The Non-Profit Tech Guru

I crossed paths with a couple of these babies last week – definitely some interesting stuff. Here’s another installment of the good, the bad and the ugly.
Good:
1. The much ballyhooed multi-tasking. Switching apps is a breeze and you are right where you left off when you come back. Come on, Apple!
2. A real keyboard – [...]

Fed’s RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon
This is funny, because I immediately knew what it meant, making me extremely rare (and geeky). Let’s unpack it a little.

Fed – the federal government
RFID – Radio Frequency Identification – a small embedded computer chip that contains information that can be scanned by a multitude of electronic equipment
-iocy – [...]

This is one sweet ride – and you can plug it in to any electrical outlet. 300 miles on a charge and 0-60 in 5.6 seconds – Yee Haw! 5 adults + 2 kids! 17″ Infotainment TouchScreen! What the hell is that!? I have no idea!
Downsides – this baby runs $50 Grand and won’t be [...]

Well it was bound to happen – Google’s gMail, Calendar, Docs and Talk that started out in Beta five years ago are no longer… They’re ready for the enterprise!
Actually, I have been using them with clients for years, so I think they were ready before now. I guess Google finally got the message that selling [...]

There is an article in the Apple Insider this morning about new features in the forthcoming Snow Leopard Server that allow secure remote access to messaging etc. from the iPhone. They go on to do a cost comparison to show that for 100 users, you can buy Apple’s server product and spend less than $4000, [...]

Ok, not really weaponized, but the DOD has them in widespread deployment around the world. Is it so soldiers can rock out at a moment’s notice? NO! These babies are loaded with applications that allow soldiers to communicate in ways that were impossible 5 years ago, and required 6 different custom built-military grade (read: exhorbitantly [...]

Well, this one’s for all the Mac folks out there who think that they are immune to the kind of virus infections that routinely plague the PC world.
It turns out that some pirated versions of Mac software available for download on the internet contained a trojan that joins your happy little mac to a global [...]

McAfee just commissioned as study on the energy cost of spam – and it’s clear that the main energy drain from spam comes from user intervention. Every time a piece of spam gets to a person’s mailbox, it needs to be dealt with.
A resounding endorsement for server side filtering I feel… On a related note, [...]

So says The Onion:
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

I almost died laughing….
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/shaq_terrified_of_phoenix_suns