Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Wow. Unbelievable. Unbelievable that Google would do this, and even more unbelievable that so little is done to stop them. Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac addresses Google’s roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it’s got your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN [...]

Have you got a little tech tyke in the family? I’ve got some neat news for you: there’s a new product out to encourage your kids to save their money: the Ekomini interactive money box. This is really nifty! Ekomini is a unique little gadget that connects to your computer via USB. The child creates [...]

Getting a new computer is so much fun! And I do reformats regularly here. Unfortunately, I am the IT person in the family…. as we have a whopping total of EIGHT computers to manage. And that doesn’t count the ones in temporary storage. I do a lot of tech help stuff, and so I have [...]

I’ve seen the government do a lot of stupid things; this is way up on the list. Library of Congress to House Entire Twitter Archive The U.S. Library of Congress, which archives many forms of media for their cultural and historical significance, has announced it will keep a digital archive of every public tweet that [...]

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This is very interesting news from Clark Howard today: Employers monitor your social networking profile Are the Facebook posts and Twitter tweets you make while away from the job immune from the prying eyes of your employer? The New York Times reports that new software called Social Sentry is ensuring everything you do online is [...]