I’m still looking for the perfect newsreader. Here’s another candidate: Newzie. It boasts News Bar System Tray Popup Notifier News Highlights News SlideShow Content Filtering Enhanced Tabbed-Windows Newzie in DeskBar Mode Spacious Browsing Read Posts in Decoration or List Mode Track Activities and Feel the Recency in Colors (whatever that means) Newzie is free, and … Read more
Update Nov 6 2006: To avoid confusion I’ve moved all this back to the original page. Here’s a directory of applications designed to run on USB drives, a subject I wrote about in the AWSJ and WSJ.com (subscription required; sorry). This list includes those suggestions kindly sent in by readers from the last posting. Please … Read more
Here’s what Rick Brown said of his Inspector Brown anti-phishing toolbar in response to my questions about its failure to catch the cross scripting phish mentioned here: Our software works to protect our community of users and allow each user the ability to fight back against spam, phishers and online fraud. Yes, its true, not … Read more
Stealing passwords in the old days used to involve shoulder surfing — cruising past the mark while s/he’s tapping in her/his password into the computer/ATM/cookie dispenser. But I had a scare today that made me realise that this is still a pretty easy way to get information. Newly landed in Hong Kong, I breezed over … Read more
As part of Google’s localization push, the search engine will figure from your IP address what country you’re in and configure itself accordingly into a local site, with a local country suffix, and, sometimes, local language options. Fair enough, except for travellers and people who are quite happy with things as they are. Running Google … Read more