Fishing is dangerous to fish. Phishing is dangerous to everybody whose computeris connected in whatever way to the Internet. The origin of the name is simple: in a way similar to the actions of a fisherman, a Phisher is casting out an enticement and trying to get you to bite. How does a Phisher cast […]
Your computer is a spoiled beast, filled with wires and such sundry stuff, feeding itself on ones and zeroes, and abstaining from dirty power. It takes a power supply to keep it running smoothly. Let’s be frank about it: without power, your fancy PC is just another doorstop. Yet if you didn’t buy a good […]
Format wars have always been a part of technological progress. As companies develop new technologies to improve our lives, others devise similar but incompatible alternatives. In the past, we’ve had wars between Cylindrical vs. Disk records, 33 1/3 RPM vs. 45 RPM records, eight–track vs. cassettes, AM vs. FM, BetaMAX vs. VHS, Mac vs. PC, […]
Dealing with digital information is getting easier than ever, and cheaper than ever, to boot. If this sounds too good to be true, it’s not. The new technology is called OLED, short for Organic Light Emitting Diode. And it spells revolution. The word revolutionary is thrown around fairly often in the technology field, but is […]
Let’s get it out of the way first off: yes, the Blu–ray versus HD DVD debate is a format war exactly like the Betamax vs. VHS war of the early 1980s, and we all know who won that one. This time though, there’s no clear winner so far, and the choice is made all the […]