Counting on people’s voyeuristic “Trainwreck” (who doesn’t rubberneck at a road accident?)psychology and the “need to feed” and keep up on what’s going on in Japan, a brand new click-jacking scam has surfaced on facebook. This clickjacking/survey scam lures users in with supposed raw footage of the tsunami that hit Japan after the earthquake. The message contains a link to the page hosting the video purportedly shot by a CNN crew, or discove...
Just a quickie - After the betas and the RC, the finalized ie 9 is now available for download. A nice screenshot tour is available: http://lifehacker.com/#!5638885/internet-explorer-screenshot-tour-the-best-new-features-in-ie9 Download Link: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/#/download
The Windows Club has done us all a HUGE service. You all know that your computer needs updated drivers the same as your apps need to be updated. This keeps your computer working as it should without unexpected crashes. Thanks to their article ( http://tinyurl.com/6xcgfvs ) I learned of this utility and have updated my wireless network and chipset drivers. Back up your existing drivers before installing new ones. Download only from the main site or your computer manufacturer&rsquo...
Just a ‘quickie’, folks. Found two nice FREE image converter on the web. Faststone Image converter. Trustworthy name, and iResizer. This version of Faststone is from 4/28/2010. Features (per Faststone): “Converts and Renames images in batch mode Supports JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF and JPEG2000 Resize, crop, change color depth, apply color effects, add text, watermark and border effects Rename images with sequential number Search and replace text...
Real Mobile Health Care Computing! Needs some “blinds” I think… anyone up for a Medical Theme? Just kidding. This is a great computing development, since it allows a great deal of information to be available as well as real time interaction between consultants and the care giver at the point of care. Everyone profits. How many times I wish I had one of these – even for the simple weekend phone call. With the iPad, and even before its advent, tablets have aided the medical field...
From Gizmodo When JuniorCrooks posted recently about pills for weight loss , it got me curious. Meds have desirable, and undesirable side and adverse effects. Well, what about other methods? There are caloric and food type adjustments that should be made and I wondered about tech. There are surgical procedures such as stomach bypass surgery as well as “lap banding” where a balloon is wrapped around the junction of the esophagus and the stomach (done laparascop...
Like most people, I hardly ever throw away keyboards, mice, cams, etc. Boy, now I’m glad! Logitech sent me (and a bunch of other folks) an email today that advertises up to a 35% trade in on a host of tech gear for new Logitech equipment. They’ll probably refurbish the stuff and resell it here and abroad, but hey – “One man’s trash is anothers’ treasure”, right? At least, that’s what Fred (bkGarbageman) tells me. The url is: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/34...
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...
JAroche… a very respected name in skinning is having a birthday! Getting’ old, Javier! He’s doing it gracefully: You should check out Javier’s Gallery (I want more Javier!!! Quiero mas!) HERE . Javier is a Master Skinner, and frequently worked with vStyler (PlasFan CFX, Prowler CursorFX), and so many more. Please join me in wishing JAroche “¡Feliz Cumpleaños Javier!” A small wish for me? Well, that Master JAro...
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...
It turns out that the company sporting the motto "don't be evil" has been asking parents nationwide to disclose their children's personal information, including Social Security Numbers, and recruiting schools to help them do it, all by entering an art contest. The Contest is called "Doodle-4-Google". The company is even offering prize money to schools to enlist their help. Google even “OK’s” and “partners with” the following after school ...
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...