Been playing with an interesting variation on the ActiveWords/SureType theme whereby you type what you’re looking for, not go trawling through submenus and whatnot. It’s called 1st TurboRun from Green Parrotts Software, and it allows you to just type the first few letters of whatever file or program you’re looking for, and will offer matches… Read More »
I’m not sure it’s the kind of thing that readers of this blog are interested in, but I’ll flag it anyway: I’ve started up a new, sporadic blog on downshifting/downsizing etc, particularly with reference to a growing movement in Europe towards moving through life at a slower pace. Naturally enough, it’s called Slow Life. Check… Read More »
Johan Malmberg of Uniblue Systems, makers of Windows system utility WinTasks, tells me they’ve launched a new site, www.processlibrary.com, which is “a free service site that provides the user with detailed information about every common process. In the recesses of most computers, 20-30 invisible processes run silently in the background. To know what every process… Read More »
Is the Infrared port on your computer a security hazard? LA-based Ligatt Corp, a computer security company, reckon so. In a press release issued yesterday, the company says it was able “to gain entry into two out of ten computers and started copying files” belonging to customers at a local Borders bookstore using a Windows… Read More »
Here’s one of those moments when you wonder whether banks have yet got on online security. The Melbourne Age, reporting from the birthplace of phishing, reports today that customers of Australia’s Westpac bank are getting flummoxed by the appearance of a new pop-up window on its Internet banking page. The pop-up, according to one user,… Read More »