Hands On With Windows 8 Consumer Preview – Windows 8 is ready for the world to explore. Before you decide whether to download it, check out our first impressions.
New “HTTPS Everywhere” for Firefox and a beta for Chrome – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched the 2.0 version of HTTPS Everywhere for the Firefox browser today, including an important new update that warns users about web security holes.
Turn a $99 Nook into a Fully Fledged Android Tablet in Four Easy Steps – Rooting the Nook Simple Touch is surprisingly easy, and the results are more than worth it. As with all projects of this nature, a bricked device is one possible outcome, and you’ll definitely void your warranty. it worked like a charm for me though (as you can see in the video above), and just like rooting an Android phone, it’s well worth the risk—especially considering how deceptively easy it is.
The Top 5 External Hard Drives – With the need to back up an increasing amount of data, an external hard drive is a must-have. We take the angst out of your search with the best external hard drives you can buy today.
Google Privacy Checklist: What to Do Before Google’s Privacy Policy Changes on March 1 – If you use Gmail, Google Docs, or any other popular G-service, you re about to surrender a lot more personal information to the Googleplex…unless you take these steps to prevent it.
Most executives don’t pay attention to cyber risks – The advanced findings from the latest 2012 Carnegie Mellon CyLab Governance survey of how corporate boards and executives are managing cyber risks reveals the issue is still not getting adequate attention at the top.
BlackBerry Playbook 2.0 review – After a long gestation, RIM has finally delivered the long-awaited 2.0 software update to its PlayBook line. Is it enough to turn the device’s fortunes around?
Fake Chat Screen Malware Hijacks Banking Customers – A new attack against online banking customers uses a malware platform to trick its victims into verifying bogus transactions.
Company News:
HBO Go May Debut on Xbox on April Fool’s Day – HBO’s app would make fast friends with the game console’s other cable-killing video apps, such as Crackle, YouTube, Hulu Plus, Verizon FiOS, and ESPN.
Qualys Flies IronBee WAF to the Cloud – Security vendor Qualys is now throwing its hat into the commercial WAF ring with a new WAF service in the cloud.
Facebook faces nationwide class action tracking cookie lawsuit – Facebook is once again being sued for tracking its users even after they logged out of the service. This new nationwide class action lawsuit alleges the company violated federal wiretap laws.
Amazon lightens up on Kindle borrowing, offers more books for lending – Amazon has expanded the number of Kindle books available for lending to more than 100,000 titles that Amazon Prime members with Kindles can borrow for free as frequently as a book per month without due dates.
Webopedia Daily:
Port Triggering – A type of port forwarding where outbound traffic on predetermined ports sends inbound traffic to specific incoming ports. Port triggering “triggers” an open incoming port when a client on the local network makes an outgoing connection to a predetermined port on a server. Port Triggering is more secure than port forwarding, because the incoming ports are not open all the time, they are open only when a program is actively using the trigger port.
Off Topic (Sort of):
Why You Should Not Buy Your Child an iPad – With the iPad 3 debut coming, you can bet a lot of children and young adults are begging their parents to buy them an Apple tablet.
TedD2012 (video) – Ayah Bdeir is the founder and lead engineer of littleBits, an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets for prototyping and play. littleBits won Popular Science’s “Best of Toy Fair 2012” and Ayah was named a TED Fellow this year. (recommended by Michael F.)
Windows 8 Consumer Preview embraces the KISS principle – The Windows 8 Consumer Preview released February 29, 2012, is the new poster child for the keep it simple stupid philosophy.
10 reasons why laptops aren’t facing extinction – Is it possible that rumors of the laptop’s demise have been greatly exaggerated? Here’s a look at why laptops may continue to prevail.
Today’s Quote:
“Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.”
– Unknown
Today’s Free Downloads:
Zoner Photo Studio Free – Zoner Studio Free is probably the best free photo editing software to be had. Its interface is divided into three sections: Manager, which handles file browsing and cataloging; Viewer, where you view individual files and slide shows; and Editor, where you manipulate your images.
Simply Slideshow 1.0.35 – Simply Slideshow is a simple application that enables users to display images in Pan & Zoom effects with numerous options. Unlike other slideshow software, “Simply Slideshow” is very flexible and very high performance.
