Hey Surur, Quick Question

Surur, Smith and I are butting heads on something, maybe you could settle this please? As usual we are trying to get this site rolling with enough traffic that there’s a debate in almost every post (you know, like on your site). On one particular issue of contention, my position on defibrillating this puppy is … Read more

Oh Help Me with T-Mobile Plans!

So my wife and I are on a Family Even More 750mins no text for $60 plus 2x 5GB premium data (“unlimited”)  for $30 each plus taxes and all that other crap, the contract has expired. I’ve been itching to get a Nexus 4, and she’s been itching for anything as she broke her Nexus … Read more

Who is @th3j35t3r

While this post is not directly related to security…I felt it was worth sharing with others. Who is th3j35t3r?  That’s the million dollar question now isn’t it? For those not familiar th3j35t3r is a cyber-activist known for attacking known terrorist websites as well as Westboro Baptist Church and factions of Anonymous. There have been many … Read more

Calm Down Surface Pro Commercial Haters Apple Hasn’t Had A Good Commercial In Years Either!

Had a few Tweets that were stemming from an article written by David K about the Surface Pro commercials during the Grammy’s. He felt that they failed to explain the product. Even though Ramon and I, who are much cooler than he is BTW, respectfully disagreed, he has fired back and said that BGR also … Read more

AT&T Promoting Apathy At The Workplace

There is no doubt that smart phones have greatly aided us to be more efficient at our jobs. No one knows this more than me. I use my AT&T iPhone 5 daily to conference with my International clients and respond to emails in the evening hours because of the time difference. With my exchange email … Read more

Name That Phone!

This genius was in the news, some article about 128GB iPads, and if you look closely at the picture, you’ll see him rocking what definitely isn’t an iPhone. What the heck is it? My vote is the LG Nexus 4. Here, let me line up the contenders. I needn’t stress how important it is that we figure this out for obvious reasons…

MobilityLeaks: Binders Full of Pageviews

On 01/23/13 David K wrote: Any way to share a WiFi connection in WP? Internet sharing doesn’t work – its cell data only. This place charges per device and I’ll make my surface public but if prefer to pay them for a single device. Thanks

Stephen Mesik: There is a virtual WiFi adapter in Windows 7 and 8 that can do that with a network bridge to your “real” physical adapter. I don’t remember if it’s in RT.

David K: When I connect on the Surface of asks if I want to share […]

A cautionary tale for Christmas, and help me to be EVIL!

Last June, my local independent TV station ran an article on their website about people falling for “Windows Tech Support” scams.  These are the ones where they call you up out of the blue, and say, “Your computer is reporting it has a virus. Please go to such-and-such a website, and we’ll help you clean … Read more

Cops

So when you’re speeding on the highway and you team up with another speeder, are your odds of getting pulled over lower if you’re tailing him or if you’re in the lead? If you’re the second car, the cop spots the other guy first and maybe psychologically latches onto that car as his target, on … Read more

Tachometer App: Doable?

Actually yes, I just searched and I found one or two tach apps with reviews suggesting they sort of work, never mind. Well no, let me take this a step farther for my app idea gift to you developers: We have speed, altitude gradient and distance apps, guitar tuner apps, tachometer apps apparently, we have … Read more

Hey SwiftKey, Beta Invite Now! Please!

Perhaps the biggest conundrum for Android users is weighing the one-handed convenience of Swype against the God-like prediction muscle of SwiftKey, wishing, longing, yearning for a soft keyboard that has the power of both. Well it’s taken forever but SwiftKey is fixin’ to deliver just that, calling it Swiftkey Flow, currently in semi-private beta (I’m … Read more