by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, Technical Support
Recently Facebook decided that in addition to visual notifications, it would start making a “beeping sound” when you receive a new notification. This brief tutorial will show you how to disable that annoying beep. Note: this “feature” hasn’t been rolled out across all...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, Technical Support, Technicals
from the at-least-you-get-ipv6 dept. I’ve recently learned that our neighborhood is getting a fiber optic network, with a 100Mbps connection in each subscriber’s home. IPv6 connectivity is included, but unfortunately, the only IPv4 connectivity they offer...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 6, 2013 | INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, Technical Support, Technicals
Comcast revealed today how it will deal with customers who receive multiple warnings under the newly launched “six-strikes” anti-piracy system. After four alerts the ISP will “hijack” web-browsers of suspected serial pirates with a persistent pop-up notification,...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technical Support
from the disk-write-error dept. A Stanford comp-sci student has found a serious bug in Chromium, Safari, Opera, and MSIE. Feross Aboukhadijeh has demonstrated that these browsers allow unbounded local storage. ‘The HTML5 Web Storage standard was developed to...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
The IT security world is full of charlatans and wannabes. And all of us have been “advised” by at least one of them. All you want in an IT security consultant is expertise, unbiased advice, and experienced recommendations at a reasonable price. But with...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | DATA, GMAIL, Technical Support
Whitson Gordon These days, it’s hard to get by with just one email address. If you want to sync your contacts between all your email accounts, it’s actually very easy to do with a free tool called Soocial. Here’s how. We’ve talked about Soocial...
