EDIT 4/1/2009:
Conficker Working Group is a “cabal” of security industry companies who came together to battle the Conficker pest.
The Conficker Working Group has an excellent list of free Conficker detect and removal tools: Find it here.
EDIT 3/31/2009:Great piece from Channel Insider about all the crazy hype of the Conficker worm:
… if you believe [...]

Trend Micro has some good information on all these “Scan your computer now!” pop-ups that (ahem) pop up all the time when surfing the Internet.
Here is the simple advice: Ignore! Close the pop-up, and move along…nothing to see here…
These sites will often install malware (malicious software), Trojan horses, and viruses on your computer. Yes, it [...]

Evernote is one of my favorite apps out there. It is just a great place to keep notes and documents of all kinds.
A while back they went to a web-based system which I wasn’t too fond of at first, but I have to say now my reservations were unfounded. The web version is simply a [...]

This will be really good news: As the price of flash-memory based hard drives continues to drop, we’ll start to see them at larger sizes in regular business laptops.
Known as “SSD”, for Solid-State Drive (meaning no moving parts), flash-memory based hard drives are already pretty common in “netbooks” - very small laptops used for simpler [...]

Here is another reason why you don’t want to use the same password for everything…
There was a document out on scribd.com, a document sharing site, that listed 700 (or 8000, depending on how you read the article) usernames and passwords for Comcast Internet and email accounts. According to the NY Times Technology section, there were [...]

Cool or creepy?
I vote for cool…
A Finnish man, Jerry Jalava, lost a finger in a motorcycle accident. Being the computer guy that he is, he fashioned a prosthetic finger into a USB drive.
Yup - he’s got is own 2GB flash drive with him at all times. I mean, really with him. At all times.
Like I [...]

OpenWith.org is a great site that has a list of free programs that will open any type of file.
Need to open an .flv file? Just put that in the search (flv) and it will take you directly to information about flv files: It is flash video, and you can open a flv file with VLC [...]

I have to admit, I have never really done this…taking a truly “tech free” vacation. No Internet, no cell phone, nuttin’.
I’ve gone very light on occaision - no laptop, just my phone - but that probably doesn’t really count. Being as I have BlackBerry, I get a pretty full Internet experience on that if [...]