http://www.tech-faq.com/blog News and Views from The Tech FAQ Team Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:42:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Several people on my MSN contact list have been unknowingly spamming me with messages about the acai berry. The spam messages look like this: Are you finally ready to lose some weight with no effort, well I am living proof that those acai berry pills everyone is talking about actually work, ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/acai-berry-spam-via-msn.html Senator Democrats are attempting to pass legislation which will give President Obama the authority to shut down the Internet and seize private networks. On CNET News, Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), stated "As soon as you're saying that the federal government is going ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/obama-seeks-power-to-shut-down-the-internet.html Late last year it became clear to us that The Tech FAQ was technologically out-of-date and that continuing to invest in the current home-grown CMS was a strategy for long-term failure. I made a radical decision to begin development on a completely new platform and to roll out a significantly enhanced ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/help-beta-test-tech-faq-20.html Windows Vista was, from an objective standpoint, a major flop. This isn't a new experience for Microsoft.  Windows ME was a terrible disaster which cost Microsoft tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, years of development time, and an incredible amount of public embarrassment.  It was unofficially renamed "Windows Mistake Edition." When ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/windows-7-forum.html The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently filed an emergency motion with the Newton District Court in Boston on behalf of a Boston College Student who was accused of criminal wrong-doing and had all of his computer and electronic equipment seized. The warrant was issued based upon the "evidence" that the student ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/boston-college-ability-to-use-a-command-line-is-a-sign-of-criminal-activity.html I just ran a search on Google, and oh, all the results were “harmful!” For the first time in its recent history, the most popular search engine in the world malfunctioned. In what could be a temporary delight for Microsoft and Yahoo, users Googling for anything were warned about each result, ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/google-hacked.html Given the plethora of choices for mobile phones, tech-savvy consumers often love to upgrade to the latest on the market. So what should be done about the old pieces that might uselessly occupy the shelf? Well, recycling your old phone will not only fetch reasonable money, but is an environment ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/recycle-your-old-phone-make-some-money-and-save-the-environment-too.html SourceForge and Freshmeat are both great web sites for finding obscure open source software packages. Both are very old and authoritative web sites; Freshmeat was started in March of 1998 and SourceForge came along in August of 1999. SourceForge has a larger database of projects to search, which is a major advantage.  ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/sourceforge-vs-freshmeat.html Evil Science has just published Internet Explorer vs Firefox vs Opera vs Chrome vs Safari, which contains the results of an extensive competitive speed test between five popular web browsers. The author is an Opera user who discovered that his favorite browser has slipped to the #2 spot for performance. The author ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/fastest-web-browser-google-chrome.html Have you ever been interested in how a web site like The Tech FAQ gets built and promoted? Now you have an opportunity to find out. The creator of The Tech FAQ has recently started a forum for webmasters where he shares the knowledge he gained while building and promoting this ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/new-webmaster-forum.html