Who Have You Given Access to Your Information?

We are already so into The Matrix, and nobody seems to much mind–yet! I really get annoyed at the enormous extent to which Google, Twitter, and Facebook (especially) track everything we do online, build online profiles about us (including our current mood, reading and writing grade levels–I’m not kidding), and sell that information to marketing. They embed cookies in your… Continue reading

New HD Cursors in OS 10.7

Well, it’s about time! At some point, presumably when I upgraded to 10.7, Apple upgraded their enlarged cursors. I have two very large monitors, and I frequently can’t find my cursor. It gets lost! It’s so small on the screen, I must wiggle it all over the place trying to locate it. As a solution to this problem, I use… Continue reading