Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
All of us here at Lifehacker wish you a happy, fun, and safe New Year. Thanks for a great year! Until we meet again, have a look back at some of the best of 2007. See you in 2008!
Lifehacker's 2007 Software Superlatives"Who had the Most Obnoxious Icon, ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
You're no doubt aware of how easy it is to let work and play bleed into one another—especially if you use the same computer for both. Weblog Hack Your Day suggests a simple-yet-effective solution: Create distinct work/play computing boundaries with different user identitiesContinue Reading....
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Got a new MP3 player and decided it's time to gussy up your music library with high quality album art? Web site AlbumArt offers lightning fast search results for CD and DVD cover art for an impressively wide range of artists and albumsContinue Reading....
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Rather than send your Christmas tree to the landfill (where it takes forever to decay), turn that tree into mulch and give Mother Nature a helping hand. [via]
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
If you've returned home from the holidays having evangelized to your friends and family about the wonders of Firefox, you'll be thrilled to know that Mozilla has just launched a new live chat support serviceContinue Reading....
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Mac OS X only: AppleScripter John Maisey offers an iCal utility that deletes duplicate events in iCal calendars. If one too many sync operations left your calendars with multiple instances of the same event, the Delete iCal Duplicates script will clean those up for youContinue Reading....
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Lose weight. Save money. Quit smoking. Get fit. Rule the world. Is this what your New Year's resolution list looks like? (It did, for many of you, last year.) We spend all day yapping about the ways you can improve your life, and ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Having web access on your cell phone can be convenient, but only if it doesn't take you 2 minutes to navigate to Wikipedia and type in "Auld Lang SyneContinue Reading....
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Starting tomorrow, spare lithium batteries will be banned from checked airline luggage. But two spares of most standard battery types can still be brought in carry-on bags, in clear baggies.
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
New voice-to-text reminder service reQall is more than a little bit like the better-known <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/voicemail/leave-yourself-a-text-message-with-jott-233164Continue Reading....
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
The New York Times' Career Couch section offers up a handy guide to the major do's and dont's of negotiating a raise during or after a year-end performance reviewContinue Reading....
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Robert Scoble today posted his commentary on the whole Perez Hilton thing. I’ve been withholding comment on it for a little bit while I did a bit of research on they whys and hows of exactly where he screwed upContinue Reading....
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Private Equity Hub is reporting that AOL has finally completed the acquisition of online advertising company Quigo. Quigo is a provider of contextual advertising on third-party publisher Websites, much like AdSense and Yahoo Publisher NetworkContinue Reading....
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
New Year’s Eve is only hours away for many readers, and unless you plan on sitting in your house watching the ball drop on television (or you could watch Radiohead drop an album), you may want to check out this short list of web-based tools for finding, planning and getting ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks alerted his readers about a tip he received from an anonymous source regarding a supposed “Real Working Demo of AndroidContinue Reading....
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Hoosgot (pronounced “Who’s got”… aren’t they clever) is a supposed replacement for the missing LazyWeb in your life.
David Sifry, the founder of Technorati, apparently cobbled this together over the past few daysContinue Reading....
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
When we launched our Lifehacker Top 10 series back in March we had no idea what a big hit it would be. That Letterman guy's really onto something! While we're milking this whole "best of 2007 list" thing, we compiled the top 20 most-viewed Lifehacker Top 10 lists of ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
It happens sooner or later: our parents grow older and we're challenged with the task of choosing the best care for our loved ones. The AGIS Carestation blog suggests a four-step plan to prepare for caregiving. First, understand your parent's situation and take care of any immediate concerns. ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
If keeping a cleaner household is on your list of things to do for 2008, you might want to get started by building up a must-have list of cleaning equipmentContinue Reading....
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
The twelfth part of the C# Object-Oriented Programming tutorial completes the investigation of operator overloading in C#. This article describes the process for overloading conversion operators to allow implicit and explicit casting between data types.Continue Reading....
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
In just two short days the New Year is upon us, a time of relentless weight loss product commercials and self-improvement talk. Personally, I love to make resolutionsContinue Reading....
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Tomorrow's your last chance to donate to charity in 2007, and if you don't know where to find the charities that are doing the best job for the cause you care about, check out independent evaluator Charity NavigatorContinue Reading....
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Tomorrow's your last chance to donate to charity in 2007, and if you don't know where to find the charities that are doing the best job for the cause you care about, check out independent evaluator Charity NavigatorContinue Reading....
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Have you opened your refrigerator's crisper drawer lately? If not, chances are that the fruit and veggies you've stored in there may be moldy. Perhaps, according to the Unclutterer weblog, it's better to look for more ideal options to store your perishablesContinue Reading....
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Living healthier and longer doesn't have to mean salads and treadmills. Behavior expert Mark Stibich recommends a few "fun" healthy additions to your habits and diet, like drinking red wine, eating dark chocolate, smiling (even when you don't want to), sleeping enough, and having more sexContinue Reading....
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Are you celebrating New Years with a nice dinner party? Dress up your table with affordable and elegant centerpieces or table-settings that show some creativityContinue Reading....
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
For those of you haven’t looked outside, it’s winter. While I find snow a huge hassle, some people love it and live for those precious white flaes to hit their favorite slope. We’ve gathered together 20+ sites to help you get ready for your next skiing or snowboarding ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
The answer is: it depends.
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Google has created one of the most powerful search tools in the history of Web humanity. One of its goals along the way was to archive all of human knowledge. Another was to not be evil.
But the company discovered that at the intersection of archiving all human knowledge and not ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
The first release of SWFIntruder has been released today by Stefano Di Paola, CTO of Minded Security. SWFIntruder (pronounced Swiff Intruder) is the first tool specifically developed for analyzing and testing security of Flash applications at runtime. It helps to find flaws in Flash applications using the methodology originally described ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
We know that CSRF is bad, and that if your application is performing an important action to utilize a random token associated with the users session. I started thinking a bit about CSRF and timing attacks, Jeremiah Grossman's intranet scanning research and started thinking 'csrf'able login forms + timing attacks ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
According to the Squirrelmail website some of the packages available for download on their site had been modified by an outside intruder. If you are running 1.4.11 or 1.4.12 you are urged to upgrade immediately. From their site
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
"So how did this happen? The server itself is quite well hardened, but the web forum software had an unannounced security patch silently released by the vendor nine days ago. The defacement gang learned of the vulnerability and went through the net searching for vulnerable forums and changed the front ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
This mish-mash of security is the basis of Web login vulnerabilities and why passwords are often easily cracked. Be it form-based, HTTP Basic, or NT LAN Manager (NTLM) (the three main types of authentication that most applications use), any of them can be cracked when proper login controls are not ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
This post is a result of ideas and tools developed during the review of client-side applications that use the XMPP protocol to communicate with a server (opening a raw socket, not using HTTP as a transport).
The only way we could think of getting our hands on the communication was to ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
In sports, it's pretty much accepted wisdom that home teams have the advantage; that's why teams with winning records on the road do so well in the playoffs. But for some reason we rarely think about "the home field advantage" when we look at defending our networks. After all, the ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
It's been less than 24 hours since the former Prime Minister of Pakistan was assassinated. As expected, the malware authors and distributors have already begun exploiting the morbid curiosity about Benazir Bhutto's death as a lure to spread their malice.
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
How to Track Down Anyone Online"When you're trying to find someone online, Google's not the only game in town."<a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/the-20-best-ipod-utilities-329507Continue Reading....
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
What is the true measure of your social graph? If you ask Google, the answer is found in your contact database. In further moves designed to create a defacto social network, it was discovered by the source code sleuthings of Ionut Alex Chitu of Google Operating System blog that <a ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Steven Hodson asks today if 2008 will end up being the death knell of the RIAA:
I realize lots of folks have been predicting the imminent demise of the RIAA and the music industry since the inception of Napster and yet both are still here and still treating legitimate customers as ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
In what has to be one of the more brilliant political marketing moves of the century, Governor Mike Huckabee has chosen for the spokesperson for his campaign the legendary fighter Chuck Norris (although some would say that Huckabee didn’t choose Norris, Norris simply told him and America how it was ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
LimeWire has picked up popularity over the years since the death of Napster (the free, arguably illegal version anyhow), and the tendency for KaZaA users to get sued for file sharingContinue Reading....
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
SpiralFrog, the ad-supported music service, has secured $2 million in funding through the private placement of Senior Secured Exchangeable NotesContinue Reading....
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Are the holidays causing an uncontrollable noisy ruckus in your house? Maybe it's time to calm everyone down. WikiHow explains ways to achieve the much-needed peace that should overcome your humble abode. What's causing the havoc? Is it late-night phone calls or unannounced visitors at inopportune times? It may be ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Webapp Flight Wait takes the guesswork out of flight tracking by providing you with a map of FAA flight delays in real time. Simply input the city or airport code and let Flight Wait determine whether there are any traffic delays that you may need to be aware ofContinue Reading....
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
If you seem to have trouble waking up in the morning, you're not alone. The How to Wake Up Early website is dedicated to tips and tricks to prevent you from oversleeping and to get the most out of your dayContinue Reading....
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Got a pressing headache? How about an aching sunburn? Prevention magazine asked seven experts for their home remedies to cure common health concernsContinue Reading....
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
2007 is quickly coming to a close, and it’s time to do all of those things you’ve been meaning to do all year long. We’ve put together a checklist to help you along, but we can’t do it all for you, so you best get cracking before another year ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
In our daily work with computers, we constantly deal with applications, which seem absolutely necessary. Many of these applications are supplied with operating system and became standard because of a lack of choice.read moreContinue Reading....
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Not that we need a big reprieve from the heavy news cycle this week. It was a pretty easy week, as far as that goes. Still, while the blogosphere might have rested on its laurels, the criminals of the social media space certainly did notContinue Reading....
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