Archive for March, 2005

Catch Thieves with Liquid

I read about this technology a while ago, but it seems that they are improving its applications. Smartwater is an ingenious security liquid. Yep, thieves can be totally nabbed by a liquid. SmartWater is produced by a UK based company. It is a 10 billion combination possibility chemical signature liquid. This allows for precise identification [...]

Login Looks

People like personalizing their stuff. It’s true. Some people like personalizing everything on their computer. Are you one of those people? Did you know that you can change your windows login and boot screens? This allows you a unique level of personalization. Folks are usually uneasy about changing these because they require changing settings in [...]

I feel Linspired!

Are you a windows user, but getting tired of the steep prices? Or maybe you are tired of constant security warnings and occasional crashes. You have been considering switching to Linux, but you just aren’t ready to jump off the cliff. Wouldn’t it be great if you could find a happy intermediary? You could get [...]

Grafedia

Wired has posted an interesting story on a concept called Grafedia. Grafedia is a concept dreamed up by John Geraci. It’s basically a way to link the web to the urban landscape. It’s a way to get people interacting. People who would otherwise be strangers, now exchange. It’s an urban hyperlink to a virtual place, [...]

Make Firefox Soar

Ok, you cruise the internet a lot. And you like Firefox because, well, a lot of things, one of which is its speed. But do you want to make Firefox really soar? Try yet another firefox tweak that you will absolutely love. This one involves “piggy-backing” off of another little tweak that I introduced earlier. [...]

IBM announces anti-spam technology

IBM has introduced a stop-gap sender authentication technology, dubbed FairUCE. It is stop-gap because other, more robust, sender authentication technologies such as Sender ID, SPF, and DomainKeys are still in development. These better technologies will require domain acceptance and implementation, which will require vast changes in the way current emails are published. Until then, there [...]

XP Repair Reinstallation

1. Boot the computer using the XP CD. You may need to change the boot order in the system BIOS. Check your system documentation for steps to access the BIOS and change the boot order. 2. When you see the “Welcome To Setup” screen, you will see the options below This portion of the Setup [...]

Cell Phones Age You

“If you put a 20-year-old driver behind the wheel with a cell phone, their reaction times are the same as a 70-year-old driver who is not using a cell phone,” said David Strayer, a University of Utah psychology professor. David Strayer has recently finished a study on the use of cell phones in cars and [...]

PSP – Finally!

The Sony corporation will finally roll out the PlayStation Portable system in the states this week. The system sports an incredible 4.3 inch lcd screen. The PSP can play movies, digital music and games. It also has built in Wi-Fi and could be expanded to offer internet service in the future. Wi-Fi allows for multiple [...]

ITunes DRM Hack

It seems that a collaboration between multiple programmers has produced a linux interface for Itunes that can download unprotected songs. Jon Johansen was one the programmers in 2000 that produced a crack (DeCSS) for DVD copy protection. Johansen says that the new program, PyMusique, is aimed at providing a Linux based solution for the itunes [...]

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