Author: Vince Kimball

Flash now works just like VB. In the past few years I have made a few attempts to learn Flash, but the timeline-focused authoring interface always felt akward to me. In an effort to reach out to developers, Macromedia is releasing a brand new version of the Flash MX authoring environment for developers. Flash now works just… Continue reading Flash now works just like VB

Making TiVo wireless isn't so easy. Illuminating write-up of the trials and tribulations one TiVo owner experienced when trying to add WiFi to his Series 2 TiVo so that it could update itself over the Internet without having to run an Ethernet cable from the box to the router. It took several different USB WiFi… Continue reading Making TiVo wireless isn't so easy

TechNews.com part of the Washington Post – Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design . Between the Blaster worm and the Sobig virus, it's been a long two weeks for Windows users. But nobody with a Mac or a Linux PC has had to lose a moment of sleep over these outbreaks — just like in earlier… Continue reading TechNews.com

Business News from Wired News – BlackBerry Reveals Bank's Secrets. When a computer consultant buys a used wireless pager — once the property of a former Morgan Stanley executive — on eBay, he ends up with an unexpected bonus: a trove of sensitive corporate data. [ … ] After popping a battery into the BlackBerry's… Continue reading Wired News

Always On – Free Certificates! Doesn't everyone have a right to privacy? If you've ever built a Website that collects credit card or personal information, then you understand the importance of securing that communication with a digital certificate. If you work for a large corporation that is selling their catalog items online, no problem. Just fork over… Continue reading Free Certificates! Doesn't everyone have a right to privacy?

Working Knowledge, MA –HBS Working Knowledge: Marketing: Should You Sell Your Privacy? Regulation won't stop privacy invasion, says HBS professor John Deighton. What will? What if companies paid us to use our identity? A market approach to privacy problems. It's a startling idea: Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data miners, and… Continue reading HBS Working Knowledge: Marketing: Should You Sell Your Privacy?

Start Your (Search) Engines. Members of the New York City Company of Friends group recently exchanged a series of emails about new search engines they use. Here are their recommendations: Vivisimo: Using a “clustering engine,” the service automatically organizes and categorizes similar search results… [Fast Company Now]

Chris Lydon interviews James Gleick on his biography of Sir Isaac Newton. “Almost everything we know about apples and moons in motion and at rest, about time, space, gravity, inertia, differential and integral calculus, occurred to Isaac Newton in his early twenties, working in isolation through the London plague years of 1665 and 1666.” [Scripting… Continue reading

Forbes: The Wonderful World Of Wirelessness. In this fifth annual E-Gang survey, profiling unsung heroes of high tech, FORBES looks at five people helping foster the next phase of the wireless revolution. They're toppling some of the biggest obstacles to a Wireless Everywhere world… [Tomalak's Realm]

French Winemakers Harvest a Hot Vintage. The blazingly hot summer may leave a positive legacy behind vineyards are hauling in their most promising crop in years. By Craig S. Smith. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]