At times you may have only a single website open and yet you may find your Modem’s light flickering actively, indicating steady a data transfer. Apart from your browser, silently, there are several programs which may be accessing the internet from your Windows PC without your knowledge. Might be a good thing to find out which are! To find out which programs are accessing the internet, download and use TCPEye , a freeware ! TCPEye is network monitoring software t...
Two hackers who made a mockery of AT&T and Apple's iPad security are getting the book thrown at them in a US court. Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer took just five days to nick the data of 120,000 iPad users and pass it on to the Gawker website. They shared the code they used to do it with their mates. The code mimicked an iPad so that AT&T 's servers were fooled into believing that they were communicating with an Apple customer who would never dream of turning over its ...
These guys just don’t get it. Privacy concerns voiced by users prompt the company to revise its plan to let Facebook apps access users' home addresses and mobile phone numbers. Demonstrating yet again that it doesn't really understand privacy concerns, Facebook on Friday told developers that their Facebook apps could now ask permission for access to users' home addresses and mobile phone numbers. Folks, please REFUSE any such access! The comp...
The PDF converter software, PDZFilla, is now completely free for a limited period. This isn’t like any other PDF conversion software though as PDFZilla doesn’t convert your documents into Adobe’s portable document format, instead it can convert PDFs back into editable files. It’s main features include… Convert PDF to Word Convert PDF to Word with all text and Graphical data. Convert PDF to RTF Convert PDF to Rich Text F...
I bring this news item to you because of all we’ve been discussing lately in my posts regarding passwords, safety on facebook (and other social networking sites) and online security. Even if I could I would not remove the less pleasant aspects of this incident as censorship is as distasteful as the details. I am reporting them to you because they clearly emphasize what we all have posted and the replies to the posts. A recently-arrested hacker reportedly used pers...
The Kama Sutra virus which raised its head in 2006 is back again. This time with a PowerPoint presentation promising to share with you the various Kama Sutra positions. The slides, which would probably raise an eyebrow if viewed in your office shows thirteen different positions, some with fanciful names such as “The Frog”, “Wheelbarrow” and “Lyons Stagecoach”. The malware comes as a file called Real kamasutra.pp...
Head over to Microsoft’s Personalization Gallery and pick up the “Irish Theme” (great Celtic .wav’s in it). and while you’re there… St. Patty’s Day is coming, so get your “Shamrocks” as well ! Don’t forget though, we have some great St. Patty’s Day Themes here at WinCustomize, too! Last year, Philly0381 put together a Theme Manager Suite, “Leprechaun Majik” from member...
Stockholm, Sweden, Hannover, Germany—March 1, 2011—Tobii Technology today unveiled the world’s first laptop with integrated eye control. The prototype laptop has been developed in collaboration with computer manufacturer Lenovo and will be shown publicly for the first time at CeBIT in Hannover, March 1-5. This is a true boon for accident victims, and people afflicted by various neurological problems such as MS, strokes, ALS by giving...
The Israeli 'Technion' and The College of Judea and Samaria have developed a new nanobot that will be able to navigate inside the human body with external, wireless guidance! In the last few years scientists have been making efforts to minimize robots so they will aid medical procedures: Robots are already involved in spinal surgeries today, and this new nanobot will hopefully be involved in new highly accurate medical procedures allowing minimal tissue damage. The n...
Hankers sent a nice utility 30 day free availability notification to me (thanks!). You can get it here: http://www.jpgtopdfconverter.com/giveaway.html Back in 2009, Po’ Smedley wrote a great post about “ A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words ”. As it turns out, a picture from your digital camera reveals a good deal of data: Where and when photographed, etc. Not always info you wish to share, at any rate. At giveawayoftheday , a good metadata stripper is b...
tables reproduced from gfi software talk tech This list of the top vulnerable Applications and Operating Systems in 2010 is really surprising! While the findings for the operating systems may be on expected lines Windows being the biggest target, the one’s for the applications really floored me. Browsers appear to be the favored targets when looking at applications. Chrome followed by Safari were the most vulnerable apps....
By special request from a really great artist, person and friend. He’s a “Jack” of all trades, and a Master of at least one. It’s not Skinhit, although the description fits him too. And no: I’m not going to name him/her/it. OK. No one can ever place enough emphasis on this topic. Period. Anyone who has experienced an irreparable crash and didn’t have a backup knows this: It’s a “Do this or weep” thing. Fact: Every hard...
I noticed several people had posted on problems they were having getting Dreams to play on their Desktops, so I went hunting and found a utility (I love Utilities!) that might just help in finding which CoDecs they have and which they need to run the Dreams on their systems. The fact that it does a lot more only added to it’s usefulness. VideoInspector Version 2.2.7.125 might just be the tool you need to get the reason why those gorgeous Dreams aren’t doing what they s...
I wouldn’t pass this one up! Aiseesoft Total Media Converter is an all-in-one media converter for multimedia users to do just about everything you could want. It’ll convert video/audio files, rip DVD to any other video/audio formats like MPEG, AVI, MOV, FLV, SWF, MP3, AAC and any others for Apple iPod, iPhone, iPad and any other devices you can name. Usually it costs $39.00, but for the next 8 hours you can get it free on giveawayoftheday.com Just read the &...
Easeus Data Recovery Wizard is a program for Windows that supports multiple modes of data recovery. Usually, I would post a download link, but ghacks is requesting not to hotlink to it, so you’ll have to navigate to http://www.ghacks.net/2011/02/18/easeus-data-recovery-wizard-review-giveaway/ Where an excellent and complete review as well as the download link can be found. From ghacks: “Core Features Recover deleted or lost files Dis...