Interesting article by Nick Langley of ComputerWeekly about ‘The demise of the warchalkers’ (warchalkers are those folk who advertise, via street scribblings, the location of publicly available and free Internet access via WiFi points: “The fall in warchalking has been attributed to the rise in public wireless Lan services, either those that are paid for or… Read More »
Karen’s Powertools have long been a favourite of mine. Check out her latest: an updated version of her Computer Profiler. The program “displays hundreds of bits of information about your computer and the software it uses. Programs you’ve installed, facts about your disk drives, printers, memory, and network connections, even dozens of details of Windows… Read More »
Quite a few folk have asked where AlphaSmart’s products, reviewed here last week, can be bought outside the US. Here’s their international website. Let me know if you’re having problems getting hold of one, and I’ll pass it on. JW
Further to my recent column on spam, a reader from Selangor, Malaysia, J. Allen Otten, recommends SpamNet from Cloudpoint: “Works rather well and I do not lose emails I really should get. Cloudpoint places spam (and suspected spam) in a folder called Spam. If it fails to catch a message that is spam, you can… Read More »
Glaser rates the most influential blogs Mark Glaser in his Glaser Online column with Online Journalism Review shares his list of the most influential Web blogs. Glaser divides the blogs into liberal, conservative and media business blogs. Some of those rated highly in his list are: E-Media Tidbits, PaidContent.org, Andrew Sullivan and Instapundit. Mark Glaser’s… Read More »