No, you don't have to confess here if you're guilty of "Wi-Fi Tapping," piggybacking, or freeloading someone else's Internet connection, but chances are, you're not alone if you have. We've already talked about the simple fact that using an Internet connection that's not yours without the owner's consent is illegal and you can get arrested and fined for it. It's happened. What

Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's Quality Assurance leader, announced a preview of the Spread Firefox 2 site that will be the future home to all Firefox enthusiasts out there. The new site is still based on Drupal, which offers a powerful and secure platform for them to share and mange their content on.

If my memory serves me correctly the current Spread Firefox site hasn't

It's hard to believe it, but the #1 most influential reviewer on Amazon who has submitted over 5,000 reviews to the site doesn't even have an Internet connection in his home! His name is Peter Harris - he's 56 from Leicester, UK, and over 50,000 people have seen his reviews. He started writing reviews when he lost his job in the IT field and says that his reviews are written from home, but he

Many of you have probably heard of the Google Feedfetcher before if you're a FeedBurner publisher. It is what Google uses to go and crawl RSS feeds for people subscribed to them using Google IG, Google Reader, and any other place Google displays feeds. Each time Google goes to fetch a feed it supplies the number of subscribers so that publishers know how many of their feed readers are using Google's services.

The

A recent poll conducted by the New York Times points out how important messaging is in the lives of teens and young adults. Both instant messaging and text messaging have become so popular that teenagers are extremely comfortable with written communication and not so comfortable with verbal face-to-face communication. When I say "written communication," I don't mean proper written communication.  Given the huge dictionary of messaging slang's and acronyms, conversations tend to look more

Apple released a pretty big update to the Safari 3 Beta browser for Windows this morning. One of the most notable additions is the spelling and grammar checking, which can be done inline if you so desire. To have Safari check the spelling while you type just right-click in a text box, go to Spelling and Grammar, and then tick the Check Spelling While

It's Ryan's Birthday today and knowing how much he dis-likes attention on his birthday, I thought the only appropriate thing to do was, well.... give him attention! It's more fun that way. :) So Happy Birthday Ryan!