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Bits: YouTube Praises Dismissal of Copyright Suit Against Veoh

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:37:15 +0000

A federal judge threw out a copyright infringement suit against video-sharing site Veoh. Google’s YouTube unit claimed the ruling bodes well for its legal fight with Viacom.

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New Words and Tools for Covering the Conventions

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:29:22 +0000

The Democratic National Convention is relying heavily on new media to pass on information about Barack Obama to friends inside the hall and out.

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Bits: Cisco Buys E-Mail and Calendaring Start-Up for $215 Million

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:29:19 +0000

Cisco announced Wednesday it will acquire PostPath, a venture-backed start-up that provides open-source email and calendaring software, for $215 million.

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Bits: I’m in Your Google Docs, Reading Your Spreadsheets

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:29:14 +0000

Sharing documents with your co-workers via Google Docs sure is convenient. But one little typo can turn into a big security problem.

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Advertising: Major League Baseball Is Blogging Its Way Through the Playoffs

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:21:11 +0000

Baseball’s playoff advertising push gets under way Thursday, when the first spots of the league’s largest ever campaign are broadcast.

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A U.S.B. Cable for Splitting Screens and Sharing Files Between Two Computers

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:13:10 +0000

Iogear’s new U.S.B. Laptop K.V.M. Switch, a double-ended cable that connects two Windows PCs or laptops together, lets you use one PC to control the other and even drag files between the machines.

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A Mouse to Aid Warriors in Their Arena of Choice

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:05:06 +0000

Made with the needs of videogame fans in mind, the Avatar mouse from NZXT comes with seven programmable buttons that can be custom-configured for different types of games.

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Reasonable Volumes Built Into the Earbuds

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:57:04 +0000

With parental concerns in mind, the LoudEnough earbuds from Ultimate Ears have volume-limiting safeguards built into the hardware.

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Phone Smart: Freeing Those Snapshots Trapped Inside the Cellphone

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:49:01 +0000

Carriers and device manufacturers have only lately figured out that users need a single button that says, “Send my new photo now.”

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Basics: For the Advanced in Age, Easy-to-Use Technology

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:41:00 +0000

The companies that are successfully marketing new technologies to older people are the ones that have learned to create products that span generations, providing style and utility to a range of age groups.

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Industry Rethinks Moneymaking Software Practice

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:32:58 +0000

Before they ship PCs to retailers like Best Buy, computer makers get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to load them up with lots of free software. For $30, Best Buy will get rid of it for you.

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State of the Art: New Nikon Holds a Secret

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:24:55 +0000

The Nikon D90 camera, arriving in stores next month, has the features and performance of a single-lens reflex, and can record high-definition video.

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Give Yourself or Others a New Look, Digitally

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:16:53 +0000

Combining a graphics tablet with a built-in camera and a computer-based set of creativity tools, Stylin’ Studio is the latest thing in face-editing technology.

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For the Next Global Mission (or Hike in the Woods), a Watch Loaded With Gadgetry

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:08:51 +0000

The Suunto X10 watch hides a G.P.S. unit, stopwatch, compass, barometer and altimeter into a package not much bigger than 007’s favorite Omega.

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Front Row: Designer Collections Packed Into an iPhone

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:00:50 +0000

Style.com, the online home of Vogue, is introducing an iPhone application designed to enable dedicated followers of fashion to watch runway shows during New York Fashion Week.

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TiVo Posts Profit as Revenue Rises 4%

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:52:48 +0000

TiVo posted a quarterly profit for only the third time in its 11-year history as the pioneer in digital video recorders improved margins on hardware and reduced marketing costs.

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Target Settles Web Suit

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:44:46 +0000

Target has agreed to pay $6 million in damages to plaintiffs in California unable to use its online site as part of a class-action settlement with the National Federation of the Blind.

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Tip of the Week: Adding RSS Feeds to Your Screensaver

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:36:43 +0000

Want to turn the Mac’s screensaver into a dynamic billboard for news headlines, favorite blog feeds or even Facebook notifications?

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Adding Memory to Your PC

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:28:42 +0000

I have a Dell Dimension 4500S that came with 256 megabytes of memory, and I added another 256 MB myself. Can I replace one of the modules with a one-gigabyte chip without any problems?

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Troubleshooting a Slow Network

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:21:26 +0000

My wireless home network used to be fine, but I have noticed that it has recently gotten periodically slower. What might be causing this drop in speed?

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Microsoft Animates the Scrapbook

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:19:27 +0000

Back in those dark days when photographs were confined to a strip of processed chemicals called “film,” there wasn’t much spare-time photographers could do with pictures. You could order blow-ups of photographs or cut and paste them into scrapbooks, and that was about it.

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Finding Use for the Airwaves’ ‘White Spaces’

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:17:01 +0000

The Federal Communications Commission has spent nearly a year testing devices designed to use empty television channels, known as white spaces, for high-speed Internet service. As those tests near conclusion, the agency is evaluating yet another proposal about the best use of the airwaves.

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Scientists Reprogram Adult Cells’ Function

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:14:22 +0000

Scientists have transformed one type of fully developed adult cell directly into another inside a living animal, a startling advance that could lead to cures for a variety of illnesses and sidestep the political and ethical quagmires

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A New Breed Of Hackers Tracks Online Acts of War

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:12:04 +0000

TORONTO — Here in the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, a new breed of hackers is conducting digital espionage.

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Changing Customers Password Without Consent

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:10:07 +0000

risinganger writes “BBC News is reporting that a customer had his password changed without his knowledge. After some less than satisfactory service the customer in question changed his password to ‘Llyods is pants’. At some point after that a member of staff changed the password to ‘no it’s not’. Requests to change it back to ‘Llyods is pants’, ‘Barclays is better’ or censorship were met with refusal. Personally I found the original change funny, like the customer did. After all, god forbid a sense of humour rears it’s ugly head in business. What isn’t acceptable is the refusal to change it per the customers requests after that.”

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Eight Great Back-to-School iPhone Apps [Back To School]

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:26:23 +0000

If you’re headed back to school this semester with an iPhone or iPod touch in your pocket, you’re in luck: The iTunes App Store is filled with applications to make your life easier as a student and…

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Battle of the Must-Have Firefox Extensions [Lifehacker Faceoff]

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:26:22 +0000

Mozilla Labs crowned their picks of best new and updated Firefox 3 extensions in a recent contest, but what about best extensions of all time? Last year we ran down our must-have Firefox extensions,…

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HashTab Verifies the Integrity of Your Downloads [Featured Windows Download]

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:26:21 +0000

Windows only: If you download a lot of applications from the internet, chances are you’ve seen an MD5 hash next to the download link. This unique hash is used to verify the integrity of your…

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UNetbootin Creates USB-Bootable Linux the Easy Way [Featured Download]

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:26:21 +0000

Windows and Linux only: Free bootable image creator UNetbootin automates the downloading, imaging, and installing of Linux distributions onto USB thumb drives, creating a persistent, boot-anywhere…

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Hive Five Winner for Best FTP Client: FileZilla [Hive Five Followup]

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:26:20 +0000

Open-source FTP client FileZilla takes home the top spot in last week’s Hive Five Best FTP Clients poll with an overwhelming 52% of the vote. The rest of the field was split up relatively evenly…

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How Easily Are Your Accounts Hacked? [Security]

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:26:16 +0000

Using only information from Facebook, blogs, and resumes, security expert Herbert Thompson hacked into his friend’s bank account in minutes. Makes you want to seriously rethink your answers to lost…

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How to Build a 3-D Theater

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:16:01 +0000

3-D films have been around since 1890, but unless you like watching your TV with red and blue glasses, the technology hasn’t progressed much. Thankfully, Sean Hellfritsch and Isaiah Saxon of Encyclopedia Pictura have teamed together to show you how to create a
DIY home 3-D theater rivaling the 3-D technology you’ll find at your local Imax.

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The Power Grid Can’t Handle Wind Farms

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:13:37 +0000

DesScorp writes “The Times reports on the problems of adding wind farms to the power grid. Because of the grid’s old design, it can’t handle the various spikes that wind farms sometimes have, and there’s no efficient way to currently move massive amounts of that power from one section of the country to the other. Further complicating things is the fact that under current laws, power grid regulation is a state matter, and the Federal government has comparatively little authority over it right now. Critics are calling for federal authority over the grid, and massive new construction of “superhighways” to share the wind power wealth nationally. Quoting the article, ‘The dirty secret of clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.’”

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Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap?

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:10:03 +0000

AlHunt writes “I’ve been tasked with finding a way to bury digitally stored photographs in a small underground time capsule to be opened in 25 years. It looks like we’ll be using a steel vessel, welded closed. I’ve thought of CDs, DVDs, a hard drive, or a thumb drive — but they all have drawbacks, not the least of which is outdated technology 25 years from now. Maybe I’ll put a CD and a CD-ROM drive in the capsule and hope that the IDE interface is still around in 25 years? Ideas and feedback will be appreciated.”

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Bits: Why a New Browser From Microsoft Matters

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:10:55 +0000

IE 8 is Microsoft’s answer to the renewed browser challenge. Firefox is now a credible competitor to IE, with its share of the browser market having climbed to 19 percent.

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Bits: Cisco Buys E-mail and Calendaring Start-Up for $215 Million

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:10:51 +0000

Cisco announced Wednesday it will acquire PostPath, a venture-backed start-up that provides open-source email and calendaring software, for $215 million.

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Bits: AT&T Introduces New Data Plans for iPhone Users Roaming Abroad

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:10:47 +0000

AT&T added two new international data plans for U.S.-based iPhone users roaming overseas. One of the plans costs as much as the Apple iPhone handset.

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I.B.M.’s Server Market Lead Over H.P. Grows

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:02:43 +0000

U.S. computer group International Business Machines widened its market share lead over rival Hewlett-Packard in worldwide server shipments in the second quarter.

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The Energy Challenge: Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid’s Limits

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:54:41 +0000

Clean energy’s dirty secret is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.

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Dell Unveils New PCs Targeting Emerging Markets

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:46:39 +0000

Dell unveiled four low-cost computer models for China, India and other emerging economies in a new bid to tap the potential of high-growth markets outside the United States.

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Slate: Something Rotten at Apple?

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:43:58 +0000

Recent high-profile flops don’t have to be a problem for Apple, says Slate’s Farhad Manjoo, but the company’s unsympathetic response could cause customers to sour on the brand.

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Stunning Advance Allows for ‘Reprogramming’ of Adult Cells

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:41:48 +0000

Scientists have transformed one type of fully developed adult cell directly into another inside a living animal, a startling advance that could lead to cures for a plethora of illnesses and sidestep the political and ethical quagmires that have plagued embryonic stem cell research.

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Gold-medal cyclist leaned on Google Earth in training

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:40:06 +0000

Olympic-cycling gold medalist Kristin Armstrong this week described the role of the Google Earth application in her training for the event.

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Mozilla extension taps into typed commands

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:38:23 +0000

Commands that users type in Ubiquity, such as “map” and “e-mail,” help find resources on the Web and can gather information from those sources in one place.

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Microsoft Rinses SOAP Out of SQL Server 2008

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:35:48 +0000

Julie188 writes “A Microsoft SQL Server 2005 fan toppled over in surprise when he got this error message from SQL Server 2008 (he was running the SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor tool): ‘In SQL Server 2008, SQL Server native SOAP has been deprecated and will be removed in a future SQL Server release … Avoid use of SQL server native SOAP in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use it.’ No more SOAP-based Web services for your SQL Server database? Native XML was only added in v.2005 and was much ballyhooed at that time.”

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Zero Day Threat

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:33:55 +0000

Ben Rothke writes “Zero Day Threat: the Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity is an interesting and eye-opening look at how banks and credit card companies make ID theft and fraud rather elementary. But with all that, this book must be read in the larger context of how today’s society deals with, and is often oblivious to, risk. When is comes to risk, American society tolerates tens of thousands of drunk-driving deaths, gives millions in federal tobacco subsidies, and is oblivious about near-epidemics such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. With all that, it is doubtful that the myriad horror stories Zero Day Threat details will persuade Congress or the other players to do anything to curtail the problem with identity theft and internet fraud.” Keep reading for the rest of Ben’s review.

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Locked iPhones Can Be Unlocked Without Password

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:31:12 +0000

snydeq writes “Private information stored in Apple’s iPhone and protected by a lock code can be accessed by anyone with just a few button presses. Pressing the emergency call button at the unlock screen, followed by two taps on the home button, takes you to the iPhone’s private ‘favorites’ page without the need to enter the unlock code, MacRumors user greenmymac has found. If the owner of the phone has favorite entries in their address book containing URLs, e-mail addresses or mobile phone numbers, then those entries can be used to launch the browser, mail application or SMS software, and gain access to private Web favorites, e-mail messages, and text messages stored in the phone, again without entering the unlock code.”

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Compromised SSH Keys Lead To Linux Rootkit Attack

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:29:00 +0000

Tech Groupie writes “The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls ‘active attacks’ against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system, and then uses local kernel exploits to gain root access. Once root access has been obtained, a rootkit known as ‘phalanx2′ is installed.”

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Computer Virus Aboard the ISS

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:27:09 +0000

chrb writes “BBC News is reporting that laptops taken to the International Space Station by NASA astronauts are infected with the Gammima.AG worm. The laptops have no net connection; officials suspect the worm may have been transferred via a USB flash drive owned by an astronaut. NASA have said this isn’t the first time computer viruses had travelled into space.”

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Oracle integrates CRM On Demand with Siebel

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:24:56 +0000

Oracle has integrated its on-demand CRM product with Siebel CRM.

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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is icing, and more cake

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:23:11 +0000

Service Pack 1 finally includes the ADO.Net Entity Framework, the Entity Data Model and LINQ to Entities, InfoWorld’s reviewer explains.

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Microsoft Office Live Small Biz suffers outage, possibly lost e-mail

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:36 +0000

Some users of Microsoft’s Office Live Small Business have reported intermittent e-mail outages.

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Lockdown Is an Alarm and Security Camera for Your Laptop [Featured Mac Download]

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:35 +0000

Mac OS X only: Free application Lockdown is a security alarm for your Mac laptop, complete with remote arming and a security camera. Your Apple Remote handles the arming, and once armed, the…

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Microsoft OneNote is a Note-Taking Power Tool [Back To School]

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:34 +0000

Although being a student isn’t a requirement for using Microsoft’s note-taking application OneNote, the software’s robust data capture and collaboration components lend themselves well to an academic…

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Better GReader Updated [Lifehacker Code Update]

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:34 +0000

Just published a bug fix update to the Better GReader Firefox extension; if you’re using the excellent Minimalistic skin, you’ll want this upgrade, which fixes the “white page” bug. (Thanks to Scott…

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SpeedRead Increases Your Reading Pace, Retention [Featured Windows Download]

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:33 +0000

Windows only: Free application SpeedRead is designed to improve your reading speed and retention by quickly flashing a few words at a time on your screen in quick succession. You can adjust features…

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Top 10 Calendar Tricks [Lifehacker Top 10]

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:32 +0000

Software and webapps rock at being calendars: You can update them from any computer or your phone, they don’t have to triple-check when Columbus Day is, and they never get coffee stains on them. But…

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Control Your Computer with Shortcuts to Common Windows Tasks [Windows]

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:32 +0000

Many people don’t realize that rather than installing dozens of applications, you can control nearly any aspect of your computer with simple shortcuts that don’t take up any resources. You can even…

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Best Freebies of (2005-)2008 [Free]

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:31 +0000

Kiplinger’s runs down their favorite freebies of 2008, trotting out old chestnuts like your free annual credit report, free 411 directory assistance, the public library, and swap boards like…

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Agent Ransack Adds Regular Expression Power to Windows Search [Featured Windows Download]

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:30 +0000

Windows only: Free search app Agent Ransack is a tool worth checking out if you’ve got a file you just can’t find with Windows’ built-in search or other index-based apps, but you know a few details…

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Rebuild Your Resume with Five Simple Fixes [Job Search]

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:29 +0000

Once you’ve spotted a great job anywhere online and figured out how much moolah to ask for, you need to get your foot in the door. In most cases, your foot is your resume, and every person you’ve…

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Speed Up Your Vista Installation with vLite on a Flash Drive [Step By Step]

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:26 +0000

Sometimes the most effective way to clean up Windows is to just wipe your hard drive and start over with a fresh re-installation, and that process can be so long and tedious—unless you know the…

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IE8 Catches Up, Shows Improvements With Beta 2

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:11:04 +0000

Microsoft released the latest beta version of its next browser Wednesday. IE8 Beta 2 shows off some new features — some of which feel oddly familiar — as well as some innovations that make the browser easier to use for everyday surfers.

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Study: Grim outlook for U.S. IT spending

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:09:12 +0000

U.S. companies are reining in IT spending as the economy continues to show weakness, a new survey has found.

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Samsung plans to mass produce low-density laptop SSDs

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:06:33 +0000

Samsung today launched three new solid-state drives for low-cost PCs, saying the computers are driving explosive growth in sales of the drives.

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Cisco buys into e-mail with $215M PostPath acquisition

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:03:42 +0000

Cisco plans to add PostPath’s e-mail and calendaring capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform.

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Fujitsu readies eight-core Sparc64 chip

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:00:42 +0000

Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 server processor, a Fujitsu engineer said on Tuesday at the Hot Chips conference.

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Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:47:54 +0000

Bell Labs’ fundamental physics research lab, a Nobel Prize magnet for its countless contributions to computer science and technology, is shut down as its parent company shifts from basic science research to more marketable areas such as networking and nanotechnology.

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Massive iPhone Security Flaw Exposes All Private Data

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:35:43 +0000

A simple, two-step workaround makes it easy to bypass the iPhone 3G’s passcode lock, if you’re using version 2.0.2 of the iPhone operating system.

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Palm Treo Pro Fronts Handsome Styling, Half-Baked Touchscreen

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:26:04 +0000

The verdict is in for the Palm Treo Pro. It’s no Centro — and that’s a good thing. With forward-thinking mulitmedia features this is one of the best Palm products released in recent memory. But the half-baked touchscreen still needs a bit of work to get itself right.

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Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Mac

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:24:26 +0000

blackbearnh writes “It may make you feel very, very old, but the Macintosh will be turning 25 in January. As we approach this momentous anniversary, O’Reilly News had a talk with Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original Macintosh designers, about the long and storied history of the Mac. Hertzfeld, who tells the story of the Mac in his book A Revolution in the Valley, shares his thoughts about how the Mac has aged over time, how life might have been different if Steve Jobs had stayed on at Apple, and the differences between working for Apple, and for Google (his current employer.)” Read on below for a bit of what Hertzfeld had to say.

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Full Immersion Cooling Comes To Desktop PCs

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:22:38 +0000

mr_sifter writes “After three years of research and around £100,000 of R&D costs, UK-based Armari has unveiled its XCP prototype. It’s a full immersion liquid cooled PC which supports standard ATX components. Unlike conventional liquid cooled PCs, the components are all easy to swap in and out as they’re swimming in liquid, rather than under waterblocks. It also looks amazing, pumping around 70KG of electrically inert cooling fluid (salvaged from an old Cray) around its military grade perspex shell.”

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Capturing 3D Surfaces Simply With a Flash Camera

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:20:56 +0000

MojoKid writes with this excerpt from Hot Hardware (linking to a video demonstration): “Creating 3D maps and worlds can be extremely labor intensive and time consuming. Also, the final result might not be all that accurate or realistic. A new technique developed by scientists at The University of Manchester’s School of Computer Science and Dolby Canada, however, might make capturing depth and textures for 3D surfaces as simple as shooting two pictures with a digital camera — one with flash and one without. First an image of a surface is captured without flash. The problem is that the different colors of a surface also reflect light differently, making it difficult to determine if the brightness difference is a function of depth or color. By taking a second photo with flash, however, the accurate colors of all visible portions of the surface can be captured. The two captured images essentially become a reflectance map (albedo) and a depth map (height field).”

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