by Joseph Forbes | Apr 3, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS
from the one-more-and-it’s-old-enough-to-drink dept. Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 20 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include per-window private browsing, a new download manager in the Firefox toolbar, and the ability to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 3, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS
from the if-you-can’t-beat-’em dept. Microsoft on Wednesday released SkyDrive 3.0 for iOS out of the blue. Last time the app was in the news, Apple was stopping Microsoft from pushing out an update in the App Store because the company doesn’t pay a...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 3, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Keyboard shortcuts only get you so far. If you really want to harness the real power of your computer you need to take it to the command line. This week, learn to use the terminal like a master. Get a Great Terminal Emulator All operating systems offer a command...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 3, 2013 | Blog Entry, HAPPINESS, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, TECHNOLOGY
Let’s be honest for second: most of us have illegally downloaded something in our lives. Maybe it was a song, some software, a game, or a movie. For a period I pirated everything I could. As technology pushed forward, it became less necessary, and now I...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 3, 2013 | DATA, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
We’re all used to changing society over a weekend of coding. But changing the values of society takes much, much longer than that, and it requires all of us to keep patiently explaining what we understand to those who don’t. Here’s a primer on how. I founded the...
