As some of her gentle readers know, Aunty is an Amazon affiliate. That means that from time to time Aunty gets a heads up on some great deals at Amazon which may be of interest to Aunty’s readers. Examples include the Replay TV for only $49.74 earlier this year, and…

McDonald’s is introducing, I kid you not, downloadable music and ringtones under the golden arches. The offerings, available via Blaze Net kiosks, are McDonald’s latest bid to stay current with the times. Other offerings include store-wide wifi, and McLattes. Said McDonald’s spokesperson Bill Whitman of their newly funkified locations, “It…

VoIP is the new VoIP! Spontania is Video4Skype! “What’s that Aunty?” you ask. “Have you had too many add-shots in your Starbucks today?” Nope! Video over IP is the new “VoIP”! Where VoIP has always stood for Voice over IP (Internet protocol), you can now combine your VoIP with Video…

You can now pet a chicken across the Internet! Yes, that’s right – sit in your apartment in New York City, and experience the rural life by petting a chicken in Iowa. Oliver and Lisa Douglas ain’t got nothing on you! (Quick, how many of you got that reference without…

It’s bad enough to get the oft joked about blue screen of death on your computer, or even your ATM, but your car’s computer system is not the place you want to see a software bug – particularly when it has the potential to lead to a real crash, as…

Microsoft is rolling out a new program, called “Windows OneCare”. The idea is that one service will do it all – provide security, protection, take care of maintenance, and optimize performance. Of course, you need to be able to trust the service provider to do each of these things well…

How many people a day do you suppose go into a mega-electronics store like Circuit City and purchase a new computer? And how many of those people do you suppose have the store like Circuit City transfer their personal data from their old computer to their new computer for them?…

If you own any McAfee or Norton Security product for your Windows machine, you can now either upgrade or switch to McAfee Internet Security Suite 2005 (7.0) for free! “How’s that work, Aunty?” you may ask. Well, it works like this! Right now you can get McAfee Security 2005 on…

With the introduction of its new AIM Mail service, Internet giant America Online (AOL) has jumped on the “free webmail with 2 gigabytes of storage” bandwagon, but with an added twist: the new service is tied in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account. AOL Instant Messenger Mail (AIM Mail…

Even before security became one of the top issues on the Internet, remembering passwords was a hassle, admit it. Far too many of us recycle the same password or few passwords, over and over, knowing that we shouldn’t, and hoping that nobody catches on to us, tricks us into revealing…

Yep, they’ve finally done it. Yahoo has matched Gmail’s watershed 1GB (gigabyte) of email storage. According to the splash screen at [Page no longer available – we have linked to the archive.org version instead] https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/brick-wall/, “By early May, all free Yahoo! Mail users will receive an email storage increase to…

The early reviews of Mac’s new Tiger have been mixed, to be sure. And in addition to the usual bugs, it seems that folks are really up in arms about the UI (User Interface). Indeed, enough people of sufficient clue are experiencing both issues and negative reactions to give Aunty…

Pity poor Brian Cartmell, CEO of SpamArrest. He has a tough job: going hat in hand from site to site saying “please take down the bad things you said about us.” Spam Arrest is the purveyor of an anti-spam challenge/response system. When someone sends email to a SpamArrest user, they…

Internet savvy teenagers are increasingly turning to the Internet to buy their cigarettes. It makes sense – there are few if any laws regulating the sale of tobacco to minors across the Internet, and due to the interstate nature of such transactions, local state laws are ill-equipped to deal with…

Download.com, a division of CNet Networks, has announced that it has purged its extensive library of downloadable software of all programs which contained adware, and that it will strictly enforce its new policy of zero tolerance for such adware-infested programs. The move follows Download.com’s first announcement of about three weeks…