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| Book Review - Michal Zalewski's 'The Tangled Web' | 2011 11 | 2011/11/12 TonyLawrence | |||
| - We will not have ventured very far into the Internet forest before we realize that our 'crack team' of web browsers is anything but. Most of them can't seem to tell a squirrel from a poisonous snake. When they do decide to point their weapons at something threatening, we had better duck ourselves, because their aim is atrociously bad. Suspicious looking miscreants appear at the edges of our trail and beckon us to follow them into the dark woods; our guides lay down their weapons and, with beaming grins, trot off never to be seen again! - | |||||
| Ucertify Review | 2011 09 | 2013/02/05 anonymous | |||
| - Whether certifications have any value is an entirely different question. I would suggest that you NOT bother with certification unless you are planning to apply for a specific job that requires it or if you are just starting out and have no experience to brag about. Many people like myself look upon certifications as having little real value - it's 'book knowledge' that doesn't necessarily translate into real skills. However, some employment opportunities may require these as an indication that you have at least basic knowledge. So let's just leave that argument for another day. The rest of this article assumes that certification has value for you. - | |||||
| Brother MFC-J615W printer | 2011 08 | ||||
| - I have never been a fan of inkjet printers. In fact. my general advice has been not to buy them because hey are far more expensive to operate than laser printer. These multifunction things have even more to dislike: if you lose part of the functionality, you are going to lose it all while it is out for repair. - | |||||
| 123D Sculpt from Autodesk - cool! | 2011 08 | ||||
| - This is a 3D drawing app. More to the point, it's a 3D drawing app for people like me who have no artistic talent at all. It makes every other drawing/sketching tool I have look really, really lame. - | |||||
| TinyTERM ITX for Mac | 2011 05 | ||||
| - TinyTERM ITX for Mac OS X is somewhat disappointing - the emulation is fine, but it is a poor Mac app. - | |||||
| Sophos free anti-virus for Mac | 2011 05 | 2011/05/23 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Although the main threat to Macs is trojans and malware, not viruses, the common man doesn't distinguish these - they are all the same to most folks. - | |||||
| Virtual PC for Mac OS X | 2003 07 | ||||
| - This is a review of an ancient Virtual PC product and is only left here for historical purposes. - | |||||
| Cool Tools: Network View - a network node discovery tool | 2003 08 | 2012/04/13 AlVidetto | |||
| - Identifying addresses and open ports on a network, network node discovery tool. I'm not the only one who maintains this company's network. The operations guy is pretty capable and doesn't mind setting up PCs - he enjoys it. Well, between me and him we had lost track of PC, printers, WAPs, routers, more routers and such like that. We needed a network discovery tool and we found a great one by Michael Welschenbach at http://www.networkview.com/. - | |||||
| Verizon Cell Phone Internet Connections | 2003 06 | 2010/11/11 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Making internet connections with cell phone. I then verified with Verizon that there is no additional costs for using the "Express Network" which claims speeds up to 144k. I usually average between 20-40k, which really blows away my normal dial-up connection at home, since we still do not have any broadband options in my area. During normal "peak" usage, the time spent using the data is billed against my normal minutes. I have unlimitted night and weekend usage, so I could be connected to the network all weekend without additional charges. That's when I plan on downloading O/S patch upgrades. - | |||||
| Google's Gmail | 2004 06 | ||||
| - Why is this so good? The problem all heavy email users have is organizing and searching our mail. It isn't the instantaneous reading and sending that is our major concern; it's finding records of conversations. In traditional email applications, we do that by dumping messages in folders, and tagging messages with labels or color codes. Gmail has a better way. - | |||||
| Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal | 2009 05 | ||||
| - Old-timers like me couldn't avoid being exposed to command line interfaces - that's all we had when we started Younger people and people who simply started using computers a bit later weren't necessarily exposed to any command line. Any computer they ever used had a graphical user interface and while it still may have had a command line available, there was seldom any incentive to use it. That apparent lack of any compelling reason remains true, but in fact understanding the command line can give you much more control over your computer and allow you to accomplish some tasks much more quickly and easily. - | |||||
| Cell Phone Internet Connections | 2003 06 | ||||
| - How to use your cell phone as Internet access point. You can get text messaging with almost any cell phone nowadays, and it's no great trick to forward email to that. The problem is that it's too hard to read that way: long messages get broken up, the cellphone doesn't have a great keyboard, and it just isn't worth the trouble. - | |||||
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| Using Rsnapshot | 2005 02 | 2011/02/13 OscarGonzalez | |||
| - Rsnapshot is a Perl script that uses rsync to create incremental backups - | |||||
| Damn Small Linux | 2006 06 | ||||
| - A versatile live cd and more: Damn Small Linux was the first distro to give me a hard time. Don't panic, DSL fans. It wasn't DSL's fault. It booted quickly, obtained an IP automatically, and was ready to run. Except.. - | |||||
| SquidGuard | 2001 09 | ||||
| - squidGuard works with Squid to block access to sites by domain, ip address or even keywords. - | |||||
| Fugu SSH/SFTP Client | 2006 07 | ||||
| - Fugo is a Mac OS X SFTP, SCP and SSH Frontend with some very strange quirks. - | |||||
| Cheap LED Bulbs | 2009 03 | 2010/10/19 BillMcK | |||
| - I was looking to use these inside. I put them in a lamp near my wife's computer. This wasn't done without some convincing: my wife is very fussy about her lighting. However, like me she's cheap, so the prospect of replacing 40 wattbulbs with 1.5 watts attracted her enough to at least give it a trial run. - | |||||
| CleanCode Email | 2003 11 | ||||
| - Using Cleancode email client - a neat little command line utility for scripting outgoing mail without Sendmail. - | |||||
| Smultron Editor | 2006 06 | 2010/04/16 MartinvanDijken | |||
| - Smultron editor for Mac is not my kind of tool. I'm quite happy with vi, thank you anyway. - | |||||
| Verizon FIOS | 2006 06 | 2012/07/12 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Verizon FIOS for Internet access - far, far better than the Comcast cable service we had previously. - | |||||
| blacklist unwanted ip addresses | 2005 05 | ||||
| - It's easy enough to add an iptables rule to blacklist a particular ip address. You can even automate the process based on certain criteria that you define. - | |||||
| Microsoft's Services For Unix | 2003 06 | ||||
| - Microsoft's Services For Unix produce an acceptable emergency Unixish environment under Windows. That's the best I can give it. - | |||||
| Kermit 95 2.1.3 | 2003 03 | 2011/03/31 TonyLawrence | |||
| - This is a review of an ancient terminal emulation product and is only left here for historical purposes. - | |||||
| SCO Openserver release 5.0.7 | 2003 03 | ||||
| - Assuming you cannot run Linux, here is a lot to like in the 5.0.7 release of SCO Openserver. - | |||||
| Digiboard Port Server | 2000 01 | ||||
| - Digiboard PortServers are excellent ways to convert older serial devices to TCP/IP. - | |||||
| Mac OS X maintenance tools | 2006 11 | ||||
| - 'Swiss Army Knives' for Mac OS X ? Do you need them? There's nothing they do you can't do yourself, of course. - | |||||
| Essential Linux Device Drivers | 2008 05 | ||||
| - I admit that it's very hard to write a good book in this area. You simply have to make assumptions about the readers knowledge - if you don't, you'll be writing an encyclopedia or two. - | |||||
| Spamassassin on Mac OS X | 2003 03 | ||||
| - Adding Spamassassin on Mac OS X Mail requires a bit of trickery and misdirection. - | |||||
| Panasonic LF-D201U DVD-RAM | 2001 09 | ||||
| - DVD-RAM is optical storage that: * Is relatively inexpensive * Holds a large amount of data (4.7GB per side at this writing) * Can be re-written hundreds of thousands of times * Has an expected media life of 30 years * Is bootable * Is really ideal for small system backup - | |||||
| Keurig B-60 for the Home Office | 2009 07 | 2010/05/31 TonyLawrence | |||
| - I have been eying Keurig Single Cup coffee makers for some time now. - | |||||
| iPhone Open Application Development | 2008 05 | ||||
| - I assumed that this was supposed to augment and explain Apple's iPhone SDK. Silly me, of course not: this is about jail-breaking your phone and hacking apps that way. - | |||||
| Parallels Workstation | 2006 04 | ||||
| - Run Windows and Linux on Intel Macs with Parallels Workstation for Mac OS X. Installation and activation was simple - typical Mac package install. - | |||||
| Netscape Communicator 4.7 | 2000 01 | ||||
| - (This page is of historical interest only. It is a review of a really ancient browser on a mostly defunct OS) - | |||||
| Win4Lin | 2000 04 | ||||
| - This is not at all like Wine; with Win4Lin you actually install Windows 95 or Windows 98 - | |||||
| Multitech RF550VPN SOHO VPN Router | 2002 03 | ||||
| - This is a review of an ancient Multitech router product and is only left here for historical purposes. - | |||||
| Mac iBook with Mac OS X | 2002 12 | ||||
| - Mac Ibook with Mac OS X was my first Apple computer and definitely was not my last. - | |||||
| Forinet FortiGate-50 - What Network Security should be | 2003 07 | ||||
| - Fortinet FortiGate-50 - What Network Security shouldbe - | |||||
| iPad Application Development For Dummies | 2010 04 | ||||
| - Very good explanation of iPhone/iPad SDK development nuts and bolts - | |||||
| Western Digital My Book USB drive | 2007 05 | ||||
| - At Staples, the help is trained to turn their heads and walk rapidly away from any customers. What the heck was this kid up to asking me if I needed help? - | |||||
| Thoth Newsreader for Mac OS X | 2003 06 | ||||
| - This is an old review of Thoth Newsreader and is only left here for historical purposes. - | |||||
| Book Review: Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (Second Edition) | 2009 01 | ||||
| - learning objective c programming for mac os x and iphone: I have to wonder how much of its intended audience will be reading much of this part either. I can't think too many people with no prior exposure to object oriented C are going to pick this up for their first venture into Mac OS X programming. More likely they'll come from a background even deeper and stronger than mine and will be skimming through the first 300 pages even faster than I did: classes, check - good analogies, not over drawn, basic types, check, inheritance, polymorphism, check, check.. let's get to the OS X stuff! - | |||||
| Super Tars | 1998 12 | ||||
| - General overview of Unix/Linux supertar backup software, which provide backup flexibility and bare metal recovery. - | |||||
| Parallels Coherence for Mac | 2006 12 | ||||
| - Latest Parallels beta adds new features - including integrating Windows apps as though they were Mac apps. - | |||||
| Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript | 2010 10 | 2011/03/30 TonyLawrence | |||
| - A simpler way to build mobile apps using HTML, CSS and Javacript rather than C++ coding. - | |||||
| Google Analytics | 2010 09 | ||||
| - I was happy to find this, if for no other reason than it introduced me to the author's Analytics Talk blog, which I was not previously aware of. - | |||||
| Xcode 3 Unleashed | 2010 04 | ||||
| - Knowing Xcode is definitely part of knowing the SDK: Yeah, well that worked - sort of. You can just wander in and use Xcode without really knowing all that much about it. However, you'll probably miss things that can really add to your productivity. - | |||||
| Beginning iPhone 3 Development | 2010 04 | ||||
| - I liked this because it dove right in to things I need to know about the iPhone SDK - | |||||
| The iPhone Developers Cookbook | 2010 04 | ||||
| - This book helped clear some confusion about the iPhone SDK: This title was mentioned frequently when I was looking for good books to get me started with iPhone/iPad programming. There were a few negative comments - one particular jibe from a college professor was especially cutting. He's probably one who gets all snitty if a students indentation style doesn't match his own, so I ignored that. - | |||||
| The Art of Assembly Language - 2d Edition | 2010 04 | ||||
| - This is why I never get anything done. I had my whole week carefully laid out in front of me and then No Starch Press sent me a review copy of Randall Hyde's Art of Assembly Language (2d Edition). - | |||||
| Budgeting with Mint.com | 2009 12 | 2010/02/25 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Mint is a financial tracking and monitoring tool. I used it for a few months and was both surprised and disappointed by my spending. - | |||||
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| Friends with Benefits | 2009 11 | ||||
| - Excellent book on social media marketing: Aaargh! OK, I'll read the damn thing, I thought. Maybe there's enough fodder here for a scathing review - tear the skin right off the authors and roast them on a spit! That'll teach that publisher not to send me junk when I don't want it. I sat myself down on the couch and started reading. - | |||||
| The Art of SEO | 2009 11 | 2010/09/08 TonyLawrence | |||
| - I hope this book helps put an end to ridiculously priced SEO courses. It could also help eliminate some of the shadier practitioners of SEO, but I'd be happy if it just helps a few people avoid wasting money on nonsense. - | |||||
| Network Know-How | 2009 10 | ||||
| - This is the book I'd give to someone who needed to learn a lot, quickly. - | |||||
| Googled: The End of the World As We Know It | 2009 09 | ||||
| - The effect of Google upon society and business isn't neglected. All of this is looked at deeply. What does Google mean to other companies? What does Google's growth mean to itself? - | |||||
| Take Control of Mac OS X Backups | 2009 09 | ||||
| - Although there is OS X specific material, this is actually good for any OS, not only Mac. - | |||||
| Windows 7 Secrets | 2009 09 | ||||
| - This begins by calling those who dumped on Vista know-nothings and clowns - no bias there! - | |||||
| Aquasana Premium Under Counter Drinking System | 2009 08 | ||||
| - We bought this Aquasana under sink water filter and have been very happy. Easy installation, easy maintenance. - | |||||
| The Myths of Security | 2009 07 | ||||
| - I think this is easily the most entertaining security book I've ever read. John has a sense of humor and strong opinions. Combine that with a lifetime of experience in computer security and you get a fun read. - | |||||
| Unscientific America | 2009 07 | ||||
| - I felt that both of these were strongly biased, exhibited obvious prejudice and were also very shallow and unstatisfying. - | |||||
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