Posted in Internet, Microsoft Windows, computer stuff, software on May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Why does Microsoft make it so difficult to find the links to download Internet Explorer 8 as a standalone installer? It use to be at the bottom of the stub-installer download page. Well after some digging, I found them and here are direct links to the standalone off-line installers of the release [...]
Posted in Internet, computer stuff, network security on May 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Facebook announced that it would support OpenID and it finally went live with it according to this article: Facebook Becomes Largest OpenID Relying Party.
var addthis_pub = ‘jchin’;
var addthis_brand = ‘Johnny Chin’;var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_header_background = ‘#2255CC’;var addthis_header_color = ‘#FFFFFF’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’;
Posted in Internet, computer stuff, finance on Apr 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Came across a PC Magazine article about Why Google Should Buy Twitter.
Just the thought of Google’s search technology and current relevant content (stuff people are Twitter’ng about) could mean a mega-advertising revenue stream for Google. I think if Google buys Twitter, we can possible see Google serving up ads in our Twitter feeds. [...]
Posted in computer stuff, network security on Apr 1st, 2009 No Comments »
None of my clients had any issues related to the virus/worm named Conficker. Is it more of the media’s April Fool’s Day joke? Probably not, but definitely not what they made it to be as bad.
var addthis_pub = ‘jchin’;
var addthis_brand = ‘Johnny Chin’;var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_header_background = ‘#2255CC’;var addthis_header_color = ‘#FFFFFF’;var addthis_options [...]