The infamous “top-secret” document-leaking web site WikiLeaks recovered just Monday from what appeared to be a massive, week-long DDoS attack from thousands of distinct IP addresses. The group took assistance from security and performance firm Cloudfare in order to handle the extra capacity needed to withstand the attack– over 10 gigabits per second. A posting […]
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Google, Inc announced today that it has developed an iPhone and iPad compatible version of its popular Chrome web browser. The browser, which is available now in the App Store, offers many of the same features from the desktop version of Chrome, including synchronization across devices of bookmarks and tabs, as well as private “incognito” […]
Apple ][ Scans has completed scanning the entire Obsorne / McGraw Hill Guide to Your Apple /// available on their website. According to Apple ][ Scans Curator, Mike Maginnis, the original scan had “the first two chapters of this book and made it available online. It had some great notes from Dave Ottalini inserted in […]
A couple of months ago I posted an article about a “home made” antenna I made from plans on the internet. A couple of days ago I completed an antenna with a different design I also found on the internet. Last night I held a demo of it for some friends (including a couple of […]
Regular readers will know I’m into DIY and fixing things. Lately my Linux PC has been having some hardware problems (which is why people haven’t been seeing a lot of regular posts from me lately). It’s been going on for some time in fact. I’ve checked out a lot of potential hardware issues and ended […]
Apple Inc. (AAPL) Shares were trading at a low of $516.22 USD per share in the morning session on Wall Street. The obvious antincipation of Apple’s new offerings without any real news, weighing on the stock heavily. However, after the morning’s losses, the stock has climbed back to the $530-531 USD per share price range […]
I’ve discovered something surprising. There are many E-book readers for the Mac and only one for Linux. This is a shocker. Ideally, with a few changes, those Mac readers should function under Linux. I mention this because I like how some of the ones for the Mac work. The reader for Linux is so-so. Since […]
A quick read of all of the supporting documentation for the iBooks Author program show that there are some limitations to the program. Apple shows the limit at 2GB and actually recommends only 1GB in order to make it easily accessible to the users. While this is not all that unusual for Apple to recommend […]
Frank Kunze has posted a slew of new screenshots on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online Blog showing some of his work on the recently announced Eamon Deluxe 5.0. Eamon Deluxe is Franks offshoot of the original Donald Brown created classic Eamon. The latest version of Eamon Deluxe will run on multiple platforms and will also […]
Popular news website Reddit is planning on a 12 hour blackout in protest against the SOPA piracy bill that is currently being considered in the U.S. House of Representatives. Apparently Wikipedia will be joining Reddit in that Protest as will many other websites acorss the Internet. While the goal of SOPA was to make it […]
