Writ of Mainprize

Think your privacy settings on your browser are enough to protect you from being snooped, tracked, or profiled? Think again. Apparently Adobe’s Flash plugin has its own set of places for things like cookies and other potentially personalized content. These are not removed when you empty the cache, and they are not normal browser cookies. For every browser you use, visit the Flash Player Settings page to set your security level to something better than “Hi internet, here’s my damn wallet, ID, money, and my monthly …

Keeping track of a computer’s devices and installed software is pretty tricky if you do it by hand, but Belarc has a handy-dandy tool that gives you a quick summary of just about everything about your computer! Just install a little program that you can download for free and run it. It creates a nice little web page file that summarizes everything installed on your computer. And don’t worry, nothing is transmitted to Belarc or anywhere else for that matter, your info is stored on html files …

I’ve had my Pocket PC for a few months now, and it’s time to make recommendations for new user. Advice will be mostly for users of the Axim x50.

Don’t get Windows Mobile 5.0 for older Pocket PCs. It’s too slow and unwieldy to be useful. I have no idea on the newest models, but for the Axim x50 it was heartbreakingly slow. A scary downgrade back to WM2003 made things run much better.
Get a fast CF card for memory expansion. Whenever possible, install programs on the …