2003 November

Faced with demands by national retailers under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove Thanksgiving sales information from its web site for the second year in a row, FatWallet, Inc. filed a lawsuit yesterday in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois seeking a declaration that these demands constitute an abuse […]

Logitech MouseWare 9.79 build 019
This is an automated self-installer of Logitech MouseWare. For additional details please refer to the README file included in this release.
MouseWare uses a CHM-based Help file and Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher must be installed to view the Help file correctly. If you are using a release prior to 4.01, please […]

Apple Computer has been decidedly absent from the tablet game. In part, this has to do with the failure of the Newton, which will always be associated in the mind of Steve Jobs with his former friend and nemesis John Sculley. “Real computers have keyboards,” Steve has said a zillion times, and he’ll mean it […]

The K-Lite Codec Pack contains a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and decode (play) audio and video. The basic version contains all the codecs that are needed for playing most movies that can be downloaded from the Internet. The full version has some extra codecs which are used less […]

Get all the Mario crew in these cool japanese papercraft models that you can printout, cut and assemble.
Get ‘em here @ GotOrion

Some of you might be wondering why I’m writing about TiVo. After all, it’s old hat right? Well, not everybody has had direct experience with TiVo or PVR technology. Some folks haven’t decided whether or not they even need one. But if you spend any time watching TV and don’t have TiVo yet, the time […]

A word of warning for all you holiday buyers: be sure to read the latest return policies at your local electronics reseller. I picked up a Veo Observer networked webcam to use as a baby-cam a few weeks ago at CompUSA. Unfortunately it doesn’t work in low-light like it’s supposed to, and the frame rate […]

Those who use MovableType for blogging might want to download the Moveable Type Spam Vulnerability Patch to stop spammers from sending spam via mt-send-entry.cgi.

RoboGEO is Windows software that georeferences digital images, allowing you to permanently embed latitude, longitude and altitude information within the image.

Palm Font Converters are utilities to manipulate Palm fonts, in v1 and v2 formats: afnx, nfnt (lo/hi/both densities), NFNT, conversion from Type 1/TrueType/BDF/PCF/etc. Anti-aliased font support. Includes Plucker (anti-aliased and normal) font generator GUI. FreeType2 based.

jsSimon is a Javascript remake of the classic electronic "repeat after me" game, Simon. The computer displays a pattern of colors and sound and you repeat it, each time adding another color and getting faster.
Oh, noooooo. I’ve got that music you get when you hit the wrong button playing inside my head.

Retired comic actor Dick Van Dyke has found a high-tech outlet for his talent. "I’m a computer animator. I’m a real nerd," the 78-year-old Van Dyke told The Associated Press in an interview to promote the DVD release of the 1968 musical fantasy Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. said Friday that the DVD Forum, an international association of electronics makers and movie studios, has approved the two Japanese companies’ standard for next-generation DVDs. The move gives Toshiba and NEC a leg up on a rival standard based on the Blu-ray disc format, which has a larger recording capacity, […]

It’s long been known that spammers sell victims’ addresses to each other. Keep that in mind as you look at the map and remember that — despite their cries of “Permission Marketing Works!” — I have not given my email address to a single one of the companies that appear on the Spamdemic Map, nor […]

“The Sysbug-A virus has been set loose and is attacking ‘the usual suspects’ — meaning that Microsoft Corp. Windows users should be on alert, according to one IT security company….
Tom Slodichak, chief security officer at Burlington, Ont.-based WhiteHat, said that Windows users are most often picked on by virus writers simply because of the sheer […]

Nigeria is to launch an inquiry into Internet fraud and will examine the existing laws covering the problem. The “419″ swindle - named after the penal code that outlaws it - will be targeted in particular.
I just don’t see our mailboxes having few Nigerian scams anytime soon.

A browser based on the Internet Explorer engine, MyIE2 takes the best elements of IE and marries them to more advanced features such as tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, and customizable skins. Some of our favorite features include the ability to set up bookmark groups, such as news or blog sites, that open on start-up; the […]

UK-based Waycam Technologies has launched a set of data recovery tools that can add the the System Restore facility to Windows 95, 98. Waycam Technologies, a Lincolnshire-based security specialist, has launched a set of data recovery tools that protect PCs from accidental or malicious data loss by creating a protected area on the system hard […]

In Lockergnome Windows Fanatic and IT Professional Newsletters, we notified readers of a free license for ActiveWords SE. It’s for the regular version not ActiveWords Plus. Gnomies, of course, are welcome to try the 60 day trial of ActiveWords Plus and get a 20% discount.

Opera Patches Browser Flaws. Opera has released a new version of its Web browser, which closes two security holes that could allow someone to remotely take control of a computer. The new version, released Friday, also incorporates a patch for the OpenSSL protocol, according to developer Opera Software.