Using WiFi to check your email has a simple little security problem, most of the time your user name and password are transmitted in plain text, pretty simple for someone to grab your info, at home more and more people are using some kind of security (WEP or WPA) but when you hit the local coffee shop its as open as can be, so one way that can be used on gmail is to use HTTPS instead of plain HTTP, so now your user name and password are encrypted along with all of your emails at this point.

Amazon.com has opened a new DRM free MP3 download service to compete with Apples iTunes Music Store. I have only purchased a few songs from iTunes first because of the DRM on them and it ties it to only a couple devices, I use many computers in a day so being able to use the music lots of places is a must, I also use Tivo Destop to serve my music but it only handles MP3 format, not AAC, as a matter of fact I'm not a fan of the AAC format for this reason.

I watch the videocasts on Tivo like CrankyGeeks and CNet, but there are a few like Diggnation and CommandN that I have wanted to watch on my bigscreen TV not my laptop, so converting the downloaded video to the correct format has always been a pain until I was introduced to VisualHub ( http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/ ) it pretty much takes any format video and converts it to any format, there are profiles for everything from VCD to a special one for Tivo.

A Quick tip on speeding web browsing on my Powerbook or any other computer by using an alternative DNS Server. I had run into Safari being slow in the past and recomended a way to speed things up but I now have even an easier way, using a free service called Open DNS, its not a new service or anything but it sure works sweet, you simply go to their website http://www.opendns.com/ and on the right side there are two DNS numbers, you add those into your network settings in the system preferences and thats it for a basic easy way to do it.

I was sitting home one night thinking how nice it is that iTunes has streaming audio, I like to have sound as I'm sitting at my desk while working, but NPR goes just so far.

check out the video on the New Mac stuff (not to mention she is pleasing to the eyes)

With all the new Web Development I have been doing lately I have learned some great new tips, I moved my websites from my own Linux servers over to Bluehost (see add to the left) and it has worked out great, all my websites on one server for one price, all the email accounts.. everything in one package.

After being a longtime user of Log Me In for my Windows computers I have been bitching that its not available for Apples OS X, well no longer... its available in Beta for free for Apple users, yes you heard me right log me in is available for OSX. This will allow Apple users to log into their machines from anywhere and use the machine as if they were sitting in fromt of it, a free remote desktop software that will blast through your home or work firewall and works with pretty much any internet connection; either Static or Dynamic IP adress is no trouble for log me in.

well after running my own servers for some time I have moved a few sites over to bluehost (this site is still on my own servers until I get the content moved over nicely) I will say that this company rocks, they give you a ton of space, bandwidth seems great, I can host as many sites as I want and still only pay $6.95 a month, it includes emails for any of my domains, so far its unreal how nice th

As everyone knows I am somewhat of a Tivo freak, its one of my favorite electronic toys there is; I own two Tivo’s along with a couple computers running Tivo server software so I can store shows for later use.