The Internet is a Utility
January 2022 update: I published this a month before Covid-19 hit the US. Broadband internet makes it possible for many people to work and learn from home. It also made it possible to for houses of worship to keep operating,…
Computer Tools of the Trade
In my post The Greatest Enemies of Electronic Devices, I promised to show you the necessary computer tools to clean and repair your machine. Most of them are inexpensive and readily available outside of specialty stores. Required Computer Tools Microfiber cloths: These can…
Book Review: Nobody’s Victim
“I operate my firm, C.A. Goldberg, PLLC, with one fundamental rule: if one of my clients has been harmed, somebody must pay. It’s as simple as that.” This quote is from the beginning of Carrie Goldberg’s book Nobody’s Victim. Goldberg tells…
Your Friend Encryption
As I noted in 2015: Government agencies have always had an uneasy relationship with encryption technology. The tragic events [of the November 2015 Paris attacks] only deepened that distrust. Many countries around the world proposed restricting or banning encryption. But would such…
10 IT Blogs That You Should Be Reading
Recently, I was challenged to come up with a top ten list of blogs. So, I decided to make a list of my favorite IT blogs. They cover a wide range of subjects, so I divided them into three sections….
Throwback Thursday: Video Over Dial-Up
For most people today, streaming video over the Internet is easy. There are dozens of apps and websites where you can watch anything from college courses to music videos. You can watch your favorite movie on your smartphone, pause it,…
Throwback Thursday: Teens React to Windows 95
Watch as teenagers interact with a 21-year-old OS for the first time. <iframe width=”640″ height=”360″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/8ucCxtgN6sc” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> The teenagers are working on what looks like an early 1990s desktop with a Dell CRT monitor. The poor kids don’t even…
10 Best Reads of 2015
These are the best reads of 2015. The articles listed below come from a wide variety of sources. Some are from mainstream media outlets, others from independent outlets. Some are opinion pieces, some are news articles. But they all have…
Flashback Friday: The Zip disk
The late ’90s, when floppy disks were still in common use. Of course, the average formatted floppy disk only held 1.44MB of data. How would you store massive amounts of data in a portable format? Enter Iomega’s Zip disk. The…
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