Thursday, August 22, 2002

Setting a trap for laptop thieves. A spate of publicity over misplaced government laptops has people hopping mad. A solution? PC makers are offering tracking software with new computers. [CNET News.com] The article has nice things to say about Absolute Software's CompuTrace Plus. I'm currently working on the Mac version. 9:13:37 PM    Comments []

SJ Merc interviews Janis Ian. "She credits Napster and its progeny with sparking renewed interest in her music, at a time when she can't be heard on contemporary-hit-obsessed radio stations. And she says her decision to offer free music downloads had done the opposite of what the industry predicts it would do: It caused a 300 percent spike in merchandise sales." [Scripting News] 2:18:21 PM    Comments []

Archiving Email with Eudora. Eudora may not be the prettiest or most user-friendly email client, but it has a few very significant advantages: it can handle a large amount of email, since it uses plain text to store email it can't suffer database corruption, and it can search much faster than anything else. Here's how you can take advantage of it for archiving your email. [MacMegasite] 2:07:35 PM    Comments []