Digital lifestyle columns by technology journalist Andy Walker as they appeared on the back page of Hub Digital Living, a national Canadian magazine. July 2004: Minimize Wireless interference June 2004: OQO! Get me one of these May 2004: Television to go March 2004: Ding dong your PDA is dead January 2004: Imagine if your cat […]
The arrival of broadband Internet access has opened up a new playground for hackers: home computers. “There is software available on the Net that makes it easy for hackers to probe thousands of hosts and, if file sharing is on, they will find you and compromise you,” said X-Force director Chris Rouland. Xforce is a […]
There you are sitting in the kitchen, working away on your wireless laptop, perhaps doing what every hip tech-savvy parent does these days – reading up on nanotechnology on the web. Then your offspring comes home from school. Child #1 goes to the fridge grabs a frozen burrito and tosses it in the microwave. Child […]
One of the most exciting ways to use your PC is to try it as a video phone. By simply installing a microphone and webcam, you can use your computer to communicate like the Jetsons! It’s not hard to set up and the cost is minimal. Plus, once the system is operational, it’s really usefl […]
I recently flew from San Francisco to Montreal and, for five blissful hours, I was disconnected, completely unreachable. Now, understand, I am gadget man. I write about technology for a living and people are always asking me to empty my pockets. There’s usually something curious in them, like a dog translator or a wireless sniffer. […]