Smilodon | February 16, 2009
Watching TV on your computer is becoming more and more commonplace, but the next step in home entertainment is finding a way to get Internet video, including streaming programs, video podcasts, and paid downloaded shows and movies, to play on your actual television. While it is possible today with a variey of hardware and software [...]
Smilodon | February 13, 2009
Twitter is a relatively new social networking tool of the Internet which popularized micro-blogging. The main purpose is to keep friends connected, by letting everyone know where you are and what you are doing. Like other services, it depends on a technology known as SMS (short message service), which is basically a text message that [...]
Smilodon | October 28, 2008
Video has been on the Internet for a long time. Until recently, however, it was mostly limited to short video clips or tiny picture windows on the webpage. Today’s broadband connections now make it possible to stream higher quality video in real time. Most everyone has heard of YouTube.com, which became a phenomenon of user-generated [...]
Smilodon | September 2, 2008
The issue with random passwords in everyday use, of course, is the balance between a good password and something you can remember. For the sake of memory, people often use their pet’s name, their middle name, birth or other significant date, old address, a favorite character, song, or movie title. In a previous article, we [...]
Smilodon | September 2, 2008
A strong password, sometimes described as a robust password, should consist of mixed characters, including uppercase, lowercase, punctuation, numbers and symbols. And longer passwords are better than shorter passwords. Here is an example of a really good password: $VKRudAn|*xmD4@hepF-AhmGO+*”iJ42EODYL~0Mr]FN2cIxM Obviously, you can’t use a password like that to log into eBay, so let’s back up [...]