February 14th, 2002
Bill Gates, that paragon of love, has suggested that people show their affection for each other this Valentine's Day by purchasing Microsoft software. Which, thinking about it, makes sense. After all, this is the company whose applications enabled the wonderful "I Love You" virus a couple of years ago. Nothing says "undying love" like wiping out your hard drive.—Continue reading....
February 13th, 2002
Apple's relationship with the mainstream press has always been one of love-to-hate: on the one hand, Apple is the underdog to Microsoft's homogeny, and a media darling, the company who creates stunningly-designed, easy-to-use computers. On the other, they're an arrogant, marginalized, ready-to-fold business with a sub-five-percent marketshare, which cares more about form than function; and the press revels in painting Apple in a bad light.—Continue reading....
February 12th, 2002
You've heard the cliché: there are two types of businesses in this world, those that have lost data, and those that will. When 30 gigs of valuable corporate information pull a Houdini and you don't have current backups, there is an option besides chaining yourself into a vat of water: a data recovery service.—Continue reading....
February 1st, 2002
Entourage (Microsoft's email app that comes with Office v.X for Mac OS X) has some great features. The seemingly unlimited criteria and actions for rules (filters) makes managing vast quantities of email a breeze. Other features I particularly appreciate are the ability to link messages to contacts automatically, and to filter messages based on categories in your address book (for example, I keep email addresses I accept direct mail to in a category called Direct Mail OK, and with one filter I can move them into a single mailbox. Much better than creating dozens of individual rules).—Continue reading....
