Thursday 27 December 2007
Kill Windows with the Blue Screen of Death in 3 Keystrokes
Thanks to a bit of keyboard foolery, you can create your own Windows BSOD in 3 simple keystrokes. It turns out this function was built into Windows for testing purposes, so it's not a bug, and it won't have any side effects.
Sunday 23 December 2007
24.com launches video sharing site PLAY
Friday 21 December 2007
Google's "Knol" Reinvents Wikipedia
Google appears to be reinventing Wikipedia with their new product that they call knol (not yet publicly available). In an attempt to gather human knowledge, Google will accept articles from users who will be credited with the article by name. If they want, they can allow ads to appear alongside the content and they will be getting a share of the profits if that"s the case. Other users will be allowed to rate, edit or comment on the articles.
Study - IT managers blamed for making staff ill
Overly authoritarian and bureaucratic IT managers are bad for morale and productivity and are making their staff sick.
Google 2007 Year-End Zeitgeist
Google's released their 2007 Zeitgeist, a compilation of the most popular search terms broken down by category. Coming in at #4 on the how to list? "How to hack."
Amazon opens testing for in-cloud database
Amazon.com has begun publicly testing a third element to its online computing services: a database capability called SimpleDB.
Study: 95% of all e-mail sent in 2007 was Spam
There was a time--2004 to be precise--when spam "only" consumed 70 percent of all e-mail. Those were the good old days.
Toshiba launching SCiB batteries in March: 5 min charge, 10 year lifespan
How does this sound: a battery capable of recharging to 90% in under 5 minutes while remaining useful for 10 years or more? Sounds like the stuff of jetpacks and food replicators right? Nope... March, 2008. It was a long, long time ago when we first brought you news of these so-called "Super Li-ion" batteries. In March of 2005 to be exact.
Top 10 Worst Computer Worms of All Time
The Internet is an Internet lover's paradise, a gamer's haven, a business's lifeline, and a hacker's playground. Over the past two decades, hundreds of worms have devastated the infrastructure of millions of computers around the world.
Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft
The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle.
Friday 14 December 2007
Pathetic state of affairs in South Africa
A very enlightening Blog-post by Stafford Massie (Google SA) about the pathetic state of affairs in South Africa:
- Transportation & Roads
- Energy
- Telecommunication
Sunday 09 December 2007
ShieldsUP! - A website to test your firewall
Free Internet security checkup and information service.
Use your iPod earphones as a MIC
My wife's laptop does not have a built-in microphone and she's always complaining when someone calls her on Skype (she has the same Skype account setup at home and the office and mostly receives calls at the office but sometimes people call her when she is logged in at home).
She does not want to carry around a microphone, so I suggested that she plug her iPod's headphones (which she almost always carries with her) into the MIC jack and use it as a microphone. The quality isn’t that great, but for emergencies its OK.
15 Foods That Actually Burn More Calories Than They Contain
If you've got a nasty snack habit that's tipping the scales to heavy, here's a list of 15 foods that burn more calories than they contain.
Java on the iPhone?
Sun's Terrence Barr, technical evangelist for the Java mobile and embedded community, is saying that he believes Apple's plans to release an SDK for iPhone in early 2008 may result in the open-source phoneME version of Java ME winding up on iPhone.
Friday 07 December 2007
TiVo to bust out of the living room and onto your PC
TiVo is poised to break out from the confines of the set-top box and into the PC. The DVR maker and Nero, creators of the popular CD- and DVD-burning software, are partnering to bring TiVo to upcoming versions of Nero.
VAVE100 Universal Remote Control with Windows Vista SideShow Technology
The VAVE100 Windows SideShow Vista Universal Remote Control provides direct access and complete control of home entertainment devices, the Windows Vista Media Center and the Windows SideShow.
Wednesday 05 December 2007
Study: stores put customer data at risk with poor WiFi security practices
Wireless security manufacturer AirDefense describes WEP Encryption as "one of the weakest protocols for wireless data encryption". The largest incident of consumer data theft to date is being blamed on WEP, which has been notoriously easy to hack since as far back as 2001.
Saturday 01 December 2007
The Klerksdorp Spheres
Over the last few decades, miners near Klerksdorp in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres.
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