Prediction: 2007 will find us getting more frustrated as tech support continues to disappoint one and all. All our gadgets will not save us from ourselves, from our tech support, from terrible manuals, from software which messes up hardware, from new-fangled operating systems which promise everything and deliver little or nothing or something we never […]
Ever wanted to snoop into your own DNA and find out more about your ancestors: With the power of Genetrack’s DNA Ancestry Project, you can. Do your own CSI investigation on yourself or your friends. Genealogy buffs will relish receiving such a unique, geeky and all-time privacy invading gift. [DNA Ancestry Project] [Press Release […]
“Some companies are pouring glue into USB ports to disable them.” (and this passes for tech support.) [CNET news.com, The A to Z of Security]
This reminds me of a true story I heard from a fellow ‘tech.’ He told me how he instructed a client by phone: ‘just put the board in a free slot […]
VH1 and Intel present another “Show Us Your Junk” contest. You may win a $10,000 prize and a brand new laptop computer powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor.Winners appear in “Web Junk 20″ on December 15th and the grand prize winner will be revealed during the season finale on December 22nd. To […]
” Last week, security researcher HD Moore, co-creator of the Metasploit Framework penetration testing tool, began posting one kernel bug each day.” [Tech Web News: OS Bug Project]
How’s H. D. Moore doing? You guessed it: he’s making good on his promise: 1 Mac OS X, 1 Windows, 2 Linux, 1 Free BDS, 1 Solaris 10… […]
Funny:
Configure your computer with southern humor: “Winders 2005″ [Lorelle, Photography and Travel… ]
Best of secretGeek: Silliest User Interface: Windows Search and more
Get paid $75 to take a quick survey from Google, IF they pick you to participate [ hey, the FAQ is funny, [Yahoo Fan Club via Digital Point Forums]
Scary:
Pentagon gathering data on people from […]
“An FBI computer consultant, who said he was frustrated by bureaucratic delays… , was able to hack into the files surreptitiously via the FBI director’s secret password, which the consultant figured out using software found on the Internet.” [Aberdeen News]
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Run, don’t walk and get yourself a ‘private phone number!’ I’ve been using my own private phone number for months and everything NetZero says about is true:
it’s 100% free, easy to use
you get your own phone number
all incoming calls are recorded for you to call back later
you also receive the phone number, time of day, […]
For some months, I’ve been using Cropper, a neat little image capture program, freely offered by Brian Scott. The neat thing about this little image capture program is its amazing ability to remain unobtrusive, yet powerful.
Brian has included additional plugins for download which extend this screen capture program’s ability to speed your work online: […]
Fire up your laptop lately?
Dell laptop catches fire at Yahoo research building. [TG Daily] Yahoo flickr photos of toasted laptops (only 34 photos so far). Crikey, there’s almost 3,000 articles on Google News about exploding and burning Dells. Every time we buy a new computer, something like this happens. Dell has company: Sony, Toshiba […]
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