Our first two stories explain this headline…the first is how cyber crooks are threatening us from both hostile and friendly countries. The second story is about our Internet and First Amendment rights are being threatened by our own Congress.
There are also two interesting stories on e-books, one of which is when digital books will surpass printed books. As an avid e-book reader, I found both stories very interesting. While I still do read the occasional paper book, I actually prefer reading on my Kindle…and the number of books I have read has skyrocketed since I got my first Kindle.
Finally, this will be my last tech blog for a couple of weeks. I am leaving in a couple of days on one of my photo expeditions…this time to photograph the autumn colors in Zion National Park and the Escalante region of Southern Utah. But have no fear, I will be back and continue on with my computer tech stories for all us non-nerds. Until then…JRC
Cybersecurity: The Cybermugging of America
A recent report from the U.S. National Counterintelligence Agency warns that cyber crooks in all corners of the globe are increasingly targeting U.S. Interests. The perpetrators are intelligence services, private sector companies, academic and research institutions and private citizens in dozens of foreign countries, some of which are our allies, the report claims.
New House of Representatives bill may strangle the Internet or nerf the First Amendment
Let me be clear. If you love your Internet, you must read this article. Congress is once again mucking around with our rights, and it ain’t good.
How to find out if your email address has been compromised
An enterprising group of security researchers has created a massive list of 'pwned' email addresses and user names. Take a minute to see if you're on it. I hope you are not.
Amazon launches free e-book borrowing for Prime members
In an interesting twist on e-book lending that's sure to rile competitors, Amazon has launched the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, which allows Amazon Prime members to check out up to one e-book a month for free with no due date.
eBooks vs. Print Books
The question about ebooks is not if they will pass print, but when. The short answer is ... not yet, but we'll have a much better idea in January.
Two Tips to Help Find What You Are Looking For in a Web Search
Do you ever do a search with Google or other search engine that turns up a promising (but long) page where you can’t seem to find a mention of your search terms? The page looks like it might be what you are looking for but you don't see where your particular subject is discussed. Here are two ways to deal with this common frustration.
Clip, crop, wow: 7 tips on using photography in PowerPoint
We put together a series of free, short, training videos to help you. Lesson 1 deals almost exclusively with adding and manipulating photos in PowerPoint.
How to Buy an MP3 Player
Even though many of us have ditched our MP3 players in favor of cell phones or tablets that can play our digital music, the dedicated portable media player (PMP) market does still exist.
How To Reduce Memory Usage in Firefox with MemoryFox
Do you use Firefox? Most of our readers do and we all know that 10 open tabs can be highly problematic for our system memory. There have been times I have seen my Firefox get close to 1.5 gigs of memory. That is just unacceptable!
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