Gadgetopia

Internet meltdown predicted for tomorrow: I give odds at 100-to-1 that this will actually happen. A Russian computer security expert has predicted that a large chunk of the Internet will be shut down by terrorists tomorrow. Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs was speaking at a conference hosted by Russian Information ...

Style Master Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Editor: Western Civilisation has released Style Master 3. We've talked about this software before. About a year ago, we said. "...I don't see a need for it, really. It's a GUI for building CSS sheets with controls for just about every possible directive and ...

Michael Robertson (the guy from MP3.com, Linspire, and now SIPPhone) writes up "Michael's Minute" a few times a month, which is sort of a letter to customers that's often informative, but usually relates to MS-vs-Linux type issues. This week, though, he wrote a thinker of a piece on how far ...

There's an Australian company called Western Civilisation that I've come to know because they have (1) good CSS documentation, and (2) fantastic search engine placement. Whenever I search for something related to CSS on Google, they're one of the first results. They sell courses on HTML, CSS, and Web colors ...

I rarely eat at McDonalds, but while on vacation last week our kids talked us into it as we drove across western Nebraska. My wife ordered a Big Mac, and unbeknownst to me, they had a Sony Connect promo going on where you get a free music download with every ...

I'm a big fan of wind power. I drive east on I-90 every few months, and there are three or four small wind farms between here and Blue Earth, Minnesota. I love the look of those big white windmills, spinning on the prairie. There was an article in the local ...

Cybercrooks lure citizens into international crime: This an interesting article about how crooks are duping people into helping them use information they've phished for. We all understand how they get the credit card information from email scams, but this is a good look at what happens to it after that. ...