The Anywired blog posts a good guide to using Ubuntu (and most any Linux distribution) productively, through both built-in but under-appreciated features and free software. We’ve covered a few of the…
March 2008
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Mon 31 Mar 2008
Mon 31 Mar 2008
We’ve got a guest post up over at the excellent Unclutterer blog this morning about how to clear out the clutter in your email inbox. Check it out for a quick refresher on how to reclaim your email…
Mon 31 Mar 2008
Speed Up Google Desktop’s Search Abilities [Google Desktop]
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You can do a lot of things with Google Desktop, and use it as an advanced widget and sidebar engine—but what if you really just want a better system-wide search tool? The Google Operating…
Mon 31 Mar 2008
Mix and Mash YouTube Videos with Omnisio [Video Editing]
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Splice together YouTube clips without downloading a single one using Omnisio, a free video compilation website with all the standard share/embed/reply features of modern web apps. The editing…
Mon 31 Mar 2008
Disable Windows’ "Use the Web Service" Prompt on Unknown Files [How To]
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Whenever Windows XP or Vista run across a file type the system doesn’t recognize (regardless of whether you do or not), the user is prompted with either selecting a program to open it or to “Use the…
Mon 31 Mar 2008
This article from a Swiss newspaper recounts the appearance of Christopher Tarnovsky at the European Black Hat conference (link is to a Google translation of the French original). Next month Tarnovsky will testify in a lawsuit brought by a maker of satellite TV encryption systems (Kudeslki) against an Israeli company (NDS), for whom Tarnovsky worked until recently. (NDS is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.) While with NDS, Tarnovsky cracked Kudeslki’s crypto, but claims he didn’t post the result on the open Net. His responses to audience questions are amusing, in particular when someone from Microsoft asks him about breaking the Xbox 360 console. Tarnovsky replies (in the translation): “I have been offered 100,000 dollars for the break, but I replied that it was not enough.”
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Mon 31 Mar 2008
Cellphone makers will be touting their latest wares at this week’s CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas. Topping the feature lists: Enhanced operating systems and software.
Mon 31 Mar 2008
MojoKid writes “Though the Asus Eee PC Windows XP variant isn’t due out until sometime in April, HotHardware was able to get their hands on a full retail bundle before they hit store shelves in the US. The standard assortment of accoutrements is included in the bundle, along with a couple of notable upgrades. Asus took the initiative to provide an additional 4GB SD card from Adata, a healthy storage expansion for the system. In addition, an Asus-branded optical mouse was thrown in for good measure. Microsoft’s Windows Live messenger, photo gallery and email suite are pre-installed on the the machine for collaborative and social networking capability, in addition to Microsoft Works for word processing, spreadsheets, and calendar functionality.”
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Mon 31 Mar 2008
LuckyLefty01 writes “I’m 21, going to college, and working part time doing odd jobs like math tutoring. In the past nine months or so, I’ve discovered and taken to programming (so far mostly C/C++/Obj-C). I am now looking seriously at something in this area as an eventual full time job. Since I don’t have much scheduled this coming summer, it would be great to try to get a job of some sort at a tech-related company in order to get some practical experience in the field. Even if I don’t have the background to get a job involving actual programming, I think that the knowledge of how such a company works would be valuable. Fortunately, I live in the SF Bay Area, so there should be plenty of companies around. I’m flexible about what I’m going to be doing, and very willing to learn just about anything anybody cares to teach me. If there’s some (or even quite a bit of) boring grunt work involved, I can do that too. What type of job would benefit an aspiring but inexperienced programmer the most? What methods might I use to find such a job?”
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Mon 31 Mar 2008
Test Your Password’s Strength with The Password Meter [Passwords]
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The Password Meter web utility tests the strength of your passwords as you type it, scoring your password strength based on a number of positive and negative password attributes. The test measures…