Al's Blog-o-Sphere

I had to laugh when I read this in in an article from the WSJ about privacy with smart phone apps:

Apps have been around for years, but burst into prominence when Apple opened its App Store in July 2008. Today, the App Store boasts more than 300,000 programs.

Gee, that explains so much. Like why that app I wrote in 1972 never took off… and I thought it was just because cell phones didn’t exist yet. Continue Reading…

I just read an interesting article about a survey done by the anti-virus company Avira.

They said that their survey shows that 25% of users disable their anti virus software because they felt that the programs were making their computers run slowly.

They also found that 3 out of 5 computer users have tried multiple security products within the last year, further showing their dissatisfaction with the product they had been using.

Their conclusion is that anti virus security programs should be written to have minimal impact on the computers performance or else users won’t use them. I certainly agree and don’t dispute that conclusion, but let’s look at some reasons why users might abandon their current anti-virus program and go looking for another. Continue Reading…

Lookout Rudolph, is that Sarah Palin with a gun?

I didn’t think it would be hard to find 12 bad Christmas songs, but I didn’t think it would be this easy, either.