Brigada

My Treo cell phone recently bit the dust. When I went to swap it in for something new, I took into consideration that the word on the street was that Palm was putting out to pasture its venerable “Palm OS” operating system. Confession: I didn’t want to give up on Palm. It’s just plain *fast*… [...]

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One of the best spots for checking your computer for vulnerabilities is Steve Gibson’s “Gibson Research Corporation.” It’s even better, in my opinion, than the designers of anti-virus/firewall software… because it’s totally unbiased and not self-serving. Start at: http://www.grc.com/ Follow the prompts to “ShieldsUp!”. (Note: You can look up in the upper left at the [...]

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I know, I know. Many of your friends have fled to MAC’s… and you constantly wonder if you should join them. But you can’t quite help but notice that lots of people are still left on Windows too. Sure — MAC users have multiplied by a factor of 4 times over just in the past [...]

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Unless you’ve been vacationing on Mars lately, you probably know that Google’s “Gmail” web app is the hottest webmail portal this side of the Andromeda Galaxy. With over 7 gigs of online storage space for free over an “https” secure socket, what’s not to like about it? (Sign up at any time by navigating to [...]

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Did you ever wish you could send a huge database or spreadsheet to an email recipient, but you felt guilty because you would be bombing out his/her email account with a mongo file? And maybe you don’t have an FTP site (or maybe you don’t even care to learn what one is?). Well there’s an [...]

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I just returned tonight from a trip to the Middle East, primarily in a country that filters Internet access through a national proxy. None of the hotel rooms (that I stayed in) had in-room Internet… so it was Internet cafes for me in each stop. You’ve heard us say before on Brigada — the only [...]

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Registrations are open for the second ICCM-Asia conference. This conference is for those involved in Information Technology and cross-cultural work in Asia, both nationals and expatriates. It will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, October 27-30, 2008. The keynote speaker has experience in online pastor training, internet cafes and IE in Asia. As well as [...]

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When we tried the switch (to HTML formatted email), the outcry was pronounced. And no wonder. Of the 1,173,109,925 Internet subscribers at the end of 2007, only 349,980,000 were said to connect via broadband. That means that the vast majority of the world is still looking at the Internet through a small pipe (dial-up).Sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_broadband_usersandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users(this last [...]

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If you run Windows XP, Windows 2000, or good ole NT, you can clock your network speed for free by picking up the QCheck tool athttp://www.ixiacom.com/products/display?skey=qcheckIt’s cool, it’s fun, and it’s efficient — and it installs no spyware on your system.

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