2003 June

Overture has released a new ad service, some what similar to Google’s ad placement service. This enables it to put ads on partner sites like Yahoo and MSN.

AOL is providing client to client encryption in AIM 5.2. Encryption costs $9.95 a year for individuals, but AOL also sells certificates in bulk to companies.

“Using NewsGator and other tools, Triple Point Technology has transformed the way they share information within the enterprise. From critical build and release notifications, to internal publishing and collaboration, publishing via RSS has dramatically changed their information landscape. NewsGator provides seamless access to this information, all while preserving the familiar user experience of Microsoft Outlook.” […]

ISO Recorder Power Toy is a UI component that allows you to use CD-Recording capabilities of Windows XP to record and create ISO images.

“I am Mr. Laurent Mpeti Kabila, a senior assistant leader of the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone.
I present to you an urgent and confidential request: I request your attendance at The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference. This is an excellent opportunity to meet your distinguished colleagues, learn new marketing techniques, and spend your hard-earned […]

Thank god for Lavasoft! Their latest free offering, Ad-aware 6 has proved to be a godsend this week. A guy at work brought in his college-age daughter’s laptop to me, saying it was being painfully slow and asked me if I could optimize it. I said ’sure’, and spent 3 days rooting out the […]

“THE Vatican has taken on a team of experts to protect the pope’s website, which is attacked by some 10,000 viruses a month and at least 30 mainly-American hackers every day.”
Before you start to imagine the Pope and his team, with a divine decree of “Thou Shalt Not SPAM”, rest assured he is following the […]

An Indian firm, Mistral, on Wednesday announced it had developed a cheap handheld device.
“The final product sold in the market would cost about $200 dollars, $300 less than the competitors such as Compaq or Palm, said Mistral president, Anees Ahmed.”

“… a virtual political event, and perhaps the biggest, was an online poll last week by the liberal website MoveOn.org. It invited its 1.4 million members to vote for one of the nine Democratic presidential candidates in a controlled balloting. The result was a virtual “primary” with more votes than the party could muster in […]

With the announcement of Apple’s new PowerMac G5, Adobe has announced that it will be releasing a plug-in for Photoshop 7.0 that will enhance the performance of the graphics operations on a G5 considerably.

“Online dating, once viewed as a refuge for the socially inept, is rapidly becoming a fixture of single life for adults of all ages, backgrounds and interests.”

The FTC site that lets people opt out of telemarketing calls is getting 1,000 registrations per second!
That’s the beauty of the net; hitting back at technology, with technogy!

“When you have a teenager on the rampage, who are you going to turn to? In America, parents send their troubled offspring to Jamaica’s Tranquility Bay - a ‘behaviour-modification centre’ which charges $40,000 a year to ‘cure’ them. Decca Aitkenhead, the first journalist to gain access to the centre in five years, wonders if there […]

HDCleaner clears the fixed disk and removes unnecessary file garbage from all available drives. The most important groups of files, about BAK, CHK, GID, ~ * *, TMP, are before-configured already and need to be only selected. After the selection of the desired drives HDCleaner starts scanning and searches the data. Individual files can be […]

You don’t need to install anything, you don’t even need an harddisk to run a whole free software operating system running out of the box on your PC! Download the ISO-image, burn your own CD, reboot your machine and you’ll get back true love ;^)
Dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and […]

It all originated from a college video class - Spring quarter of 2002. Casey needed to film a full story within a 60 second timeline. That film was Howdy. Casey recruited Beau to help create a story and be the main talent.
They filmed it on Casey’s 3 year old Sony Handycam, and edited with Adobe […]

“We got to take an early prototype of the Treo 600 for a test run. The hardware was close to the final version, but much of the software still needed tweaking. Still, after about a day of using the device for Web browsing, e-mailing, making phone calls, and taking pictures, we came away impressed. Handspring […]

Ad-Rage is a popup window killer that requires no configuration. It compares the size of the browser window you open to the sizes of other windows that open.

The biggest danger of hackers comes not from massive coding assaults but smiles and conversations.
Take it from Frank Abagnale Jr., the scheming boy wonder turned FBI instructor whose life of deception spawned a book and Steven Spielberg movie, “Catch Me if You Can.”

Fiodor Sorex writes:
One of the largest difficulties in migrating away from Windows to Linux is the lack of comparable software. Newbies usually search for analogs of Windows software for Linux, and advanced Linux-users cannot answer their questions since they often don’t know too much about Windows :). This list of equivalents / replacements / analogs […]