Category Archives: The web
How to Keep Sites from Spying on Your Copy and Paste
Many news sites, from Wired to my local newspaper, have taken to adding a ‘feature’ to their articles — any text you copy and paste is silently broadcast to another site. That other site, Tynt, keeps track of what you … Continue reading
Why Google Voice’s “keep my number” feature isn’t a good idea
Google Voice, the service that gives you a universal phone number, free SMS, and text transcripts of your voicemail, is now letting new users keep their current phone number when signing up. On the surface this sounds like a great … Continue reading
Google Reader adds recommended feeds — and magic!
An update to Google Reader this afternoon added recommended feeds. Sounds promising, if it works on learning what people really like — it did realize I read a lot of soccer blogs (what gave it away?), but the first recommendation … Continue reading
Do we really need a tablet PC?
Rumors of an Apple-made tablet have been swirling for years and have picked up in recent months. At first I longed for a well-made tablet — something that could provide the portable-ness and touch screen of my iPhone but with … Continue reading
5 Reasons why Twitter should not replace your RSS feed
Recently, many blogs have gotten into the habit of putting links to all of their posts on Twitter. Sure, this lets their followers find out about new posts in real time, but it’s really stepping into the territory of RSS … Continue reading