Another day of fun in technology with Jim Britt and myself. Today we hit a bunch of great topics, programs and apps. Help in traffic, speed traps, the Federal Reserve site getting hacked and more…even the end of life as we know it. To find out all of the exciting news (well, OK, fun too) check out the podcast from today.
The Federal Reserve has acknowledged that an outside party gained access to its website and a limited amount of data, raising questions about the central bank’s cyber-security measures.
"The Federal Reserve System is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product," a Federal Reserve spokesman said in a statement.
"The exposure was fixed shortly after discovery and is no longer an issue," the spokesman said. "This incident did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve System."
Microsoft’s SkyDrive now stores 1B documents
Computerworld – Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud storage service now has one billion Office documents stored in it, the company announced today.
While a billion may seem like a lot, the most popular consumer cloud storage service, Dropbox, has more than 100,000,000 users. According to the company’s information site, users save one billion files to Dropbox every 24 hours.
Windows 8 ekes out 2.2 percent market share
Windows 8 may not be setting the PC landscape on fire, but at least it’s heating up some gains in market share.
The latest flavor of Windows scored a market share of 2.26 percent in January, as recorded by Web tracker Net Applications. That showed a slow but steady rise from 1.72 percent in December and 1.09 percent in November.
- Windows 7 – 44.4%
- Windows XP – 39.5%
- Vista – 5.24%
- Windows 8 – 2.26%
- Mac OS X 10.6 – 2%
- Mac OS X 10.7 – 1.96%
Do you live in a drone zone?
What’s that buzzing through the sky? It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… a drone aircraft? If you live in one of 81 cities across the US, you might be seeing drone aircraft flying overhead much more before long. The FAA has just released an updated version of the drone application list, as requested under a Freedom of Information Act action from the EFF. Is your hometown on it?
(This app can be found on Google Play from your Android phone,
tablet or viewed on your PC from the link below.)
Waze
Waze is a fun, community-based traffic & navigation app, 30 million strong. Join forces with other drivers nearby to outsmart traffic, save time & gas money, and improve everyone’s daily commute.
With community-generated real-time traffic, you’ll always get the best route to your destination. By simply driving around with Waze open, you’re already contributing tons real-time traffic & road info to your local driving community. You can also actively report accidents, hazards, police and other events you see on the road, and get road alerts coming up on your route too. Find the cheapest gas station along your route with community-shared gas prices.
(You can find this Firefox addon and all the others at addons.mozilla.org
or by click the orange Firefox tab, then "add-ons"
or finally if you use the menu toolbar choose Tools/Add-ons.)
For all of you ePub book readers out there you can now put your book on your PC and use EPUBReader to read it in Firefox. It will link your books marks between Firefox on different PC (if you sync them). However, it will not lync them to your eBook reader.
With EPUBReader you can read ePub files just in Firefox. No additional software needed!
Have a great day surfing the net, downloading new addons for Firefox and trying out Wave on your Smart Phones. See you next time and do not forget to visit DoubleClicks.info and WSVAOnline.com for more info and good information.
Thanks!
Ron
