2003 March 29

“With the availability of Macromedia Flash Player 6 for Pocket PC 2002, developers can incorporate video and application components within Macromedia Flash MX to deliver rich Internet applications, as well as bring e-learning, rich media, and gaming content to devices.”

“With the release of version 0.6, a hush came over the Chimera announcements page until, much later, the truth emerged: a legal wrangle was holding things up. And not just any legal wrangle either. It was the name that was causing all the trouble, so no further versions would be released until a new name [...]

There is a new book being published by Random House and authored by David Kushner, about the creators of one of the most influential games in the gamming industry… No! Not Dead or Alive Volleyball, I am talking about the ever popular DooM, this book is based on the lives of 2 of its main [...]

The title here has more to do with what I am doing than what the site is doing, but it seemed appropriate. Quite a while back they published an article on windows forensics, the followed it up so it seemed appropriate for me to do so as well. So here is Part II. But wait [...]

“If you have logo or artwork on paper and you need to get it into Illustrator, you must see this video! This will also work with logos you have created in Photoshop and need to convert them to vector! (You can find the video on the home page / 20min 11mb / QT).”
This video will [...]

Well the price tag on this one definitely puts it in the drool-ware range (at least for me), but when this popped on the screen at work at least half the guys in my office were suddenly peering over my shoulder. Of course that may also have something to do with too many people and [...]

Originally read this story on Neowin, but I forgot to copy the URL (Doh!). However, I did remember to get the URLs for downloading a copy, so for those of you interested here you go.
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With Windows 2003 having just shipped to manufacturers this week, this may be just a little bit premature or perhaps just PR. Nevertheless, microsoft has a skills assessment drill for those of you interested in learning a bit about its new offering.

Enter your phone number in this format: 000-000-0000 into Google.com and they will give you back any websites with your phone number on them and also your address and two (2) maps to your house! For example, try President Bush at 202-456-1414.

A vulnerability in the default image viewer for one of the two major Linux desktop systems could allow an attacker to execute code on a computer running the Gnome software, security group Core Security Technologies said in an advisory on Friday.

You would think that the major Antivirus vendors would include Anti-Spyware detection algorithm’s. It’s a logical step in the evolution of protecting consumers from unwanted commercial spyware applications from spying on us. I personally think that it is more than likely a liability issue. As the AntiVirus Vendors would be eliminating others companies tools that [...]

Attention Major League Baseball fans: The 2003 MLB schedule has been posted for download. This site takes the pain out of adding sporting events (and holidays) to your Outlook calendar by putting them into a PST file for you to download. The instructions tell you to import but I just open it within Outlook and [...]

“‘google’ is a command-line interface to Google Search. It uses Aaron Straup Cope’s Net::Google library, which in turn, is an interface to Google’s SOAP API. You can download google-1.3 from your nearest CPAN mirror. To be able to use this tool, you first need to create an account with Google. It is free.”

Disney/Go/whatever-they-are-called-this-week has had inquiries about the search technology and patents left over from when they acquired Infoseek. According to the article, the last time the Infoseek spider did an index crawl was over two years ago. So while the search technology is useless, there’s probably something in the patents that Infoseek holds that might interest [...]

Gretchen’s Hypochondriac’s Calendar was close to the truth. The folks at Tech TV sent an often-used keyboard to the folks at UC Berkeley School of Public Health for testing. The results? While it didn’t have any E.coli or salmonella growing on it, it did have bacteria that could have included staphylococcus.
I can only imagine [...]