Category Archives: Digital Life
Block Facebook invites (without unfriending people)
When I create an event on FB it’s easiest for me to just invite everyone, but two friends messaged me today asking to be removed from my announcement list. They live far from me and aren’t going to attend any … Continue reading
BIGGER attacks on internet freedom
People have a right to privacy and also a right to develop our own minds and make thoughtful decisions. Every time major corporations and governments acquire one more way to track our activities and interests, compile statistics about what we … Continue reading
‘Barbershop Punk’ documentary explains Net Neutrality and issues
Michelle Maisto of Connected Planet writes, “Barbershop Punk,” a David-and-Goliath style documentary about Net Neutrality and citizen’s rights to the Internet has been touring the film festival scene and on Friday night — a day after the Senate voted to … Continue reading
Who Has Your Back on The Web?
Internet privacy is a matter of online civil liberty. Friends, we have an ongoing need to educate ourselves about what privacy means in the Internet environment and take action to protect it. The Internet “space” we live in today is … Continue reading
FCC forms net-neutrality committee
by Sara Jerome / 04/27/11 03:01 PM ET
Only one sentence space in digital documents!
People, we should be using only a single space between sentences in electronic documents. Many of us still use two! Here’s where the two-space spacing came from and the explanation of why today, one space is enough!
No user privacy on iPhones & iPads
Did you know that data is collected by Apple applications running on iPhones and iPads, and is transmitted to the applications’ owners, without you knowing about this? Craig Michael Lie Njie of KismetWorldWide learned while creating an application for his … Continue reading
Macbook i5 and i7 run too hot?
I asked an ebay seller for his thoughts about the last generation core duo Macbook Pros and the newer i5s (15″) and i7s (17″), “I’d stay away from the newer MPB models until Apple solves the heating issue . . … Continue reading
$35 tablet computer changes everything
The idea that everything costs a lot of money has been a constant in the United States for way too long. Only this concept would account for very boring hamburgers costing about $4.00 at today’s fast food restaurants – an … Continue reading
The Crime of Reason
Robert B. Laughlin, Department of Physics at Stanford University gave this talk at the Xerox PARC Forum on October 23, 2008.