President Barack Obama was interviewed recently by the Toledo Blade / Toledo Times website/newspaper. The topic of discussion was the flailing and struggling that’s taking place in the print newspaper industry.

In the interview, the discussion started heading towards the idea of a potential government bailout or other options for the newspapers. President Obama said he hadn’t seen any detailed proposals, but would be open to options to help the struggling papers.
We’re advancing technology right? Why do we need to support an industry that doesn’t need to be saved? I believe the reason they’re failing is because the newspapers haven’t …read more

After downloading and installing Internet Explorer 8 onto the computers of various members of my family, I’ve now downloaded and installed it on my own machine. There’s not a whole lot that you’ll notice that’s different initially. I believe I have noticed that pages do seem to be loading a bit faster in IE8 than previously in IE7.

I’ve had to use the compatibility feature on a couple of sites, ones that I’ve developed for clients, so there’s so more work for me to take care of and make sure those are up to par.
I’m still using Firefox as my browser …read more

I’ve been a self-taught, figure-it-out, just-do-it technology lover. I’m not sure when it was that I decided I loved working with computers. I remember having a TRS-80 that I would write little programs for and save them on the cassette deck. The programs were just a glorified screen saver, but they were pretty cool at the time. However, that didn’t really grab my attention.
In grade school I always enjoyed the limited time I was able to play on the Apple IIe and other computers we had available. I had a few friends with Commodore 64’s and Commodore 128’s, as well …read more

McAfee provides a nice add-on for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer called Site Advisor. I used to run McAfee Site Advisor v2.8 until recently. It identifies whether a site or a search result is safe to its knowledge or not and is one of the best add-ons to use in a cyber café.
Do not make the mistake of installing it or upgrading it now.
Firefox’s “Find Updates” in Tools –> Add-ons could not find the latest version 2.9 just like the Mozilla Add-ons website couldn’t recommend it because Site Advisor is not your normal .XPI add-on. One has to download and …read more

Various news pieces centred around the recent Internet Explorer security threat and its subsequent patch release.

If you haven’t thought of any Christmas gift yet, consider teaching your old computer-illiterate grandma how to use computers. The ultimate goal is for her to send you a mail, but to reach there are a few important steps one must learn. Here are six steps I can think of.

We are still more than ten days from the new year, but a majority of the world has already started retrospecting the last twelve months and forecasting the next twelve.
Jayvee inspects the culture of FAIL on the Internet and finds that video advertising is going to decline. Actually, the rate of growth of online advertising has reached a saturation point even though online advertising itself is continuing to rise.
In these tough times, when the economy has been slowing down, Clair suggests that choosing Linux and open source software has become more necessary. For those who are already in that path, there …read more

In India, I visited many a cyber café which were in a sorry state both in terms of hardware and software, even those part of larger well-known cyber café chains. People visit these places usually for the Internet, and so it doesn’t matter whether the hardware and software are state-of-the-art or not as long as the web browser is functional.
Everybody, even those owning a PC may have to visit a cyber café some time or the other. Unlike a place like Starbucks with free wifi where you can plug in your PC into the network, a large number of cyber …read more