by Joseph Forbes | Feb 8, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the whole-numbers-is-best-numbers dept. LibreOffice 4.0.0 has been released. Some of the changes are for developers: an improved API, a new graphics stack, migrating German code comments to English, and moving from Apache 2.0 to LGPLv3 & MPLv2. Some...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 8, 2013 | Blog Entry, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technicals
Windows 8 received a decent amount of enhancements on the desktop side that I tend to appreciate versus running Windows 7, even if that means I get Metro standing in the middle here and there occasionally. One such area of improvement is notification management and...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, MONEY
from the everyone’s-favorite-law dept. “From the article: ‘A dizzying story that involves falsified medical research, plagiarism, and legal threats came to light via a DMCA takedown notice today. Retraction Watch, a site that followed (among many...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the you’re-gonna-need-a-bigger-post-it dept. Deloitte predicts that 8-character passwords will become insecure in 2013. Humans have trouble remembering passwords with more than seven characters, and it is difficult to enter long, complex passwords into...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog Entry, GMAIL
by Thorin Klosowski Gmail is one of the best email clients out there, but even though it’s packed with features out of the box, it’s still not perfect. With that in mind, here are some of our favorite browser extensions and plugins for taking complete...
