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Redefining Anti-Virus Software

A quick and interesting article over at blog.washingtonpost.com discusses the new emerging trend in anti-virus software technology.
It’s program whitelisting. The concept itself is of course not a new one. Have one big list with signature of benign ALLOWED programs, and any program not in the list is a suspect and will not be allowed to [...]

Yoggie announces Gatekeeper Card Pro

If you’ve been following this blog for some time, you know I’m working at Yoggie, a great company with great products.
As I’ve written before, Yoggie’s Gatekeeper Pico is essentially a USB-sized miniature computer running Linux and a full Internet security suite, so you just stick it into the USB port of a Windows machine and [...]

TeamViewer - Best free remote control software

For years I’ve been the technical support call center for, mainly, my mother. She’s had to work with a computer for the last decade or so, with a specific industry software. She can, mechanically, perform all the actions necessary to control that specific application - But anything beyond that is completely beyond her.
Naturally, throughout these [...]

How to download album covers for iTunes without an account

If you’re an iPod owner, or like me, an iPhone owner, you have no choice but to use iTunes for uploading your MP3 collection.
One super-cool feature is downloading the album cover art for all your songs and that cool 3D like browsing through album covers - But guess what? You must have an iTunes account [...]