Gozzie launches Maclord’s Blog

Yet another blog featuring tips and tricks about Macs, OS X, and cross-platform working and the iPhone. Sounds like another “me, too” blog, right?
Well, hopefully, the Maclord’s Blog will create an otherwise impression soon enough – with some truly extraordinary stories like:
Could you imagine, for example, that you could corrupt an iPod with exported calendar [...]

Facebook Shocker: New Privacy Controls Sort of Naive

Chris Soghoian reports on Facebook’s new privacy controls, which feature the ability to classify what kinds of people can view particular elements of their profiles.

“This sounds like a great idea, and should be a significant benefit to those students who find that their Facebook-advertised parties were busted by police who found out about the events through the social-networking site.

“The primary problem is that Facebook has no way of determining what someone’s university status is. The company is only able to verify that the user has a valid .edu e-mail address, which could mean that the person is a student, staff member, professor, or alumni. As a result, Facebook asks users to self-report this information.

Domain Name Service (DNS) – What is DNS?

The Internet system that translates human-understandable hostnames (like www.ozarweb.com) into computer-understandable IP addresses (like 85.108.12.214) and back again.
Think of it as the Internet phonebook.

Del.icio.us or Not

I resisted not to sign up with a del.icio.us account for a loooong time, but in the end (and that is about a couple of days ago) I decided that I should keep up with the trends since I’m a blogger getting deep in the rabbit hole day by day.
So I did. At first I [...]