Stephen Cobb's Personal Blog

If you are into hardware and software experimentation you might have noticed, with some amazement, that 2012 is the year of DEFCON 20. That...

I got an Amazon Kindle Fire from my wife for Christmas and I'm a bit worried about the effect on the Internet. I should explain that I g...

I just updated this post with a Mavericks screenshot, but the basic point holds true for the past few versions of OS X: the Spotlight search...

What does copyright infringement have to do with scraping oil from the bottom of a barrel and an acronym soup like SOPA, PIPA, DNS and DNSSE...

As some of you know, I hit the ground running when I landed in San Diego at the beginning of September, happy to be back in California, wres...

This is a quick tip for anyone looking to buy a new iPhone or other smartphone this holiday season: Don't buy in California, Massachuset...

The golden age of unlimited Internet is over, capped usage is now the norm. Alas for uncapped bandwidth, uncapped bandwidth is no more, and ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed a strategy for revamping that government subsidy program to help depl...

So what happened to September? Not a single September post on the Stephen Cobb Blog? That's right, I was busy settling into my new job h...

This tip is for the relatively small number of people who are running Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and cannot seem to change the default se...