Mariam writes “Free software developers from the non-profit NeoSmart Technologies have published a report detailing their experience with coding around Windows Vista’s UAC limitations, including the steps they took to make their software perform system actions without requiring admin approval or UAC elevation. Their conclusion? That Windows Vista’s improved security model is nothing more than […]
Remember the image we showed you that was reportedly a spy shot of the 3G iPhone? We were skeptical at the time. Although the image didn’t have any tell-tale signs of being a Photoshop piece, it also just didn’t adhere to much of what we’ve heard about the upcoming case redesign of the iPhone 2. […]
Google can reorder search and news results from the last day, week, a few months, or entire year by adding a small string to the end of the search URL. Just add this string—&as_qdr=d—to the address bar and hit enter. You’ll get a custom drop-down box that lets you re-order results based on date. It’s […]
Ian Lamont writes “For years, I’ve been frustrated by Blogger’s relatively limited functionality and other problems. For instance, we’ve heard about Blogger’s security flaws since the beginning of this decade. Blogger’s latest problem, which lets bots bypass CAPTCHAs in order to set up spam blogs, is not just a sign of Google’s disregard for security […]
Build your own g-force meter for your car.
Original post by Julie
Windows only: We all got a little excited when we saw the new green screen-like background effects new to iChat in Leopard (especially the Star Wars hologram effect), but if you’re living the Windows life, you may be thinking: Where are my wacky backgrounds and weird effects? Luckily for you, freeware application ManyCam is there […]
Clay Shirky has been giving talks on his book Here Comes Everybody — his “masterpiece,” per Cory Doctorow — and BoingBoing picks up one of them, from the Web 2.0 conference. Shirky has come up with a quantification of the attention that TV has been absorbing for more than half a century. Shirky defines as […]
Most web page authoring software like Dreamweaver—or even blog publishing systems like Blogger or WordPress—all come with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mode, which formats web content without exposing the HTML and CSS behind it. But even in 2008, lots of web authors turn off WYSIWYG and just hand-code their own […]
SkiifGeek writes “Race to Zero, a sideline competition being set up at this year’s DefCon, already has some Antivirus vendors steaming over the objectives of the contest. They are upset because it is essentially a polymorphism exercise. Entrants are given a set of malware samples which they must then modify to pass through a battery […]
If these reports pan out, we could have a lot of happy Canadians on our hands by the end of the summer. According to two separate reports, both the iPhone and the Nokia N95 could be hitting Canadian soil by summertime. The Toronto Star seems to have it on good authority that the iPhone will […]
