MagicJack is a new startup that is taking aim at the likes of Vonage and Skype. MagicJack is a true plug and play USB device that allows you to make free calls to the US and Canada. Reading users’ reviews you would think it is the best thing since sliced bread. And they may be [...]
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AOL Instant Messenger Security Issue
September 28th, 2007 
admin Okay, you’re chatting with your friends on AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) and suddenly you’ve been exploited. Somehow, someone has pawned IE via AIM and now you have a trojan backdoor running. Sure, it sounds like some kind of spy and dagger movie, but it’s true. In this day and age of cat-and-mouse security, crackers and [...]
Open Source Linux Virtualization
September 27th, 2007 admin Maybe you have never heard of virtualization. If you haven’t, you will. Okay, maybe that’s an overstatement to the average PC user. If you don’t hear about it, you will probably end up using a virtualized computer or server. You may not know it’s virtualized, but you will most likely end up using one. Virtualization [...]
Lock and Unlock Your Computer Using Your Cell Phone
September 26th, 2007 admin Don’t you just hate logging in and out of your computer? If you’re in a corporate setting, they sometimes have a time out feature to force the lock screen. If it’s set at a fast time interval, it can be super annoying. And if you work on stuff at home with the kids around and [...]
Biometric Fingerprint Reading Home Deadbolt
September 25th, 2007 admin Do you hate fumbling around for keys to get into the house? If you’re bringing in groceries, or carrying kids in tow, it can be a nuisance to find that key. And what about locking the kids in the house – or your kids locking themselves in the house? Wouldn’t it be great to have [...]
AnySim GUI iPhone Unlocker
September 24th, 2007 admin One of the biggest complaints of the iPhone is that you’re locked into the AT&T network. Well, that’s behind the original cost, the rebate, the battery life, and the supplemental iRack. In any case, some resourceful folks figured out how to unlock the iPhone to free the tethers from AT&T. Well, that and AT&T’s massive [...]
Google Presentations Launches with Security Hole
September 20th, 2007 admin In case you haven’t heard, Google Docs very recently added presentations to it’s list of offerings. I took Google Presentations for a spin and it’s impressive. The system was responsive. You can do almost any of the basic things you can in Powerpoint. Sure, there aren’t as many bells and whistles, but I don’t use [...]
“Painless” Patch Injects Medicine for You
September 19th, 2007 billy Last time you looked at your printer, I don’t know if you knew the same technology would some day provide you with a painless way to be injected with medicines. Engineers at HP, using a patented inkjet printing system, have configured a medicinal patch to allow almost any kind of preparation to get into your [...]
Don’t Cut Thy Grass
September 18th, 2007 admin One of the age old pains of living with a yard is cutting the grass. Well, some of you like it because it gives you time to zone out and not interact with people. But for the most of us, it’s just time we could be using doing something more important like, er, building laser [...]
Hackers Pillaged TD Ameritrade Database
September 17th, 2007 admin And here we go again. It gets old to hear about large corporations and governmental bodies being hacked. But this time it’s investment firm TD Ameritrade that’s been hit. TD Ameritrade did an internal investigation upon finding a massive spam campaign aimed at stocks. It seems that the spammers had been targeting most of their [...]
