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Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Avoid ! 2007-04-11 15:15:00 Firefox has a big bunch of great extensions, but there are some extensions to be best avoided, including some of the most popular one. The popularity shouldn't be the acid test to determine if we should install an extension. Most extensions that are truly broken and crash our browser or suck up all our CPU power either, get fixed quickly or simply vanish. Some extensions are bad in unapparent ways, or just don't provide enough benefits to be worth running. >> Read more:Firefox
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Hip E-mail Addresses Bad for Resumes 2007-04-11 15:12:00 Finding that perfect snarky, witty, so cool nickname to attach to our e-mail address, the one that fits our likes our fave jeans, can be a creative coup. But alas, for job-seeking, the hip moniker might be a career killer. A new study finds that electronic resumes linked to job candidates with quirky and “unprofessional” e-mail names are rated lower by potential employers than those with professional names. With the increasing use of online screening, an applicant’s e-mail address could influence whether a resume gets tossed into the cyber-trash or makes it to human resources. >>
Googling Your Date ! 2007-04-10 14:54:00 In the Internet age the ability to check people out before they ever meet up has forever changed the rules. For better or worse, "Googling
" your date has become standard practice. The results can be enlightening, surprising and sometimes, a little disturbing. With a little creativity and Internet savvy, a person can find anything from blog postings to news stories that might include personal details. It helps to know some basic details upfront, such as an e-mail address that could help turn up an online nickname; some go as far as paying for an online background check. >>
CosmosCode : NASA's Open Source Software Development for Space Exploration 2007-04-09 15:05:00 NASA scientists plans to announce a new open source project called CosmosCode, which aimed at recruiting volunteers to write code for live space missions. These projects are creating a sort of Source
Forge for space. It will build a core offering of free and open source space software through an independent project hosting website, and the development and management of a free software community specific to the challenges and opportunities afforded by space. This community will provide a common access point for individuals, academics, companies, and space agencies around the world using, contributing to, or supporting re-usable, modular, extensible, or standards driven space exploration software. >> Read more:NASA
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Anatomy of Microsoft Animated Cursor Attack 2007-04-09 14:53:00 Earlier this week, Microsoft
shipped an emergency out-of-band patch to block zero-day attacks against a code execution hole in the way Windows handles animated cursor [.ani] files. Here's a visual look at elements of the hacker attacks, including malicious Web sites, the exploit in action and the adult-themed spam-run linked to the attacks. >> Read more:Cursor
Top 50 Best Tech Products of All Time 2007-04-06 14:52:00 PC World has listed down the top 50 best tech products of all time. From breakthrough hardware to time honored software, the amazing products that changed technology and our lives forever and that we can't live without. This products have attained a certain level of popularity, had staying power, and perhaps made some sort of breakthrough, influencing the development of later products of its ilk. >> Read more:Products
Podloso : First iPod Virus Reported 2007-04-06 14:05:00 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions said it has discovered the first virus designed to infect iPod
s. The virus will only work if Linux has been installed on an iPod. Also, the user has to load the virus onto the iPod, Kaspersky. It cannot be launched automatically without user involvement. Once launched, Podloso will scan the iPod's hard disk and infect all executable files. Any attempt to launch these files will cause the virus to display: "You are infected with Oslo the first iPodLinux Virus". >> Read more:First
Memory Hacking for the Future 2007-04-05 14:32:00 USC laboratory scientists Ted Berger and Vijay Srinivasan, has spent the past decade engineering a brain implant that can re-create thoughts. The chip they found could remedy everything from Alzheimer’s to absent-mindedness—and reduce memory loss to nothing more than a computer glitch. >> Read more:Memory
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Next Generation Image Search Engines 2007-04-04 16:37:00 A Google image search for tiger yields many tiger photos but also returns images of a tiger pear cactus stuck in a tire, a racecar, Tiger Woods, the boxer Dick Tiger, Antarctica, and many others. As today’s large Internet search engines look for images using captions or other text linked to images rather than looking at what is actually in the picture. Electrical engineers from UC San Diego are making progress on a different kind of image search engine one that analyzes the images themselves. This approach may be folded into next-generation image search engines for the Internet and in the shorter term, could be used to annotate and search commercial and private image collections. >> Read more:Generation
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53 Interesting Twitter Links for Fun, Geeks ! 2007-04-03 09:37:00 Twitter needs no introduction, checkout few of the Interesting Twitter links for fun, geeks:TwiTunes is an AppleScript for Mac OS X that posts the current iTunes track to Twitter: http://tint.de/twitunes-applescriptUbuntu Deskbar plugin, script to let's us to post twitter messages from the Ubuntu Deskbarhttp://philwilson.org/blog/2007/03/post-to-twitter-from-ubuntu-deskbar.htmlTwitter Perl command-line status ScriptA Perl command line status script to answer the age-old question from the comfort of the command-line, via twitter. http://polydistortion.net/sw/twitter/wdCatch-up Your Favorite Celebrities on TwitterBritney Spears http://twitter.com/britneyDavid Beckham http://twitter.com/davidbeckhamTom Cruise http://twitter.com/tomcruisePamela Anderson http://twitter.com/pamelaandersonRobbie Williams http://twitter.com/robbiewilliamsAngelina Jolie http://twitter.com/angelinajolieMadonna http://twitter.com/MadonnaSimon Cowell http://twitter.com/simoncowellJohn Travolta http://www.twitte Read more:Twitter
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IBM Technology Helps Disabled Surf the Web 2007-04-02 14:34:00 IBM has demonstrated more than 20 new technologies, including several that make the Internet and offline applications more accessible to the disabled. A technology called Easy Web Browsing helps the elderly, people with limited vision and the color-blind by reading text out loud and allowing users to customize the size and color of Web content. >> Read more:IBM
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Interesting April Fool's Pranks For Geek's ! 2007-03-30 15:19:00 Geek
s love April
Fools' Day. Once a year, we get to take advantage of our non-geek friends' and co-workers flimsy grasp on technology. The best geek pranks involve making a gadget or a piece of software appear broken. Since the tech savvy will quickly notice these pranks, they are best performed on the inept, the perpetually preoccupied and the woefully unaware. >>
TestTube : YouTube's Lab 2007-03-30 14:07:00 TestTube is the YouTube
ideas incubator where YouTube engineers and developers test recipes that aren't fully developed. Currently two new services are available for testing AudioSwap and Streams. AudioSwap allows users to create song tracks for their videos by adding songs from artists and record labels. While, Streams lets several users create an online YouTube room where they watch and interact with each other in real-time while sharing videos. >>
Students Give up Social Networks for Six weeks 2007-03-30 14:04:00 Many users describe the popular social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace as addictive, which is why they say giving up these 21st-century temptations is a sincere sacrifice, as the Easter approaches."It's been hard, especially in the beginning," said Kerry Graham, who says she gave up Facebook for Lent. During the first days of Lent, she admits she had to stop herself from typing the site's Web address nearly every time she checked her e-mail. >> Read more:Social
Users of Digital Devices, Potentially Dangerous on Roads ! 2007-03-29 14:05:00 Think you can juggle phone calls, e-mail, instant messages and computer work to get more done in a time-starved world? Several research reports, provide evidence of the limits of multitasking. The findings, according to neuroscientists, psychologists and management professors, suggest that many people would be wise to curb their multitasking behavior when working in an office, studying or driving a car.In a recent study, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer code, after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages. They strayed off to reply to other messages or browse news, sports or entertainment Web sites.“Multitasking is going to slow you down, increasing the chances of mistakes,” said David E. Meyer, a cognitive scientist and director of the Brain, Cognition and Action Laboratory at the University of Michigan. >> Read more:Digital
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RFID Feared as Possible Terrorist Target 2007-03-29 13:55:00 According to an report by London's Royal Academy of Engineering states that someday a terrorist will be able to read personal details from a distance and set a bomb to go off when a particular person gets within range. It's already widely acknowledged that unencrypted data stored on an RFID chip in a passport can be read covertly by anybody with a pass-by reader. With a RFID reader, we can pick up whatever the RFID chip is sending out passport number, name where an individual was at, at what time, address, Social Security number. >> Read more:Possible
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Is Our Computer a Criminal ? 2007-03-28 14:51:00 Our home computer may be committing a crime at this very moment. It might be sending out Spam. It might be helping attack the Internet itself, silently and invisibly. The Web, has been turned into an operating system for criminals. Computer
viruses that hijack PCs and turn them into electronic robots, or bots, have become the killer application. >> Read more:Criminal
FindSounds : Search for Sounds 2007-03-28 14:35:00 FindSounds
.com allows us to find sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web. It provides powerful features, yet is simple and easy to use, and suitable for all ages. It also has FindSounds Palette an software program that lets us search more than one million sounds on the Web and to organize and search our own sound collection. >> Read more:Search
MS Internet Explorer Attack Code Posted 2007-03-27 14:04:00 A new software has been published on the Internet
that could be used to exploit a known flaw in Internet Explorer
. The code posted to the Milw0rm.com web site, exploits a recently patched flaw in MS Internet Explorer
. It could be used to run unauthorized software on a computer that was not updated with the latest Microsoft patches, security experts warn and the Milw0rm code works on IE6. >>
Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2007-03-27 14:00:00 BusinessWeek lists down the best young tech entrepreneurs, aged 30 and under, most likely to shape the world's digital future. The list represents tech's best and brightest, culled from a long list of nominees by the top U.S. venture-capital firms and BusinessWeek.com editors. This year's hot areas include Web applications and digital music. >> Read more:Entrepreneurs
Other Side of the World 2007-03-26 14:55:00 Ever wondered what will be on the other side of the world, Just checkout this dighole map powered by Google Maps to find out exactly what resides the other side of our zone. >> Read more:World
How To Spy On Google ? 2007-03-22 09:31:00 Forbes reports that there's no need to rely on the rumor mill to find out what Google
is up to. Just head to the company's online job listings, where the company declares that it is "experimenting with a few wireless communications systems," adding that "we are building a small team of top-notch logic designers and analog designers aimed at nothing less than making the entire world's information accessible from anywhere for free." The company's own job listings, for instance, have allowed Google watchers and followers to spot advance signs of everything from its online office suite to a possible foray into the travel business. >>
YouTube Video Awards 2006 2007-03-22 09:30:00 YouTube has launched the first ever YouTube Awards
with 70 videos in seven categories.Viewers can vote to pick their favorites of 2006. Winners will receive trophies and special promotion on YouTube's front page. Watch them and vote for your favorite video. >> Read more:YouTube
Video Racing Games Linked to Risky Road Behavior 2007-03-20 16:06:00 A study finds out people who play crash-and-bang car-racing video and computer games may be more aggressive, risky drivers in the real world. A series of studies found a consistent relationship between dangerous driving in the virtual world of video screens and aggressive feelings and actions behind the real wheel, German psychologists report. The researchers also noted that children start playing such games at age 10, on average, potentially creating future generations of dangerous drivers. >> Read more:Racing
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10 Most Important Games of All Time 2007-03-19 16:53:00 Video games, like movies, are worth preserving and studying as cultural artifacts. So says Henry Lowood, curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University, who together with game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky; academic researcher Matteo Bittanti; and game journalist Christopher Grant came up with a list of the 10 most important video games of all time. >> Read more:Games
How to Get the Web's New Lingo Right ? 2007-04-12 15:02:00 Unsure of the difference between vlipping and vlogging? Can’t tell a Digg from a crog? Keep this glossary handy next time you log on to the web. The World Wide Web is adept at speeding up communication. So there’s little wonder it has given rise to a new language of abbreviations, acronyms, and other shorthand for activities and innovations. view slide show >> Read more:Lingo
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Future of the Car : Commute 2.0 2007-04-16 14:58:00 PopularScience Magazine takes an in-depth look at top ten automotive breakthroughs that promise to save us gas money and maybe even save the planet. From sexy electric sports cars to diminutive gas sippers, get ready to test drive the vehicles of tomorrow - The Commute
2.0. >> Read more:Future
CrossLoop : Free Secure Screen Sharing Tool 2007-04-16 14:51:00 CrossLoop is a free secure screen sharing utility, which extends the boundaries of VNC’s traditional screen sharing by enabling non-technical users to get connected from anywhere on the Internet in seconds without changing any firewall or router settings. It only takes a few minutes to setup and no signup is required. The session data is encrypted at the end-points before being sent using a 128-bit encryption algorithm using a randomly-generated 12-digit access code. >> Read more:Secure
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Mobile Life 2020 Competition : Predict the Mobile's Future 2007-04-17 14:53:00 What will the mobile phone look like in the year 2020? Is it even smaller maybe integrated with the ring on our finger? Will it be a multipurpose tool that communicates with all the other tools we own? Submit your design of the future mobile phone, with a description of what it will be used for and a set of drawings describing its visual appearance in case it has one? The winner wins a 6 month employment to realize parts of the vision. Mobile
Life Center at Stockholm University in Sweden conducts the competition and requires no entry fee, 31st May is the last day for submission. >> Read more:Future
Google + Apple = Goopple 2007-04-17 14:46:00 Google and Apple
already share plenty of ties. What would happen if they actually worked together?. It’s easy to see why tech fantasists root for a future tie-up between the two companies. Their fan bases would view a Google -Apple collaboration like a super group, all-star sports team or celebrity romance all in one. Imagine a Google integrating its search prowess deep into Apple's slick operating system. Or iPods that come loaded with Google maps, plugged into a wi-fi system powered by the search giant. slide show >> Read more:Google
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