Gadgets Technology & Video Game News

I really thought this was adorable. I guess it is a t-shirt and it is from fashionablygeek.comif I was younger I would probably get it. As it is I’m just too old to pull it off without getting strange looks from the neighbors.

Zdnet has reported on a Symantec discovery that a Mac OS X populated botnet is on the loose and being used for DOS attacks (denial-of-service). It was just a matter of time before somebody took advantage of the general feeling of immunity from security issues in the Mac community. Given the specifics of the trojan [...]

Newegg has AVG Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware version 8 suite on sale for $20 today. Plus they have a $20 rebate. So, if you don’t mind filling out rebates and waiting a bit this is free (one of my favorite words). Personally I’m not a big fan of purchasing things based on rebates, but I have [...]

Earlier today I wrote about the National Federation of the Blind marching in front of the NY city office of the Author’s Guild of America. They are protesting the Author’s Guild convincing Amazon to remove text to speech features from the Kindle 2. Gizmodo has some good pictures and coverage of the protest.

One of the wonderful things about advances in technology is the benefit it can bring to the disabled. I have written in previous posts about how disappointed I am in both the Authors Guild and in Amazon for allowing authors to remove the text to speech feature in the Kindle 2 which allowed the blind [...]

Now that Apple has surrendered to the music industry and there is no longer a flat rate for music purchases there you are going to need to shop around when you fill up on MP3s. There variable pricing can get you some good deals for now though on some songs. Apple claims the majority of [...]

A warning that this is one of those sometimes I’m going to write about politics kind of posts. Did you know that 92.7654% of statistics are made up on the spot, I just read it in that little thumbnail on the left – and everything I read must be true, otherwise why would anyone bother [...]

The Honeynet Project reports that “Joe Stewart from the Conficker Working Group has created an eye chart that allows for online identification of Conficker B and C infections.” Basically, since the worm blocks many security sites, the eyechart downloads the logos from six of these sites. If you can see all of the logos then [...]