Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
iPhone 2.0 only: Want to save that string of flirty text messages for posterity (or evidence)? While there's no super-easy way to get your SMS history off your iPhone, with some elbow grease it's possible. While this method is a bit complicated and more proof of concept than anything ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
CNET blogger Gordon Haff found that purchasing electronics cables online is consistently and significantly cheaper than at brick retail stores, and speculates all the possible reasons why—like the fact that consumers are less likely to comparison shop when they're dying to hook up the shiny new Thingamabob 5000 they just ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Since the launch of the iPhone 3G, the past couple of weeks have been prime time for companies to launch new mobile sites. Digg is taking advantage of the new surge of interest in mobile applications to reveal its upgraded mobile version of DiggContinue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Handy do-it-yourselfer computerguru365 turned a network-capable laser printer into a wireless printer by mounting a small Wi-Fi router inside its case. This is a really cool mod: After installing a network card, he found space inside the printer to mount a small router (running <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/router/hack-attack-turn-your-60-router-into-a-600-router-178132Continue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The data loss prevention (DLP) market continues to consolidate. McAfee on Thursday said it agreed to acquire privately owned DLP company Reconnex for $46 million in cash. Last year, EMC/RSA acquired Tablus and Symantec acquired Vontu.Data protection is the top concern for CISOs, “but today’s DLP solutions take too ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
AirBed & Breakfast made its debut earlier this spring when it introduced itself as a service that connects spare rooms with people in need of a place to sleep. With an event as large as SXSW, hotel prices often skyrocket and are usually sold out as the event approaches. ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen spoke to an appreciative crowd at the USENIX Security Symposium this week in San Jose. The state’s top elections official earned a long round of applause from the techie crowd after her opening keynote, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Popular social bookmarking site del.icio.us is now Delicious.com and it's sporting a brand new look and a speedier backend. No more URL confusion! Watch a quick video of the transformation.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Outlook users, if you find yourself entering the same things into email messages, you should take a look at the Quick Parts feature, which saves snippets of both text and images for easy reuse. While Gina briefly mentioned this feature in her guide to Tweaking Outlook to empty your ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
earfl is like Twitter for phone calls. Instead of sending in an SMS update, you can just dial a number and say a little something. The recording will be linked to your account on the Web, and can then be shared with family and friends. Attach an ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
At the USENIX Security Symposium in San Jose on Wednesday, a Google researcher presented a study on the pervasiveness of drive-by-downloads on the Internet, and the findings were unsettling, to say the least. Over a 10-month period last year, researchers analyzed 66 million URLs and detected more than 3 million ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
In this week’s Mashable Rocks series, we feature FriendFeed, a lifestreaming application we’ve covered many times. Mashable is also pleased to introduce integration of FriendFeed in our blog posts, meaning that you can now leave comments on FriendFeed and have them show up on Mashable beneath the corresponding storyContinue ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
If you're constantly logging into a remote server using SSH and you're sick of typing your password every time, tech site Webmonkey details how to save time without sacrificing security. Using SSH-Agent, a utility that acts as a broker between your local machine and remote machine, you can log in ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Create a professional, consistent user interface with the Browser-Based Application Toolkit, a Web presentation framework with extendible building blocks. The toolkit’s framework can be used to rapidly build GUIs that not only mimic business processes, but that implement IBM's standards for accessibility and national language enablement.Continue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Previously mentioned Photoshop Express offers more web-based image management and editing features, like drag and drop upload (via an Adobe AIR app), tags to organize your photos, and slideshows put to music (in addition to <a href="http://lifehackerContinue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Socialmedian, a social news site that we’ve tracked the progress of over the past few months, is now open to everyone.
While a lot of the bases have been covered in our previous coverage, give Socialmedian credit for a nicely paced launch and responsiveness to its alpha usersContinue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Vigster is a new gaming community that launches to the public today, and it’s setting out to become an online resource for video game lovers everywhere. Similar in format to Shelfari, users can create a virtual representation of their game “shelf” displaying games they own, have played, and would ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
UK residents have lived under the watchful eye of cameras for a while now, but still Google’s Street View initiative, an effort to photograph roadways and any structures adjacent to the tarmac, both east and west of the Atlantic, was required to undergo examination by the Information Commissioner after hearing ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Mac OS X only: VMware releases a new beta of Fusion 2.0, the virtual machine software for Mac. We were impressed with our test drive of beta 1, and beta 2 adds a few more promising features, like: automatic virtual machine snapshots (for easy rollback in case something goes ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Google announces you might start seeing a new message the top of web searches, which tell you how your location (based on IP address), recent searches, and web history adjust the results you get. Creepy or helpful? Both, kindaContinue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
If you’ve been hearing about NBC’s efforts to deliver on-the-go video content from the Olympic Games next month, and would like to watch downloads through a Windows Vista Media Center machine, you’re in luck. NBC is now enabling its <a href="http://wwwContinue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
It’s official: lifestreaming is going to become a part of every major social network on the Web (or so it would seem). The latest to add the feature is AIM, the world’s largest instant messaging network, who has just launched BuddyUpdates.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Researcher to demonstrate hacking methods that enable malware authors to shield their programs from analysis.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Two researchers call Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates a Band-Aid approach, and share their research of the phishing underground.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Highly predictive blacklisting produces custom lists that researchers say provide more effective threat intelligence.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details hereContinue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Everywhere I turn, Netflix is in the news lately. It all started a few months back when it announced that it would start streaming its movies online. And although I was originally excited to hear that news, it turned out to be a joke: the movies suck.
Then, Netflix ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I use spider monkey or rhino to decode javascripts. both are nice tools.in rhino use version 1.6 as for 1.7 i am still not able to figure out how to run GUI,may be it is missing some files?
sans has posted a nice diary here.i m going to show you two ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Aladdin Knowledge Systems agreed to acquire Secure Computing’s Secure SafeWord two-factor authentication business Wednesday for $65 million.The deal adds to Aladdin’s strong authentication eToken product line and gives it a network of channel partners. Secure Computing’s president and CEO Daniel Ryan said the sale of SafeWord allows the company to ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Despite the wealth of information a Google search box puts at our fingertips, good old-fashioned note-taking is still one of the best ways to build a personal knowledge databaseContinue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
It seems like every culture in every generation has its great battle… its seemingly insuperable foe. For those of us nerds who actually want to use our computers efficiently, that foe is spam. A slimy yet invisible army, spammers develop news ways every day to cross our lines of ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Got yourself (or a friend) one of those shiny new digital, wireless-capable picture frames? Windows Live FrameIt combines multiple RSS feeds, along with the pictures from any web site, into a single, frame-friendly feed. As the Digital Inspiration blog points out, however, the resulting output also lets you check to ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The ReadWriteWeb site lists a few webapp combinations that add up to more than the sums of their parts. In the list: Jott & EverNote (as guest Brad Isaac detailed for us), AideRSS with the ticker-display Snackr, Facebook filtered through <a href="http://wwwContinue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
If you’re logged into the new Facebook, you might notice a different look to your News Feed this morning. The social network has added filters, allowing you to tab between your friend’s Status Updates, Photos, and Posted Items, while aggregating all of them under a default “Top Stories” tab. ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Social media measurement is one of those topics about which everyone has an opinion, but nobody agrees on the solution. The question about how to measure the return on investment (ROI) for social media participation comes up in every workshop I deliver, as definitive, statistic-based metrics seem to be ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Your Truman Show, the video blogging and aggregation network that launched its VideoMap earlier this year, is moving further into the advertising realm with the introduction of a new spin-off service called TagliftContinue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
One Hundred Push Ups Takes You from Zero to a Hundred in Six Weeks"Web site One Hundred Push Ups details a training plan for going from 0 to 100 push-ups in a matter of six weeks. We've discussed why the push-up belongs in your fitness routine, but we didn't offer ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Free Firefox extension CyberSearch, which Adam detailed earlier this month, has added a few new features that make the AwesomeBar-enhancing search tool much more convenient for avid Firefox usersContinue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The Digital Inspiration blog points out that combining Gmail's filters, easy email (or mailto:) links, and the mass familiarity with email makes it easy to conduct your own polls amongst contact groups. Simply set up question responses with answers that match <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/instant-disposable-gmail-addresses-144397Continue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The Digital Inspiration blog points out that combining Gmail's filters, easy email (or mailto:) links, and the mass familiarity with email makes it easy to conduct your own polls amongst contact groups. Simply set up question responses with answers that match <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/instant-disposable-gmail-addresses-144397Continue Reading....
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application 1Password makes logging into secure sites much easier on the iPhone's mobile Safari browser by creating a double-protected mini-database of your passwords. The app won't auto-fill login forms in Safari, but provides its own mini-browser that plugs in your credentials into any site's login formContinue ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 5.2 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Research shows that classic career advice—"find a way to get paid to do what you love"—may be way off the mark. The Washington Post's Shankar Vedantam reports that paychecks and pink slips aren't good long-term motivators: Beliefs about the utility of rewards and punishments in motivating human behavior are deeply ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Don’t call it a comeback! Less than 48 hours after voluntarily shutting down Scrabulous at the behest of Hasbro, the game’s creators have relaunched the popular application under the name Wordscraper. <img src="http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/wordscraper-board2Continue Reading....
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
After making a few small tweaks to its interface yesterday, Google Maps also updated the options for printed directions. The new version lets you toggle between text only, map view, or street view for each step of your directions, giving you more details when you need them and fewer when ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
There are tons of open source applications out there, from operating systems to word processors to graphics programs and more. But, it’s often hard to find manuals or other documentation beyond what the developers have written (which, while technically correct, doesn’t always cover the nuances of actually using the program)Continue ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Web site WebToMail sends full web pages to your email on demand. Why? Let's say, for example, you're sitting behind a nasty internet filter at work that won't even let you access your friendly, productivity-enhancing Lifehacker. Just fire off an email to send@webtomail.co.cc with the URL of the web ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Betaworks, a type of incubator program based in New York, has just released the public beta of a simply integrated chat tool for site owners, called Firefly. The simplicity comes by way of no download requirements for end users. If they happen to be on a Firefly-enabled site, ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Weblog Apartment Therapy describes how to create a table of contents for your file cabinets to help make your filing system cleaner and easier to use. It's actually a very simple idea: You just print the different folder tab names of your file cabinet onto a piece of paper you ...
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