I was reading TechCrunch this morning as I do every morning and noticed a post about a new Firefox add-on called “Zemanta“. It turns out that this is actually a useful add-on, in fact so useful that I’ve decided to write a short blurb about it, partly because it’s interesting and partly because I [...]

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A pretty cool video about some Linux history. Well done!

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Steve Gibson from Gibson Research Corporation ran several benchmark tests against TrueCrypt 5 and has a theory that Windows might actually run faster with whole disk encryption than without. Recently on Security Now episode #133 Steve explains to Leo Laporte what he did, here is an excerpt from the podcast:
Steve: I don’t know. It’s [...]

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2007 Best Game Design
Portal (Valve)
Kim Swift, Realm Lovejoy, Paul Graham
2007 Best Visual Art
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
Scott Sinclair, Shawn Robertson, Andrew James
2007 Best Technology
Crysis (Crytek/Electronic Arts)
Cevat Yerli, Douglas Binks, Timur Davidenko, Martin Mittring
2007 Best Writing
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
Ken Levine, Emily Ridgway, Joe McDonagh, Susan O’Connor
2007 Best Audio
BioShock (2K Boston/2K [...]

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I just came across an article on Lifehacker which mentions ways that you can salvage your old laptop. Often times people purchase a new laptop or desktop machine, and the old laptop gets boxed up or given away. Suggestions from the article include: create a no-monitor low-power spare system, convert it to a home [...]

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It’s not surprising that some frightening new security exploits came out of the Black Hat conference in Washington DC this week. One exploit in particular caught my eye because it relates to something I carry around in my wallet, my American Express credit card.
A guy named Adam Laurie who is considered an expert [...]

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Just two days ago I wrote about penetration testing using Firefox extensions. Well it turns out there’s another interesting security auditing tool that has just been released called Goolag Scanner, which essentially uses the Google search engine to attempt to “Google Hack” into your site. The results of the scan do not harm [...]

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Johan Johansen has released doubleTwist which aims to make it much easier to transition to a DRM free music collection, among other things (your encouraged to visit his blog for more information).
Information about doubleTwist according to Johan’s blog: nanocr.eu:
“After a lot of hard work, we’ve finally released doubleTwist desktop. The goal of doubleTwist is to [...]

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The Everex CloudBook is a subnotebook that weighs only 2 pounds and can hold a charge for up to 5 hours. The notebook features the gOS Rocket operating system and comes packed full of “cloud computing applications” (gMail, Meebo, Skype, Wikipedia, Blogger, YouTube, [...]

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I’m not sure if this is what the GPhone will look like when it goes to retail, as this is only the first official prototype that was seen today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Apparently this prototype is running on Texas Instruments hardware, but I’m willing to bet that the Android platform [...]

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