2004 September

“What is baseportal?
baseportal is a web-based database platform. Use it from anywhere from any computer without programming knowledge - for free! Within minutes the first database is created. Adapt the design to your own needs and if you are an experienced user you can use your own programs as well.
Who needs baseportal? […]

“A very simple shell extension that copies the text path of any file/folder in Explorer to the clipboard.
Saves a bit of time on all those annoying Browse for Folder windows!”
Download it here.
A nice little timesaver - Mike writes some very nice software.
Check out the rest of his stuff at http://www.mlin.net/

“What the heck is Wizmo?
Wizmo is an extremely useful “Windows Gizmo” I created when I could not find anything else on the Net to do similar jobs.
Wizmo is a multi-purpose, miscellaneous Windows function, “catch all” with a growing list of uncommon but useful features and capabilities.
Wizmo is present on every one of my Windows machines. […]

“Intel Corporation today introduced the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor 548 supporting Hyper-Threading Technology for the portability market segment. This processor is designed for larger-sized notebook PCs, also known as “desktop replacements,” that typically feature large screens, full-size keyboards and multiple drives. Notebooks based on the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor 548 supporting HT Technology […]

“Japan’s third-largest bank, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd., will deploy a biometric security system based on vein-pattern recognition technology in branches nationwide in October, the bank said on Tuesday.
The bank will start issuing Visa credit cards with embedded integrated circuits that contain customer vein-pattern information and work with a system developed by Fujitsu Ltd. […]

“Raise your glass to technology — it’s really raising the bar. Several London establishments are now part of a service wherein you log onto the www.buymeabeer.com/ Web site, pick a libation, enter a friend’s cell phone number and a personal message, and then prepay the tab. The recipient of your generosity then goes to one […]

“Plastic electronics promise to enable flexible, inexpensive devices from electronic paper to smart clothing. Researchers developing organic electronic materials have to balance requirements that often conflict: material with good electrical properties, and material that is readily processable.
Researchers from DuPont Central Research and Development and Columbia University have devised a way to make a random, […]

“Swiss authorities Sunday hailed as a success what they said was the world’s first binding Internet vote in a national referendum.
Some 2,723 people in four Geneva suburbs — around 22 percent of voters in the region who participated in the referendum — cast their ballots online on issues including naturalization laws, maternity leave and […]

“Yaakov Benenson wants to shrink your doctor. Or more accurately, he wants to replace physicians with molecular machines that diagnose and treat diseases with phenomenal precision, each what he calls a “doctor in a cell.”
In just five years, Benenson has taken the concept from drawing board to test-tube prototype. Working at the Weizmann Institute […]

“This article contains information about why you may need to install the Outlook E-mail Security Update even though you use Outlook Express as your e-mail client.
MORE INFORMATION
The Outlook e-mail security update does not affect or modify Outlook Express because Outlook Express cannot automatically process viruses like the LOVEBUG virus. However Outlook Express can be […]

“This article describes how you can move your messages between two different computers that are running Outlook Express 5.
MORE INFORMATION
Use the following steps to move your messages between two computers that are running Outlook Express 5:
1) Click Start, point to Find, and then click Files Or Folders.
2) In the Named box, type *.dbx, and […]

“Sir Richard Branson today [September 27] announced that he had signed a licensing deal to create a fleet of spacecraft offering commercial flights to space by 2007-8. Speaking at the launch of Virgin Galactic Airways, Sir Richard said he planned to invest ₤60m in space tourism, making it accessible to the general public.
The Virgin […]

“If you haven’t heard of The Sims by now then you should probably have your Internet privileges revoked. It was a game in which you micro-managed and babied a family of petulant and unruly jerks, trying to keep them from burning or electrocuting themselves to death long enough to spend the hour it takes to […]

“While some nanotech researchers create the basic building blocks of new materials, others, like Yi Cui, play equally important roles in piecing those blocks together and taking the next steps toward practical applications. Cui’s ability to finely control the assembly of nano building blocks has led to new devices that may end up in cancer-screening […]

“A wire transfer from Vienna City Hall via a cable running through the sewer system to a bank a few blocks away has marked the first real-world use of cryptography that takes advantage of the weird quantum phenomenon of entanglement.
Particles like atoms, electrons and photons can all be entangled, and in the entangled state, […]

“Fast on the heels of its announcement that Russia would be the fourth of five countries in a pilot program of a low-cost, limited-functionality version of Windows XP, Microsoft named India as the fifth country. The Windows XP Starter Edition will be available in India in early 2005, Microsoft said Wednesday. On Monday, the company […]

“Can’t help thinking the wrong man got the bullet? You’re probably not the only one…
A man who became so frustrated at the extent of his boss’s ‘cyber-loafing’ has been sacked after he installed spyware on his employer’s computer to prove it was used for little more than game playing on a daily basis.
And while […]

“update As part of a re-examination, the U.S. Patent Office has issued a preliminary rejection for a patent previously granted to Microsoft for a Windows file format.
The agency ruled that, based on existing inventions at the time, the ideas behind the FAT (File Allocation Table) patent would have been obvious and are therefore not […]

“Experts at the SysAdmin Audit Network Security, or SANS, Institute said the virus is still in its infancy, with the institute having received only two reports of infection so far.
“It’s been done in the past, but with HTML code instead of the JPEG,” said Johannes Ullrich, chief technical officer for SANS’ Internet Storm Center, […]

100GB email accounts! And they are giving these away for free! Yup, best part is you do not even have to wait for an invite to start enjoying the benefits of a huge email capacity like this. This does lead one to wonder just how legitimate this really is. Then again, who cares, it is […]