AutoPilots

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July 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

If you’re like me, directional ability is not something you inherited. I stink at directions, I admit it. The Auto Pilot Road Navigator is a nifty tool for the directionally challenged. If your vehicle doesn’t come with gps navigation, you could spend $35 for this product. It will dicatate directions to […]

Cisco Wisco

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July 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The Black Hat Conference featured an interesting session on the Cisco vulnerability. Michael Lynn, formerly of ISS, did a presentation on the Cisco vulnerability. It took him six months to write the code for the exploit, but less than a minute to execute it. He demonstrated the exploit at the conference, leaving […]

WYSIWYG Wordpress Editor

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July 27, 2005 | 3 Comments

Joe Schmoe of Mudbomb has made a cool wysiwyg editor for wordpress. Instead of rehashing Joe’s words, here they are:
This plugin replaces the Wordpress “quicktags” with a wysiwyg(what you see is what you get) editor. It allows you to format post text just as you would in any word processor or email program.

XP Tweaks

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July 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Maximum PC has a list of some really cool XP tweaks. These were reader submitted tricks at that:
1. Save Searches as FND Files
2. Setting priority for DNS lookups to speed up Internet connection
3. Resetting ‘menushowdelay’ to improve menu speeds
4. Easy loading of […]

I Want My WarDriving Box

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July 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment

If your into testing wireless security and tinkering with software and hardware, this might be right up your alley. The folks at WarDriving have made sample boxes utilizing an OpenBSD OS on an Intel based system. This would allow you to build an in-car device that could scan as you drive. Add […]

How Fast Can You Go?

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July 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment

CNN Money is reporting that international company, Teleste, is saying that it will be able to provide ethernet to homes at speeds of 100 mb/s. The company says that it plans to deliver its technology over existing cable tv lines, hence decreasing infrastructure costs. American companies Scientific American and Cisco are also planning […]

Everest View is Superb

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July 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Lavalys has a freeware program that allows you to view high and low places on your computer:
Hardware Information
Motherboard & CPU
Accurate low-level information about motherboard, CPU and BIOS, including chipset details, DMI enumeration, AGP configuration information, SPD memory modules list, DRAM timing information and CPU instruction set support.

My Lap Burns No More

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July 18, 2005 | 4 Comments

Apple makes sleek, sexy products. It’s no wonder then that so do peripheral makers. One such product is the surfACE.

I go Boingo for Skype!

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July 15, 2005 | 1 Comment

+ = Wifi Telephony! Boingo and Skype are teaming up to provide Skype’s internet telephony over Boingo’s 18,000 Wifi hotspots worldwide. The service will cost $8 a month. When Skype started it was fraught with connection and quality problems. But the service has dramatically improved.

Shocking Clothing

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July 13, 2005 | 3 Comments

The No-Contact Jacket is a unique product designed for women. The jacket evens the odds when a woman is attacked by a man, delivering 80,000 volts of electricity to the assailant’s body. The jacket first has to be armed by a key. Then the jacket has to be charged by pressing a […]

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