As you all know, Metall Tech (bleumart) was chosen as the skin to base all the app skinning efforts on, after Island Dog raised the idea of a Community Project. Special thanks have to go to sydneysiders for that idea, her screen shots (used here) and for her well known vStyler “back to work, slacker!” whip. teddybearcholla was chosen (with her pom poms) as the Cholla Cheering Squad of 2014. Also, special thanks go to DaveBax for collecting all the links to the skins (below). You...
TheVerge recently published an article about MS considering making its Windows Phone OS and Windows RT available for free to OEMs. That question has been occupying my thoughts lately due in part to two recent Forums posts, and the ensuing comments. I held that due to Google’s business model, Android and Apple’s ‘Updates’ policies, Windows would probably follow suit. Preston Gralla has been an astute observer and author (more than 40 books and countless articles and revie...
You’ll be receiving no Valentine from this CUPID: The Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone. This via Zach Honig at Engadget . photocredit Engadget This drone ‘copter delivers an 80,000 Volt zap. The developers say it’s for use against ‘bad guys’. The devs hail from Chaotic Moon, the same people who developed SharkPunch (and its Leap Motion visor mounted controller) and Oculus Rift and VR software as well as a motorized, gesture controlled skate board (Board of ...
This little gem is just what the Doctor ordered for those who repair family PCs/laptops as well as being a great portable tool on a stick if you’re traveling. First of all, it’s free, it launches from the systray, and gives you organized access to everything organized on the USB device and the computer. Further, you can add items to the menu easily. Here’s what it looks like: Main features: Organize and launch applications via a tray menu Closes ...
Of course, at this point you’ll need an iPhone to hook it up to, and it’ll need refilling, but the new alarm clock will wake you up with the sound of sizziling bacon and more importantly, its SMELL! The small device is simply plugged into the headphone jack. While the app and sizzling sound are free on the website, the device will only go to those who fill out a request and are chosen in a lottery. This makes the price of an iPhone worth it! Good luck! Sou...
Avira has added two good features to its free edition security software: Cloud protection and browser safety. The former was a premium edition only feature. This should happen per gHacks within the next three months. This works by virtually fingerprinting the files to be uploaded and they are inspected for safety for other Avira users. “Browser Safety” is included when you install Avira Antivirus. Avira browser safety has been around as a beta for some time as a Firefox and Chro...
“Users being targeted by the scam will see a phony webpage modeled after the Netflix login page. When a user enters Netflix account info, the scam site claims that the user's Netflix account has been suspended due to "unusual activity" and then provides a fake customer service number. When the user calls that number, a representative on the phone recommends a download of "Netflix support software," which is actually remote login software that gives the scammer...
They happen to you because the website you visited was infected. This can happen to even the best of websites, but usually doesn’t if it’s well maintained. You didn’t attempt to download anything…it happened through vulnerabilities. These are “Drive-by” downloads. Once the malicious code is injected into the website, it will exploit vulnerabilities in your browser, Adobe reader, Adobe Flash or Java. So, how do you prevent this from happening to you (remembering nothin...
Apparently, millions of Yahoo users’ webcam images were intercepted by the British NSA equivalent GCHQ. The period involved is 2008-2010 and in “Operation Optic Nerve” in which the NSA worked with GCHQ and in one 6 month period some 1.8 million users’ images were gathered. A large quantity of these were sexually explicit images, apparently. "Unfortunately … it would appear that a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their ...
Never get much of a response on these, but here’s the schedule: The instructors are great…the material well organized. There are even reruns in the evening. You get the live webcast and rerun for free: http://www.creativelive.com/conferences/photoshop-week-2014?utm_source=creativeLIVE&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PSWTomorrow Just look at this!
Adobe published an RC for Camera RAW 8.4 and a DNG Converter tool, along with numerous new lens profiles. What’s new in Camera Raw? A before/after view which imho is JUST what Camera Raw needed! from Julianne Kost’s blog There are a bunch more things which you can see by clicking the photo credit link above. All in all? For a while longer, Photoshop and Lightroom are available at $9.99/mo. for a bit longer (by 3/31/14). This makes it an even b...
The last of the original family and child to Georg and Maria von Trapp, immortalized by the Broadway play and Oscar winning movie in the mid ‘60s has passed on in her home in Vermont, has died at age 99. She and her family escaped the Nazis during WWII. Her mother wrote a book providing the plot for the play and movie. During and after the war, her family toured and sang, becoming very popular. They eventually settled in their ski resort in Vermont. Rest In Peace....
This fix is NOT meant to relieve the need to do the regular patch Tuesday stuff. This is an MS “fixit” for two Zero Day bugs affecting IE9 and 10 allowing remote code execution, and this WILL happen if you visit an infected website…usually through a phishing email. The exploit involves JavaScript, a programming language used to create some interactive content on websites. Normally Internet Explorer should block JavaScript from carrying out commands on anything other than the web...
The Windows Club has put out a list of password recovery tools for Windows, Browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefoxand more), Mail, Web and Wifi. There are many listed…no point in relisting them here. Since this is the kind of page you really might like to bookmark, here’s the link: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/free-password-recovery-tools
Yes…like the Transformers. Only for W7 and W8. When we buy computers, we expect them to come with a media player, a calculator, a browser, etc. We also (from prior computers have our preferences for each function and pretty much have come to expect that we’d have to download a program for each task. Not that the one coming with the OS isn’t sufficient, it might just boil down to whether it’s skinnable, or if you like dark themes, would just go great with ...