A Tech Evangelist is someone who loves, lives, breathes and preaches technology as a solution to almost any problem.
That is what we do and we try to do it well.
With open source software it is fairly easy for knowledgeable hackers to find vulnerabilities in code. Although vulnerabilities are quickly patched with WordPress due to a very pro-active development team, there are steps that should be taken to secure WordPress against hack attacks.
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Were you just locked out of your WordPress blog’s administration area? When you try to access the admin area, do you see the error message, “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page”? Did you just recently run a prefix changer to tighten the security of your blog? Read the rest of this entry »
What would you say if you found out that there was a way for a web site to store up to 100,000 bytes of information on your PC that they can use for tracking your activities, and you have no control over it with your normal browser security settings? Would you be surprised? What if these files can be scattered throughout your PC, and are not detected and removed by most anti-virus software? Prepare to be surprised. Read the rest of this entry »
The announcements made at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) regarding a range of new 3D home theater products raised a lot of excitement, but also raises quite a few questions. When we visited CES, several reps gave us vague responses to our questions or answers that just raised more questions. Read the rest of this entry »
We just returned from the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. 3D home theater technology was well-represented by most of the major HDTV manufacturers and was one of the major attractions for the show. Good quality 3D movies and technology for home viewing will soon be a reality, but there is both good news and bad news to report. Read the rest of this entry »
The Blu-ray Disc Association has approved a specification for 3D movies for home theaters. Agreeing to a standard is a critical step in order to avoid a battle over competing standards like we saw with Blu-ray versus HD DVD. It appears that manufacturers are committing to bring the new technology to the marketplace in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Many older sites written in PHP as well as many newer sites that evolved from older legacy code will find their sites broken when their servers are upgraded to PHP 5.3. That’s because many older PHP functions and INI directives are now formally deprecated (made obsolete) in version 5.3.
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Netflix just announced that it is offering a free instant streaming video disc for the Sony PS3 gaming console that allows Netflix members to view movies from their growing library of streaming video movies.
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The ideal laser television should be capable of delivering bright colors, large format screens and should consume very little power. If perfected and delivered to the market at a low cost, this approach has the ability to replace most existing technologies, including plasma, LCD and standard rear projection. Read the rest of this entry »
We just ran into a new Blu-Ray player problem. The problem manifests itself during the boot process where only a small window of the video is visible in the center of the screen.
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