Posted in News on Jan 5th, 2008
Hello Everyone!
Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year and to let you know that a brand new episode of the GTP is on the way.
I know it has been a very long time since the last edition of the show, and I apologize for the delay. As you may know I work [...]
Posted in News on Jun 12th, 2007
You may recall on one of the episodes of the GTP I mentioned Google’s Picasa photo album software. For those of you who take a lot of digital photos, Picasa is a free application that helps you organize all those pictures that are currently sitting in odd folders all over your hard drive. [...]
Posted in News on Jun 9th, 2007
Just wanted to let everyone know that the fine folks at Internet Genealogy magazine have included an article I wrote on Google Alerts in the latest issue.
Enjoy!
Posted in News on May 30th, 2007
There is a new software update available from Apple, but it affects both Windows and Mac users since the update is for iTunes and QuickTime.
The update addresses a couple of security issues in QuickTime, but also updates iTunes to version 7.2 (QuickTime version is 7.1.6 after the update). You can find out the specifics [...]
Posted in News on May 24th, 2007
Apple has released a security update for the Mac OS X operating system. Update #2007-005 addresses a bunch of security issues in he operating system, iChat and VPN; it can be downloaded from:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate20070051039client.html
Don’t forget to run the disk utility and verify/repair permissions before and after you run the update.
In episode 10 of the GTP I mentioned how Google Web History can be extended to save all of your Web browsing activity, which in turn could help you in your research.
But what if you don’t want your Web history saved?
If for any reason you don’t want Google to save your Web History (Google searches [...]
Posted in News on May 9th, 2007
I know it’s been ages since I got an edition of the podcast out, but finals for this semester are tomorrow (5/10/2007) and I will be able to get Episode 10 out on Monday. I also hope to get a few additional episodes out before the Summer semester begins.
Talk to you soon!
Posted in News on May 9th, 2007
For the Windows users among you Microsoft has released another round of security updates for May. This group includes 7 critical updates that address issues in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office among others. You can get all the latest updates from http://update.microsoft.com.
If you’re a Mac user the fine folks at Redmond may have [...]
Posted in News on Apr 19th, 2007
From time to time we may find ourselves online so long that we can easily forget which Web site has some information that we want to go back and check. Awhile back I wrote an article about Amazon’s A9 Web service that you could use to track your Web surfing, but alas, A9 faded [...]
Posted in News on Apr 19th, 2007
Apple has released Security Update 2007-004, so you should make sure you run software update to get it installed on your system.
The update is 16.7MB in size and corrects 25 security issues in Mac OS X. You can download and install the update by running Software Update or downloading it from the Apple Support [...]
