If you’ve ever wondered whether some of these dating/match-making/friend-finding websites are seat-of-the-pant fly-by-nights, here’s a clue: For $150 you can get the software to start your own, with a starter “database of Russian, Ukrainian, Europe and American ladies’ profiles!” thrown in, possibly, for free. Pilot Group’s blurb for its Ready Dating Site Solution says: “Here … Read more
What document scanning and filing system do you use? One reader has asked about whether PaperMaster Pro is up to the job. Personally I’m not impressed with its latest incarnation: While the interface is superficially better, there are plenty of features missing from the earlier version, although right now I can’t find the link which … Read more
Scaring the bejesus out of a lot of security folk this weekend is a new kind of phishing attack that doesn’t require the victim to do anything but visit the usual websites he might visit anyway. It works like this: The bad guy uses a weakness in web servers running Internet Information Services 5.0 (IIS) and … Read more
WhenU, now known as Claria, has won what it calls an “important decision for the entire Internet industry” in its motion to enjoin the Utah Spyware Control Act, passed in March. WhenU had argued the Act “affects legitimate Internet advertising companies and therefore violates the First Amendment and dormant Commerce Clause of the United States … Read more
Courtesy of my friend Marjolein, the ActiveWords queen, here’s a wonderful little tool that saves more time than you can hope for: TextMonkey, from Boxer Software. TextMonkey strips away all the formatting rubbish that accrues when you move something from an email or a webpage to a document. It does it all very intelligently, too. … Read more