a little slow. If you find yourself struggling to remember simple words and tasks, talk to you doctor about mental exercises that can help. Depression can be another side effect, and that's treatable too.
-Cigarettes: three months after quitting, you'll be getting back to normal. In face, once you've quite for 10 years, your odds of getting lung cancer and heart disease drop dramatically. You do still run a greater risk of emphysema, though, so get any persistent cough checked out.
-Every bad sunburn increases your risk of skin cancer significantly. See a dermatologist and once a year have someone give you a head to toe exam, looking for any new moles or unexplained blemishes.
-There's no evidence that occasional marijuana use causes any mental impairment or increases cancer risk. In fact, some studies suggest that a little dope may protect against cancer: THC, the active ingredient, is known to inhibit the growht of certain cancerous cells.
-Cocaine causes short-term but extreme spikes in blood pressure. And those spikes can cause small heart attacks and strokes that will come back to haunt you later in life. If you Hoovered with any regularity, tell your doctor, and never ignore symptoms like unexplained shortness of breath or chest pain.
-High cholesterol: once you change to a healthier lifestyle, you'll start getting back on track within a few months. The same rule applies to things like high blood pressure, obesity, and even type-2 diabetes.
10 Easy Ways Of Saying No
-Interesting. Let me think about it.
-Maybe when things calm down.
-Let's table that until next quarter.
-I think it's great, but (name of boss) would never go for it.
-Eh.
-Huh. I would've never, ever thought of that.
-Oh, you.
-That's not the worst idea I've ever heard, but it's pretty close.
-What else you got?
-No.
Lazy Man's Guide To Shopping
-vivre.com: well-edited juggernaut of luxury goods.
-momastore.org: wonky, design-centric array of esoterica from the Museum of Modern Art.
-alpha-man.com: clothes, books and assorted high-tech gizmos.
-flight001.com: offbeat travel aides that make flying friendlier for everyone.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Snips from Inc.
November, 2007
Build Your Own Widget
-www.widgetbox.com
-desktop.google.com/plugins
-widgets.yahoo.com
-www.snipperoo.com
-www.widgetgallery.com
-www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard
Free Web Conference Services
-www.dimdim.com: open-source web-conferencing tool, like WebEx but free
-www.empressr.com: create, manage, and share multimedia presentations
-www.zentation.com: online viewing of slides and a video of you speaking about them
-www.spresent.com: allow others to view slides during conference calls without setup
March, 2008
Outsourcing HR
-Ceridian: when you want to pick and choose, best if you need only a few services
-Administaff: when you want to offer more health care options, they take over everything
-Taleo: when you want to move beyond the annual review, good for performance reviews
-KnowledgeBank: when you're starting from scratch, focus only on HR management, no payroll/benefits
-CheckPoint HR: when you want a paperless office, you still need to conduct reviews and handle employee complaints
Web Hosting
-Shared server: with other customers, if a site on the server experiences heavy traffic, your site could crash (godaddy.com, 1&1 internet, yahoo small business, dreamhost)
-Grid server: if heavy traffic, other servers will pick up the load (media temple, mosso, 3tera, layered technologies)
-Virtual private server: large slice of a dedicated server, if other sites on server are busy, your site should still run normally (spry vs hosting, verio, media temple, web.com, godaddy.com)
-Dedicated server: hosted on own server, most capacity for a fixed price, sudden flood could still overwhelm the server (rackspace, the planet.com, softlayer, fastservers.net)
Build Your Own Widget
-www.widgetbox.com
-desktop.google.com/plugins
-widgets.yahoo.com
-www.snipperoo.com
-www.widgetgallery.com
-www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard
Free Web Conference Services
-www.dimdim.com: open-source web-conferencing tool, like WebEx but free
-www.empressr.com: create, manage, and share multimedia presentations
-www.zentation.com: online viewing of slides and a video of you speaking about them
-www.spresent.com: allow others to view slides during conference calls without setup
March, 2008
Outsourcing HR
-Ceridian: when you want to pick and choose, best if you need only a few services
-Administaff: when you want to offer more health care options, they take over everything
-Taleo: when you want to move beyond the annual review, good for performance reviews
-KnowledgeBank: when you're starting from scratch, focus only on HR management, no payroll/benefits
-CheckPoint HR: when you want a paperless office, you still need to conduct reviews and handle employee complaints
Web Hosting
-Shared server: with other customers, if a site on the server experiences heavy traffic, your site could crash (godaddy.com, 1&1 internet, yahoo small business, dreamhost)
-Grid server: if heavy traffic, other servers will pick up the load (media temple, mosso, 3tera, layered technologies)
-Virtual private server: large slice of a dedicated server, if other sites on server are busy, your site should still run normally (spry vs hosting, verio, media temple, web.com, godaddy.com)
-Dedicated server: hosted on own server, most capacity for a fixed price, sudden flood could still overwhelm the server (rackspace, the planet.com, softlayer, fastservers.net)
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