Posts Tagged as ‘online’

March 23, 2010

Passover Contracts Online (selling “chametz” via the web)

During the 8 days of the Passover festival it is forbidden for a Jew to have any “chametz” (refers to bread, grains and leavened products that are not consumed during Passover) in their possession.  We throw lots of stuff away, clean like germaphobes with OCD, and seal any cabinets in the kitchen with masking tape [...]

December 28, 2009

The Death of “Social Media” (“Augmented Reality” is Next)

Many sites have been predicting the death of the term “social media” as a trend to watch in 2010.  Adam Singer on Future Buzz has a great post about how the genericizing of the term “social media” as a buzz word in 2009 and 2010 will dilute its meaning of any substance so that eventually [...]

December 8, 2009

Chrome Browser Now on Mac: A Photo Journal

It has been a long wait for Chrome on the Mac, and today it is finally here.  My reaction when I saw the post on Mashable?  YES, YES, YESSSSS!!!!! (but whispered b/c the kids are sleeping).   As the proud new parent of the Chrome browser, here is a photo journal of this exciting day:

April 2, 2009

Fear the Conficker Worm

“I saw it on 60-minutes,” Mom said.  “They said don’t go online b/c of this virus.” “Worm,” I said.  “What?” she asked. “It’s a worm, not a virus,” I said.  N00B Alert: worm v. virus (from the Big W)  A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program. It uses a network to send copies of [...]