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It's time to bury RSS

It's time to bury RSSInformation overloadIt doesn't matter how you slice or dice it - 743 news feeds every day is just too much to digest. Just what the heck are you trying to do here? Maybe if you had the input jack in your neck that you could plug...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, OPML, RSS, Reading, Reading Lists

Discussion threads 2006-01-03

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Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?

Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?AVG Freeware Ain't So Free After All...Man, am I shocked that AVG is doing this. Of course I don't use the product but have made recommendations in the past to folks who could not afford to purchase good...

Tags: Scanners, Web browsers, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Badware, server log, AVG, AVG LinkScanner

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?

The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG.  Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer.  AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer.  This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...

Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!

Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!Airport SecurityI'm fairly sure if anyone was to see me naked... their eyeballs would no longer function anyway. I say go ahead, it's more a punishment for them than me. But I can certainly understand why many people would find...

Tags: airport security, body scanners!, scannerS!, Nate

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Q'n'A: Are Youtube users are royally screwed?

I've been reading the headlines today, and the main headlines on most of the top technology websites are about the YouTube/Google/Viacom saga. I'd like to call this: Youglecomgate, a potentially volatile situation hovers over the midst of everyone who has been on YouTube ever, so that's probably the majority of...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Internet, Networking, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-03

YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose

Updated: The latest battle in Google's ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant's search code and other critical...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., IP, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

MS Word Extract E-Mail Addresses from Multiple Fil (exe)

If you want to know how to extract e-mail addresses from multiple ms word documents/files, then this software is for you! With this software, you can Easily select a number of ms word documents to get the e-mail addresses from. The software will then go through each msword document and...

Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Address, File Splitter, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-07-03

OrthoGraph Inventory (msi)

OrthoGraph Inventory is dedicated to asset inventory and data acquisition using a Windows Mobile personal data assistant PDA. It can collect information on site with the control of fields, typified data, and fixed lists while enabling users to make measurements. It supports bluetooth barcode readers. The system generates XML, XLS,...

Tags: Asset, OrthoGraph, OrthoGraph Inventory, Asset Management, CAD, Databases, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-07-03

SmartTools (exe)

SmartTools was planned for a complete check and management of the fitness-wellness clubs. At the same time the smaller fitness clubs can apply to the workplaces, employees' checking, to increase of their income and the optimization of marketing actions. The most important viewpoint was the easy manageability at the time...

Tags: Club, Warex, Disaster Recovery, Marketing Research, Backups, Data Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-03

wReplace (exe)

Which allows you to change/replace multiple letters and phrases at a time. It is easy to create and save lists of changes/replacements, so that you can reuse them. wReplace resembles Notepad. Like Notepad, it works with plain text Unicode files. Applications: Character conversion, Romanization latinisation, Transliteration, Cyrillization, Transcription phonemic orthography,...

Tags: Conversion, SharkTime, wReplace

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Philips GoGear SA2825 (2GB)

The GoGear SA2825 is one of Philips' most attractive and compact MP3 players. Available in only one color silver and one capacity (2GB), the GoGear SA2825 ($49) offers a healthy amount of features at an affordable price.DesignMeasuring 1.5 inches square and a slender 0.5 inch thick, the GoGear SA2825 is...

Tags: Digital music, Media players, Digital media, Philips Electronics N.V., GoGear SA2825

Product reviews 2008-07-02

Multiple Facebook vulnerabilities reported on Full-Disclosure

Jouko Pynnonen posted a message to the Full-Disclosure mailing list today, citing multiple "script injection" vulnerabilities within Facebook.  I'm not sure if this is a surprise to anybody out there, it's certainly not to me, as numerous web applications have major problems with Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities, but I think this...

Tags: Facebook, Vulnerability, XSS, JavaScript, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Sandbox, JS, Canvas Page, Web Browsers, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-02

300 Lithuanian sites hacked by Russian hackers

A recently accepted legislation in Lithuania banning communist symbols across Lithuania, has prompted Pro-Russian hackers to start defacing Lithuanian sites, an indication of the upcoming attack was detected last week with active discussions around Russian forums greatly reminding us of the Russia vs Estonia cyberattack sparkled due to the removal...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Hacking, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Laser-aided software for tunnel construction

Laser-aided software for tunnel constructionvisualization in civil engineeringi understand importance of visualization in engineering but if i remember surveying principles it all depends on the precision provided by actual devices not the quality of the software putting it all together so it looks niceso if device used provides you with...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, laser

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

What to do with your first generation iPhone (updated)

With the launch of the iPhone 3G a little over a week away and new rate plans published many people are wondering what to do with their first generation iPhones. An AppleInsider story lists a bunch of options including handing it down to a family member or...

Tags: Apple iPhone, First-generation, 3G, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Digital Music, Cellular Phones, Digital Media, Wi-Fi, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Microsoft Equipt: student productivity rise likely?

Probably not. But it's not a bad thing Microsoft have done, and it really shows that they're committed to this "student malarkey" we have going. Today, they announced that project "Albany", now called Microsoft Equipt, has been released into the wild, for the masses who want an all-round suite of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-02

What MP3 player and mobile phone sound the best to you?

I enjoy listening to music during my commute, while working out, and at other times throughout the day and most often use whatever mobile phone I happen to have to listen to those tunes. I also use dedicated MP3 players from time to time and Steve Laser recently approached me...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, MP3 Player, Cell Phone, MP3, Digital Music, Digital Media, Media Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain

Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gainRE: Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gainbut what is the point of declaring that the acquisition of a tiny, unproven, high-experimental technology software company is going to beat or not beat Google? it's totally absurd.Q&A vs Semantic searchPowerset will drown inside of MSFT and just burn $.The...

Tags: Google Inc., Powerset, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests

Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading, reported on research conducted by Joshua Perrymon, hacking director for PacketFocus Security Solutions and CEO of RedFlag Security, who has been performing social engineering exploits for numerous clients in the past year and has apparently stolen thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. ...

Tags: Social Engineering, Identity, Dark Reading Article, Identity Theft, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-01