Google officially announced the release of a their new web browser on Monday, 9/1. The new browser - which Google is calling Chrome utilizes the Webkit technology, the same open source technology used by Apple's Safari browser.

Sitemeter - a popular web site statistics counter and tracking tool, has apparently made some changes which in effect, have rendered sites running their tracking code as dead to Internet Explorer 7 (including their own site - sitemeter.com). A nasty “operation aborted” popup appears and the site will refuse to load. No word yet on the [...]

For those of us out there that have been missing the telnet command on Vista, here is how you enable it on MS Windows Vista. No reboot is required. Telnet isn't your only option though. If you prefer to log in to hosts via ssh, you can simply download Putty which is a free terminal emulator that supports ssh and telnet. I use telnet more for a troubleshooting and don't recommend that you use it for remote login. It's just not as secure.

A computer virus has been circulating as an email attachment. The “From” address indicates that the email came from a UPS representative. The virus is a zip file attachment with the names of “ups_invoice.zip” or “ups_tracking.zip”, or some variance thereof. The email is usually found to have the title of “UPS Tracking Number xxxxx” and states that a package you sent was not able to be delivered and that you are required ...

A friend recently asked me a question about email messages. He wanted to know why he was receiving notifications that his email was "undeliverable" to person "xyz" when he doesn't even know "xyz" and insists he never sent the message. So what happened? Did his computer get hacked? Did he get a virus? Probably not. This is a symptom of a clever trick used by spammers.

As you can tell from some of my previous posts, I'm into productivity tools. I recently found a site that helps solve a problem - keeping track of my stuff. Have every tried to remember something you heard, saw on the net, or viewed on television and didn't have a place to jot it down? Remember all those Google searches you were going to do once you got back to your computer? Of course not, you forget them all.

We’ve all gotten them. That email that a co-worker or friend forwards to us about about a sick child who wants to break a world record for receiving the most postcards, or perhaps you’ve seen the email urging you to quickly put your mobile phone number on the “Do not call” registry or else you will start receiving telemarketing calls on your cell.

If you like to be mobile with your computer, then you probably have used public Wi-Fi or perhaps even a pay-per-use Wi-Fi hotspot. If so, then you should be careful about how you read email while connected to one of these public access points. Most public Wi-Fi providers do not require you to make a secure connection to their wireless router. This leaves your transmissions easily readable by eavesdroppers. You can protect yourself with a very simple change to your web browsing behavior.

Have you wanted to find an online document editor with a few more formatting features than Google Docs? Check out Adobe's Buzzword as an alternative. Adobe has released Buzzword; an online word processor with an intuitive user interface and some additional features that make it worth taking a look at.

Have you ever needed to use a command prompt or terminal windows and didn't want to type a long path and filename for a file that you needed to work on in the terminal or command prompt window? Simply drag and drop the file to the terminal and filenames will be expanded automatically. No need to type the whole long path and make a mistake. Let the OS do if for you.