Subscriber Richard Fuller wrote from New Zealand (not Australia, as I mistakenly wrote in an earlier article) to ask about a fairly common problem. Most web sites have some JavaScript, whether it’s used for interactivity, automatic page updating (e.g., quibids.com updating with every bid that anyone makes), as part of their advertizing, etc. Our web [...]
Google’s New Privacy Policy — Read it and Weep
Google announced that it is consolidating all of its myriad privacy policies (roughly one per service that Google offers) into one over-arching privacy policy. They’re written it at an easy to understand level, too. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s scary. I’m not sure that it really says anything new, but [...]
Solving Wireless Computer Networking Problems
I received an email recently from a subscriber who was having problems with his wireless networking from his computer, but his wife’s computer was working fine. Unfortunately, that’s all too often the type of problem that happens with wireless networking. When it works, it works nicely. When it doesn’t work, figuring out what’s going wrong [...]
Thunderbird Feedback from Subscribers
Subscriber Keith C wrote from Australia to comment on my Thunderbird 8.0 article recently: This latest Thunderbird (8.0) is a truly solid release. I used to notice some issues with earlier versions similar to what your article mentions Terry eg errors when sorting mail. Nothing like that since, rock solid Mozilla stability. Thunderbird is a [...]
New Version of Thunderbird Email Program for Windows
As many of my readers are aware, I switched from Eudora Open Source Edition to Thunderbird recently. My particular issues were that Eudora OSE was based on Thunderbird, but a version well over a year old, while there had been a number of updates to Thunderbird during that time. Thunderbird had a minor update shortly [...]
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