ProcessID Home Page

"ProcessID.com is a website dedicated to help computer users keep their computer running free of parasites like spyware, viruses and Trojan horses. " Lists commonly-found process names and helps you figure out if they're okay.

Free Nationwide Wireless Internet Access?

Web inventor warns of 'dark' net

"The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said. "

Privacy worries over web's future

"The next phase of the web could face 'big privacy' issues, a senior UK academic has warned. "

Warning from Apple: don't put our laptops on your lap

The Eternal Value of Privacy

How to respond to "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?".

Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before

"Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest."

Scotland to Keep Detailed Records On All Kids

"But don't worry, lads. It's all for your protection."

Google to Distribute Online Video Ads

"For instance, a news story about housing might prompt Google to display an ad for real estate agents."

20 FAQs about Windows Vista

The Intelligent Scarecrow fights back against birds

Microsoft GroupShot

"Microsoft GroupShot enables you to combine multiple photos of the same scene and create a composite image, that eliminates or exchanges parts of the original photos with parts of a nearly identical shot from the same sequence. "

MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found

"The exploit arrives as an ordinary Microsoft Word document attachment to an e-mail and drops a backdoor with rootkit features when the document is opened and the previously unknown vulnerability is triggered. "

Microsoft reveals Vista checklist

"Microsoft has revealed how powerful computers must be to run Vista - the new version of its Windows operating system. "

Physics Warning Labels

example: "Handle with Extreme Care: This Product Contains Minute Electrically Charged Particles Moving at Velocities in Excess of Five Hundred Million Miles per Hour."

Epson Stops E-Tailers From Selling Off-Brand Ink Cartridges

Apple rival 'tries to ban iPods'

"Digital music player maker Creative Technology has asked a US court to ban Apple from selling or marketing its iconic iPods in the US. "

Virtual Reality with 100 Million Pixels

One step closer to the holodeck.

Skype is Free in US and Canada

Free computer-to-phone calls for the rest of the year.

Google Cheat Sheets

"This two page Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas."

Google Cheat Sheets

"This two page Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas."

Electronic Big Brother

"A report from a non-profit privacy watchdog organization offers the exact opposite conclusion: technology is making it easier and easier for the government to spy on its citizens, and laws to protect individual privacy are very outdated. "

The NSA Knows Who You've Called

Goodby, Privacy! Say hello to Civil Rights when you get there!

Tech Workers of the World Unite?

"The rich get richer, the shareholder is valued more than the employee, jobs are eliminated in the name of bottom-line efficiency (remember when they called firing people 'right-sizing'?) and the gulf between the rich and the working class grows wider every year. "

Google Choking on Spam Sites

"'Those machines are full,' he said. 'We have a huge machine crisis.'"

UN Broadcasting Treaty May Restrict Speech

"It is dangerous and inappropriate for an unelected international treaty body to undertake the task of creating entirely new rights, which currently exist in no national law, such as webcasting rights and anti-circumvention laws related to broadcasting. "

The Future of the Internet

"What if I-95 announced an exclusive deal with General Motors to provide a special "rush-hour" lane for GM cars only?"

Spam Gets Personal

"Two researchers demonstrate how much more effective spam could become if its authors used basic data-mining to personalize their messages. " Then those two researchers were slapped silly by the rest of us.