Those enthusiastically toting their MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs to coffee shops and university libraries should take note of Adeona: a free program that helps recover laptops in the event of loss or theft.
Installation is very simple: download a file, double click an installer, and choose a password. Once the program is running, it [...]

An American court has ruled in favour of Robert Jacobsen - a man who wrote software for model trains and released it under an open source license. Ignoring the requirement in the license that derivative work credit the original and provide the original code, a commercial company made a product using the code. Under this [...]

Recently, there was controversy about a doctored photograph showing four Iranian missiles launching, whereas the original apparently showed three and one on the ground. Errol Morris discussed the images on the website of the New York Times.
Photo and video editing are nothing new, but some new software seeks to make the former much easier. It [...]

Here are two neat online climate-related calculation systems:
The first is provided by the American Environmental Protection Agency and allows for various kinds of conversions. You can work out what a volume of one greenhouse gas would be equivalent to in another gas; you can also look at a set quantity of carbon dioxide emissions as [...]

A recent Slashdot post raised a good question: Google Has All My Data – How Do I Back It Up?
I am a pretty determined Google user myself. While I have abandoned Blogger for WordPress and never much liked Picasa, I do have a pretty packed Google Account: Alerts, Analytics, Book Search, Calendar, Custom Search, Docs, [...]

The good people over at Real Climate are working on a glossary of climate related terms. A good resource in itself, it also includes links to glossaries from other organizations, including some focused on bureaucratic terminology.
My own climate related posts are arranged in an index by subject.