Category: Tech News

Where have all the tab sites gone? Anyone with a battered six-string and a PC can now satiate their need for material to play simply by viewing tablatures, songs “tabbed” in an easy-to-read format for playback on a guitar, on many popular websites. But recently many of the web’s more popular tab sites are beginning… Continue reading The Decline of the Online Tablature Sites

Don’t tell your cell phone any secrets. It might not keep them. Second-hand phones purchased over the Internet surrendered credit card numbers and bank account passwords, business secrets and even evidence of adultery. One married man’s girlfriend sent a text message to his cell phone: His wife was getting suspicious. Perhaps they should cool it… Continue reading Don’t keep secrets on a cell phone!

The latest entrant to the crowded Internet browser market is the appropriately named Browzar, a tool specifically designed to protect users’ privacy by not retaining details of the Web sites they’ve searched. Most Web browsers like Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer automatically save users’ searches in Internet caches and histories. Users do have the option of… Continue reading Web Browser Leaves No Footprints

People who want to open email from patent attorney Andrew Currier have to know the drill. First, they must answer a predetermined question, such as “Where did we first meet?” If they answer correctly, they will then be allowed to view the contents of the email — but they can’t alter it or forward it… Continue reading This Email Will Self-Destruct

Remember that 14-year-old girl who is suing her friend over a missing iPod? An anonymous kind soul took it upon herself to buy Shannon Derrik a new iPod Nano, a pink case and a $50 iTunes gift card — but Melanie McCarthy, Derrik’s mother, who filed the lawsuit on her daughter’s behalf, is refusing the… Continue reading Mom rejects donated iPod, proceeding with lawsuit