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Articles tagged with: Scott Wilson

Facebook, Faces and Lawsuits: A Cautionary Tale

“Well we all have a face That we hide away forever And we take them out and show ourselves When everyone has gone” –Billy Joel It appears that even if we hide our secret faces away, Facebook knows about them – and is getting sued for it. For several years now, Facebook has used [ Read More ]

Choices … iPad vs. Surface Pro 3

“I know how it sounds, trust me on this Your life to be hangs on this one choice Keep your Hilti near, you’ll know when Twenty minutes of oxygen” –The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets In the last week (although you may have missed them) a couple of significant tech anniversaries occurred. The Apple iPad, [ Read More ]

Superfish, Privdog and other Scary Beasts

You may have heard something about Lenovo computers and something called “Superfish”. (If you’ve actually heard of “Privdog”, you can skip the rest of this article – you’re already well ahead of the game.)

Hello Barbie and the Internet of Things

“I hear the secrets that you keep/When you’re talking in your sleep.” –The Romantics Hello Barbie is Mattel’s newest Barbie doll; the company demonstrated the doll at the New York Toy Fair in February and plans to begin selling it this fall.. Mattel says that the doll was designed in response to its marketing surveys, [ Read More ]

Free Software

“Sign upon the dotted line … nothing’s free. Eventually, nothing’s free.” –Alice Cooper Free software is a cool thing. It’s nice when you identify something you need to do (convert a file type, etc.) and then find a good, free tool for doing it. And, of course, a great deal of what we do [ Read More ]

Domain Names

“It took the night just to find the place. A minor quirk in the navigation. I’m so confused that I don’t know if we’re coming or going” – The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets I ordered pizza the other night, and after about half an hour, got a call from the pizza driver. “I’m [ Read More ]

Microsoft Office Resources

“Malcolm solves his problems with a chainsaw, and he never has the same problem twice!” –The Arrogant Worms Terry Pratchett has a line from one of his books about how clichés become clichés; he claims that they are the hammers and saws in the toolbox of conversation. It’s a good metaphor, and something that [ Read More ]

Coursera

“And I’m never going back to my old school” –Donald Fagen and Walter Becker Learning is one of those things that we never get to stop doing. I can remember at various times in my life looking forward to the end of school, whether just the end of the year or a graduation, but [ Read More ]

Outlook for Mobile Devices (iOS and Android)

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane I ain’t got time to take a fast train Lonely days are gone, I’m a-goin’ home ‘Cause my baby just wrote me a letter Well, she wrote me a letter Said she couldn’t live without me no more … –Wayne Carson Thompson When Wayne Carson wrote that tune back [ Read More ]

Cryptowall 2.0

“Because mutiny on the Bounty’s what we’re all about I’m gonna board your ship and turn it on out No soft sucker with a parrot on his shoulder ‘Cause I’m bad gettin’ bolder – cold getting colder.” –The Beastie Boys Once upon a time, malware on the internet was mostly vandalism, the computer equivalent [ Read More ]