‘General’ Archives
Looking for great, local training for Apple and Web 2.0 products? Become an HMAUS member!
It seems like every week there's some new product or service that HMAUS is demonstrating. HMAUS (Hawaii Mac & Apple User Society) offers help to people looking to expand their world a bit with discussions and training on things like social networking, photography, iPad, and much more. In fact this week there are two great sessions coming [...]
Security Tip: Regularly Check Your Website Scripts For Updates
If you are a website owner, you might think that once you get your site up and running you no longer have to do much. But consider how easy it is for your website to be hacked. You WANT people to visit it and look around. You WANT to show off the cool functionality of your site. Well, that same functionality can get outdated pretty [...]
Google Announces Ways to Opt-out of Analytics
In a move that will surely upset those obsessed with their web stats, and bring some joy to those concerned with online privacy, Google has announced that they are offering tools to opt-out of their very popular Analytics. For site owners and stats jockeys, the ability for individuals to more easily hide visits to web sites using Analytics is a [...]
Interesting recent stories
Here's a selection of some interesting privacy stories: Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac addresses Protect Your Privacy Opt Out of Facebook’s New Instant Personalization – Yes You Have to Opt Out Facebook May Not Be Skynet, but It Is Getting Smarter, and That's Bad for Google: "Facebook has managed to succeed where Google [...]
Mac Software Deals On Now
There's several deals on some great Mac software: MacBuzzer is giving away a free copy of the archival app, Rucksack, for the price of one of your Twitter tweets. Click that MacBuzzer "Get It Now" button and tweet away. Etude is giving away a license to their Mac music app, SimpleChord for one of your tweets. Learn more [...]
Upcoming Geek Events: Unconferenz and HMAUS Springfest
Unconferenz has rescheduled to Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 8:00 AM - 4:00 AM at Kapiolani Community College. (This was postponed due to the Tsunami Warnings the day of the original event.) A wide variety of topics and a great chance to network. Sign up on their site now to get a t-shirt and lunch. HMAUS (Hawaii Mac and Apple User Society) [...]
How To “Hide” From Google
Hiding from Google First, you may be wondering, WHY hide from Google. The answer is that perhaps you don't want one entity to know all about you, your friends, and your internet activities. But, there are many people that WANT to be found by their name and activities; they don't mind that old relationships, strangers, or advertisers know [...]
Syncplicity: backup and syncing with 3GB FREE
One of the requests I hear from people is they want to backup up their files (MP3's, videos, photos, and documents) but be able to also view them on different computers, wherever they might be: across town or across the world. Are you looking for a way to backup and sync files between Windows computers? Looking to have a safe way to view those [...]
Amazon has Snow Leopard and Windows 7 for pre-order
Amazon has Snow Leopard Mac OS X version 10.6 (the upgrade to Leopard) available for pre-order on its site for $29. Their Free-Shipping option works even to Hawaii! Amazon also has Windows 7 available for pre-order. Prices start at $119.99 for the Home Premium Upgrade, or $199.99 for the Professional Upgrade. The difference depends on [...]
BlueHost running special: $3.95/month hosting
I've used BlueHost for several sites and client sites. They are a reliable, quality hosting company. Features include CPanel (for easy graphical access to your site), unlimited domain hosting, free domain, PHP/MySQL, easy site-script installation (used to be Fantastico), and many others. For $3.95/month it's a great deal going on now, [...]
