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Amazon.com offers software downloads

First the music downloads, now software downloads. Is this the wave of the future for software? No more waiting for CD ROMs and boxes of software you ordered? Amazon.com has begun offering TurboTax software for download. I wonder how soon other software titles will be available. www.amazon.com/software...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 01-06-2008
Filed under: News, Internet, Technology
Wow...13 patches for Safari...

The new Safari 3.1 includes patches for at least 13 documented flaws, including one that puts Mac OS X at risk of drive-by code execution attacks. Apple has shipped a new version of its flagship Safari Web browser to fix more than a dozen security vulnerabilities affecting both Windows and Mac users...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 03-18-2008
Filed under: Internet, Technology
John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla --> Apple is wrong, borders on malware distribution

This from John Lilly's blog: What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong. It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that’s bad — not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web. What they did yesterday was to use...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 03-22-2008
Filed under: Internet, Technology
Google's Decelerating Clicks

According to an article this morning in the Wall Street Journal, Google Inc.'s short-term outlook has grown increasingly murky in the wake of new data showing weakness in the number of consumers clicking on the Internet giant's search ads, the source of nearly all of the company's revenue...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 03-30-2008
Filed under: News, Internet, Technology
GMail has become pretty lame...

myITforum.com lists not working, all kinds of issues logging in to the web client? What's going on with Google? I've sent a couple of emails...no response yet to my inquiry's. May be time to unsub from my gmail account and reestablish my account with a different addy. I just don't get...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 05-29-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Internet, Technology
Facebook 'violates privacy laws'

A Canadian privacy group has filed a complaint against the social networking site Facebook accusing it of violating privacy laws. The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic has listed 22 separate breaches of privacy law in its country. Clinic Director Phillipa Lawson told the BBC that, with...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 05-31-2008
Filed under: Internet, Technology
WeatherPulse v2.10 Build 5

One of the best desktop weather products I’ve used, and it’s free. Tropic Designs has released build 5 of the product. Why is it the best? No limits to how many locations you track, no limits to the amount of personal maps you can add (that I’ve run up against anyway), and best of all...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 06-04-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Internet, Technology
Pandora Desktop (Beta)

I’ve blogged before that I’m a big fan of Pandora.com, the “Music Genome Project” that helps you find similar music styles to your favorites. Pandora has released Pandora Desktop beta. With the Pandora Desktop Application, you can play your Pandora stations right from your desktop – without opening...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 06-04-2008
Filed under: Internet, Technology
Starbucks can’t handle wi-fi demand…

Will this force them to change their policy? Starbucks Corp. began offering coffee drinkers a way to get free Wi-Fi access at its shops on Tuesday, but some customers had a hard time cashing in. That's because some people were unable to access Starbucks' Card Rewards Web site to sign up for the...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 06-05-2008
Filed under: Internet, Technology
High resource utilization from RSS readers

I’ve been testing several different news readers over the last few days, and watching resource utilization at the same time. A few days ago, Outlook 2007 slowed to a crawl, only to discover one of the news readers I was testing had jumped up to high utilization, became a memory hog, and was dragging...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 06-21-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, News, Internet, Technology

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