2005 December

My all-time favorite New Year’s resolution is 1024×768 (first suggested by the esteemed Weird Al a few years ago). Not sure if I’m resolving to do anything new or different for 2006, though - just refining the things that I’ve been doing. I pretty much quit coffee, I don’t smoke, and I work out every [...]

Lemonade Tycoon 2 juices up business simulation & takes to the streets of New York! It’s jam-packed with awesome graphics, tons of customer types, lots of equipment upgrades, & 19 different locations. The challenge of selling lemonade has never been so sweet! Find out if you can dominate the lemonade biz in New York City.
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Emsa Save My Work is a simple personal keylogger that is not aimed at snooping, but rather to keep track of everything you are typing. If you have ever experienced a program crash and lost the content of a letter or e-mail you had just typed, then this program can be of help. It automatically [...]

While I am a huge fan of movies, I don’t tend to remember the specific lines that help to make or break certain scenes. I can walk out of the theater and go off on the story and characters, but at the same time, some of my friends only seem to retain the dialogue that [...]

January 1, 1892
Today’s online field trip takes us to Ellis Island, which served as the portal to almost all American immigrants arriving between 1892 and 1954. Although some were turned away, 98 percent of those examined at Ellis Island were allowed into the country. In 1938, my mother, along with her mother and father, were [...]

This is another report on the Windows vulnerability I posted a bit earlier. Suzi Turner of ZDNet.com writes:
…Sunbelt researchers have collected more than 50 variants of the WindowsMetafiles (WMF) and documented a number of domains running this exploit. Email, blog talkbacks, guestbook links, all could be used to spread this infection. In fact, [...]

Reuters reports (via Silicon.com):
The Texas attorney general said on Wednesday [Dec. 21] that he added a new claim to a lawsuit charging Sony BMG Music Entertainment with violating the state’s laws on deceptive trade practices by hiding “spyware” on its CDs.

A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows [XP and 2003 Sever], which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of corrupted Windows Metafile files (”.wmf”). This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a [...]

“You’re never too young to get a fun toy for Christmas.” That’s exactly what WowWee was thinking when they unleashed the Robosapien V2 a few weeks ago. I never really spent much time looking at them in the store, but Ponzi thought it would be cute to have another robot roaming throughout the house (to [...]

Do you use Outlook Express for your personal or business mail? Is your data safe?
Viruses, worms, trojans, power surges, hard drive failure, and human error are just some of the many ways that you can lose your important e-mail messages.
While most users understand the importance of backing up their e-mail, many find that doing so [...]