Another EU Fine! Is Microsoft Insane?
Insanity, according to Narcotics Anonymous, "is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." If that's true then Microsoft has apparently gone nuts.[Microsoft's $731 Million Fine Could...
View ArticlePneuron, an Outstanding Enterprise Data Infrastructure Solution
How would you like to build a global enterprise-scale data access infrastructure? A daunting prospect, yes? Imagine creating a system that could make any subset of any significant data resource in your...
View ArticleEnterprise Vendors: There's No Such Thing as Product Secrecy Any More
All you chaps out there trying to sell enterprise solutions, I have some free consulting advice for you: You have to be completely open when you talk to your potential market.Indeed, I will argue that...
View ArticleWhy Your Next Big IT Project is Doomed
"The coming meltdown of IT; the out of control proliferation of IT failure is a future reality from which no country or enterprise - is immune. The same IT failures that are eroding profitability in...
View ArticleNo More Adobe Dreamweaver, So How About Xara Web Designer?
If you're doing serious Web content engineering you might well choose an all-singing, all-dancing product such as Adobe's Dreamweaver. The latest version of Dreamweaver in Adobe's Creative Suite 6...
View Article10 Jobs Robots Won't Take Away From You in the Next 10 Years
A recent slideshow, "10 Careers Robots Are Taking From You", highlighted things that, it argued, robots can do as well as humans. But most just augment and improve part of what humans do, not the whole...
View ArticleHow You Invade Your Own Privacy
There's a select few of my friends who are really serious about their privacy. They all use strong passwords for everything, many don't bother with online banking or use bill pay services, most don't...
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Fixing Facebook's Crazy Privacy Controls
Facebook has changed its privacy and security settings often enough that most users now have no idea what settings they actually need. While Facebook's security settings are important (I'll cover them...
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12 Bluetooth Gadgets for Geeks
Bluetooth, the short range wireless data communications technology, is in a huge range of products these days, and not just computers and phones.Originally created by Ericsson in 1994, Bluetooth was...
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Top 10 Geek Travel Gadgets You Need
Geeks tend to travel differently to other people. They need their techie creature comforts at all times which means they want the latest and greatest in mobile computing, entertainment, and leisure...
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7 Cool Free Open Source Projects You Need to Check Out
The free open source world continues to expand at a phenomenal pace. These are great “jumping off” points for developing products and technologies. They are also often supported by enthusiastic...
View ArticleWhy Are Phishers Targeting Gamers? Because That's Where the Money is ...
There's a story that when the notorious bank robber "Slick Willie" Sutton was asked why he robbed banks he replied "Because that's where the money is"(see Sutton's Law). As a strategy for maximizing...
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Are You a Digital Business Bozo? 9 Red Flags That Will Drive Customers Away
Building a small business is hard enough, but it is all the harder today because you have to hit the ground running with an online presence that works. Given that most businesses aren't tech-oriented...
View ArticleRoboBees to Save U.S. Agriculture ... in About 20 Years
What man breaks, man can fix … at least, that’s what we like to think. Consider, for example, bees. Bees of all species are dying off in the US and Europe and over the last few years we’ve seen the...
View ArticleBluedriver: Vehicle Data Capture for Geeks
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Automatic, a dongle that plugs into your car’s OBD-II connector and sends data about your car’s performance and your driving via Bluetooth LE to an app on your iOS...
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28 Crucial Checks to Make Before Launching Your Web Site
Every day you come across Web sites that are just plain wrong. Either they’re over-designed with way too much going on or they look like someone built the site with their eyes closed. And even if...
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A Dozen Real Desks of a Dozen Real Techies
Image by Jeffrey BeallGo on, look at your desk … is it a nice, neat, clean with everything in its place workspace or is it an everything out of its place including a cat and even the kitchen sink if...
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Apple: A Pox On Your House!
O. M. G. Apple just screwed up my day. Completely.The truth is I both love and hate Apple. I love the slickness and polish of their products but I often feel like I’m in some kind of abusive...
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The 12 Gifts of Techmas
Gifts that geeks will loveYes, it’s that time of year when techies go to bed dreaming of gadgets, wall warts and blinking LEDs. In this roundup I have 12 gifts that any geek worth his salted hash would...
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10 Chrome Extensions for Developers
Hooked on Google ChromeImage by GoogleAs I mentioned in a recent Gearhead post, I’ve become hooked on Google’s Chrome browser. But as good as it is, like all software that becomes part of our routine...
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