Nice review. If nothing else you get a picture of what the costs and features are. My self I have a basic router with VPN pass-throughs and that works for my set up. I can imagine how it might help to beef up if things were a little different.
I saw this posted on Scobleizer and it is fancinating. Best way to explain it is that it is a kind of Zeitgeist for current news. I've only spent about five minutes looking at it, so I think tracking it over a day or so will really give me an idea of its value. Probably…
I write a lot of stuff. And it all starts with a blank piece of glass I’ve been on a bit of a writing tear of late. Which is good because writing is literally my job. I made a faux-resolution to write for myself this year. While work gets their 1500 words (ish) a day out…
On Monday I posted my initial thoughts about the new IM product InterComm from Five Across. If you haven't downloaded it (and I recommend you do) here is a good screen shot of it (from the Five Across website): The first thing I noticed was the nice UI. It's pretty intuitive and graphically appealing. The…
I feel like a recent Skype convert. After a comment on this blog to try it out, and it is amazing. I talked with a friend in Toronto (almost across the continent) and it was clearer than regular phone. Of course now that I want to use it more, the plug for the microphone for…
This looks amazing. The Globe & Mail has a better description and intro than Robin Good does, but Robin does provide examples and a link to download, so both are worthwhile reads. If this works with AvantBrowser I'll go for it. If it doesn't, well it looks cool enough for me to use IE more….
Can you imagine surfing the web if you had to remember all the digits of a website's IP address? For example www.cbc.ca resolves to: 208.38.45.182. I think typing in www.cbc.ca is much easier. Dr. Mockapetris, the inventor of domain names, discusses in this BBC article about how the system of domain names was just a…
