Entries for the ‘Technology’ Category

How to be IT

In the last few months I’ve been making a few more professional decisions.  I’m nowhere near done university yet I’ve been so anxious to learn everything I possibly can about my chosen field of Computer Science that I have less than a year left in my major yet I’m still close to two years away [...]

Malware Removal

Antivirus 360 is one of the dirtiest little malware applications I’ve had the pleasure of coming across lately. I’ve seen this particular virus popping up quite often lately, and I’ve had first hand experience removing it from several computers, so I figured I’d post my 4 step guide to removing Antivirus 360 in under 10 minutes.

Big Brother

Amazon just went nuclear on the public API front, making over a terrabyte worth of information available to developers through a searchable API rivaling Google. Everything from US census information and labour statistics to the entire English section of Wikipedia in machine readable format.

Open Source Software

In all honesty open source software is one of the best things to come from the internet community and has made leaps and bounds in all directions. Being able to load up a computer or a website with high quality software with excellent support and not pay a penny has it’s advantages when you’re on a student’s budget, but surely this cost savings must be something that business can take advantage of too.