A quick tip tonight. For a while, Google has allowed the use of SSL with its search product by manually visiting https://encrypted.google.com but this has not been widely advertised in the past. However, it seems for residents in the USA that this is now becoming the default search page when people are visiting the regular …
Category: Legal
Jan 29 2011
Boydo’s Tech Talk – The First Year
Perhaps hard to believe but the blog has been up and running for a full year and many things have happened over the course of the last twelve months. At times, it has been a bit of a challenge to do a daily entry particularly with the demands of full time work as well as …
Jan 09 2011
Spot Interesting Software License Agreement Clauses with EULAlyzer
Just a quick tip for tonight. Looking at those end user license agreements (or EULAs) every time you install a new piece of software can be very time consuming exercise. Of course, EULAs are there for a reason but the fact that they can run into thousands of words in length its not surprising that …
Dec 31 2010
Amazon: Lend a Friend an eBook
For those of you that use the Amazon Kindle platform or are in the market for a new eBook reader and have yet to make up your mind then this development may pique your interest. In a nutshell, one Amazon Kindle user can lend out a book to another Amazon Kindle user for a period …
Dec 24 2010
Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Office Genuine Advantage
In news that largely went under the radar, Microsoft has quietly disabled the use of Office Genuine Advantage in its Microsoft Office products in the last round of updates. In a nutshell, OGA provided a mechanism to verify the legitimacy of a software installation as a prerequisite step prior to allowing various add-ons for Microsoft …
Dec 10 2010
R18+ Computer Games Classification – Its Time Will Come
The avid gamers amongst us would have been closely following the news today regarding the R18+ classification for computer games and the subsequent postponement of a decision until 2011. I can only imagine that many people are disappointed that there wasn’t a definitive result but by the same token it does mean that it is …
Dec 06 2010
Don’t Be A Scrooge With Extended Warranties
Even when it isn’t Christmas, shoppers are always on the lookout for a bargain which usually comes in the form of sales be it for the purposes of stocktaking, liquidation or closing down (rug industry anyone?) amongst others. You might also get special deals with store cards such as interest free arrangements (like David Jones) …
Nov 29 2010
The NAB Saga – Were You Affected?
These days, many people reckon the banks are giving the regular person a raw deal with bank fees and mortgage interest rates all while record profits are being raked in. That aside, people have an expectation to be able to access their money at a time and place convenient to them. The wife and I …
Nov 28 2010
SlySoft Discontinuing Lifetime Upgrades
It seems that many good things come to an end far sooner than we would expect or would hope. SlySoft, the creator of such software including CloneCD, CloneDVD and AnyDVD will be ceasing sales of software including free lifetime upgrades for software from 1 January 2011. Whilst this is disappointing news, this does mean you …
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