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Anonym.OS Live CD
Wired.com has an interesting article regarding anonymity on a disk, an initiative by kaos.theory security research to make a bootable CD and make anyone totally anonymous. The goal is to put a secure crypto-heavy operating systems on a bootable CD called Anonym.OS: a disk that would offer the masses the same level of privacy available [...]
Browse any site in your Mobile Phone or PDA
This is possible using portals that strips out graphics, javascript and other elements not needed by your mobile phone or PDA browser. Here are the portals that can instantly render any ordinary websites into mobile website: Google mobile: http://www.google.com/gwt/n This is the latest offering from Google. Great for browsing mobile pages because it gives you [...]
Optical Mouse-phone for Skype
There’s a new concept mouse from Sony — VN-CX1 is a USB optical mouse-phone compatible with Skype which combines phone and mouse in one. I really like the idea and it looks stylish too. I just think it’s better if it is wireless or bluetooth-enabled, not wired. When there’s a call in Skype you simply [...]
MyODBC Works!
Note for my thesis groupmates – After hours of testing I finally got MyODBC to work… *Phew* I think I’m just an idiot for not discovering this tool earlier. This article on how ODBC access MySQL in .NET made the concept clearer to me. I thought using MySQL in Visual Studio 2005 would require hand-coding [...]
Thunderbird 1.5 Released
Finally Thunderbird 1.5 is out. This new version has automated update system, RSS feed and podcast support, in-line spell checking, and a lot more. What’s new in Thunderbird 1.5 Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating [...]
MacBook Pro
I’m really impressed with this new Mac laptop powered by Intel Core Duo processor. It’s called MacBook Pro, a new brand name to celebrate the very first Apple laptop with Intel mobile processor. The new Intel logo also looks different on the MacBook Pro — sleek, black and shiny. The MacBook Pro 1.83GHz Intel Core [...]
New Shiny Skype 2.0 Released
Skype 2.0 had been released and there are great features added in this release as well as many bug fixes. It’s currently available in Windows only. There’s a new release for OS X but it doesn’t support video calls yet while Linux has not received any update yet so let’s hope that both OS X [...]