I’m still looking for the perfect newsreader. Here’s another candidate: Newzie. It boasts News Bar System Tray Popup Notifier News Highlights News SlideShow Content Filtering Enhanced Tabbed-Windows Newzie in DeskBar Mode Spacious Browsing Read Posts in Decoration or List Mode Track Activities and Feel the Recency in Colors (whatever that means) Newzie is free, and… Read More »
Update Nov 6 2006: To avoid confusion I’ve moved all this back to the original page. Here’s a directory of applications designed to run on USB drives, a subject I wrote about in the AWSJ and WSJ.com (subscription required; sorry). This list includes those suggestions kindly sent in by readers from the last posting. Please… Read More »
Here’s what Rick Brown said of his Inspector Brown anti-phishing toolbar in response to my questions about its failure to catch the cross scripting phish mentioned here: Our software works to protect our community of users and allow each user the ability to fight back against spam, phishers and online fraud. Yes, its true, not… Read More »
Stealing passwords in the old days used to involve shoulder surfing — cruising past the mark while s/he’s tapping in her/his password into the computer/ATM/cookie dispenser. But I had a scare today that made me realise that this is still a pretty easy way to get information. Newly landed in Hong Kong, I breezed over… Read More »
As part of Google’s localization push, the search engine will figure from your IP address what country you’re in and configure itself accordingly into a local site, with a local country suffix, and, sometimes, local language options. Fair enough, except for travellers and people who are quite happy with things as they are. Running Google… Read More »