Technology
Virtual Magnifying Glass for Windows
Submitted by Pat on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 13:01Know anybody who has trouble reading a computer screen because of vision problems? I found a virtual magnifying glass that looks easy to use.
Thanks for the WiFi, Google!
Submitted by Pat on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:26Dear Google,
While traveling through Boston Logan airport, I had the pleasure of using internet service that you sponsored. Free internet in the airport--what a concept! Thanks, I appreciate you thinking of the holiday travelers!
--Pat
Wow, VASIMR: A powerful ion drive!
Submitted by Pat on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 09:56A real ion spaceship engine, not found in your father's space probe. Holy cow! Article at canada.com.
Pakistani Website Spammers
Submitted by Pat on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 08:24Well, it seems that this website has been visited by Pakistani spammers. These are the people who leave irrelevant comments with links to their own sites, in the hopes of tricking people into visiting them.
Well you Pakistani spammers, I'm on to you. Unfortunately for you, I've got comment moderation turned on, so you won't see anything you try posting until I approve it...and I'm not that generous.
firefox and Facebook issue?
Submitted by Pat on Sun, 04/26/2009 - 22:20Anyone else having problems with Facebook after upgrading to Fire fox 3.0.9? It seems to hang at login.
Curry College and POP servers for student email
Submitted by Pat on Sun, 04/19/2009 - 15:09A few months ago, I set up a BlackBerry for a Curry College student so he could use it to get his email. This worked fine up until a few weeks ago, when BlackBerry informed the student that his account information needed to be revalidated. Revalidation failed, so I took a look at it.
All the settings looked reasonable and were as I'd left them. However, a quick look at the servers showed that they no longer accepted connections from email clients, including the POP3 service the BlackBerry had used. I thought that was odd, so I called Curry College IT to ask what was going on.
Was My Cell Phone Hacked?
Submitted by Pat on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 15:44Today I witnessed a troubling event on my cell phone. I saw the front display light up out of the corner of my eye, so I picked it up to see what was going on. The phone told me it had just received 49 Megabytes of data. I don't subscribe to any services that transfer data, and I wasn't even using the phone at the time, and this creeped me out a bit.
Amusing Photo: Domain not resolving
Submitted by Pat on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:13Sorry, but here's some geek humor for the day.
Care to take a guess why the domain in this photo isn't resolving?
