Get Started Podcasting! How to Guest Podcast!
We have had so many people ask about how they can do their own podcasts, especially if they don’t want to set up their own website, or invest in their own audio equipment, that we have set up a special service and site just for her dear readers who want to say it loud, say it proud, without the hassle of setting up their own podcasts!
Florida Veterinarian Nails WarDriver Outside His Home
A St. Petersburg, Florida veterinarian nailed a wardriver he caught parked outside his home, jacked into his Internet connection. Realizing that there was someone surreptitiously using his Internet connection, the unnamed veterinarian called St. Petersburg police, who quickly came and arrested Benjamin L. Smith III, who was sitting outside the…
Email Readers’ IQ Going to Pot – Study Says Messaging More Harmful to IQ Than Marijuana or Lack of Sleep
Dealing with email, instant messages, and other messaging interruptions throughout the day is more damaging to one’s IQ than either lack of sleep, or using marijuana, according to a recent study of more than 1,000 Brits conducted on behalf of HP.
Yahoo Gives Slain Marine’s Family Access to Their Son’s Email
Many of Aunty’s dear readers will remember that around Christmas last year Aunty told you about the Ellsworth family trying to get access to their slain son’s Yahoo email account, after their son Justin Ellsworth was killed in combat in Iraq. And following that, the Linn family of Midlothian, Virginia,…
What is Pharming? DNS Poisoning and DNS Cache Poisoning Explained
There has been a lot about “pharming”, which is another term for DNS poisoning, also known as DNS cache poisoning, in the news lately. But what exactly is DNS poisoning? Put simply, DNS cache poisoning is when a DNS server is made to tell your computer that a domain resides…
Our Readers Comment on Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Dissing Verizon Wireless Customers
Our article about Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Dissing Verizon Wireless Customers: “The Customer Has Come to Expect So Much” has generated a lot of reader feedback, and continues to do so. Here are some of the things you’ve had to say: It would seem to me that Mr. Seidenberg is…
Wifi Hotspot Evil Twins Mimic Wi-fi Hotspots and Steal Your Data
Does your favourite wifi hotspot have an evil twin? How would you know an evil twin wi-fi hotspot if you saw one? Just what is a wifi hotspot evil twin, anyways? Remember the Patty Duke show? When Patty and her identical cousin Cathy would pull the old switcheroo, and Cathy,…
Are You an Ameritrade Customer? Ralph Lauren? LexisNexis? If So You Could Become a Victim of Identity Theft
Joining the ranks of Choicepoint and LexisNexis, Ameritrade and Ralph Lauren (Polo) have both acknowledged that private data belonging to their customers has been compromised, meaning that those customers could be at risk for identity theft. Also, LexisNexis this week announced that the breach of their customers’ personal data was…
Get a T-Mobile Sidekick II for Free!
Yes, you read that right! Get a T-Mobile Sidekick II (a/k/a the Danger Hiptop) for free! Actually it’s better than free! Believe it or not, right now, after rebates, you will make $50.00 when you buy a T-Mobile Sidekick II Danger Hiptop! Of course our readers will remember the T-Mobile…
At Long Last: Sync Your Sidekick with Your Mac with Markspace’s New Missing Sync for Hiptop
Many of our gentle readers know that I adore my T-Mobile Sidekick (also known, hardware-wise, as the Danger Hiptop). Despite the Sidekick being in the news lately primarily due to Paris Hilton’s Sidekick being hacked, it is a wonderful little device, providing always-on email, AOL Instant Messenger, web browsing, and…
New Worm Variant Attacking Windows – New Sober Worm Bilingual
There’s a new Sober worm in town, and this one is both clever and bilingual, being sent in both English and German. The new Sober worm version, being called W32.Sober.N@mm (such appealing names!) originated in Europe, and announces itself in English with some version of “I’ve_got your EMail on my_account!”…
A Look Inside the Blog Spammer’s Bag of Tricks
If you have a blog, read a blog, or heck, have even heard of a blog, then you are probably familiar with blog spam. Blog spam is where the spammer posts spam, usually containing links to their websites, to someone’s blog using either the comment feature or the trackback feature….
You’ve Got Male: AOL Chat Room Monitor Seduces Young Chat Room Girl
What’s that old line about “who’s watching the watchers?”? America Online (AOL) actually pays people to watch over their chat rooms, to make sure that nothing untoward happens to any of the underaged who like to hang out in the chat rooms and..you know..chat. This is all part of AOL’s…
Goowy Mail: It’s webmail! It’s a desktop client! It’s two, two, two look-and-feels in one!
From the fine people who first brought you Geocities comes Goowy mail. Goowy mail is, so far as Aunty knows, the first commercial scale web-based email application built on Flash. This allows Goowy to offer a free webmail service, which you can access from any Internet connection with a web…
