In a lucky break for Scotland Yard an arrest made last fall may be Al-Qaeda’s infamous Irhabi 007 hacker. Washington Post: For almost two years, intelligence services around the world tried to uncover the identity of an Internet hacker who had become a key conduit for al-Qaeda. The savvy, English-speaking, presumably young webmaster taunted his…
...Read MoreHow To: Make Windows Update Without Verification
Here’s an interesting little morsel from over at Tech-Recipes.com on How to make WindowsUpdate.com allow you to update without verifying your copy of Windows. Tech-Recipes: Move on over to the updates site Microsoft Updates, now when the page loads it will give you the options for custom or Express, if you were to make a…
...Read MoreBeatles take on Apple
After having been bashed last week by Frances and a new law that says all music downloaded from the web must be able to play on any player, Apple is again getting hit hard and this time by the surviving members of The Beatles. Times.UKThis week the Apple Corps goes to the High Court seeking…
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Mediafour’s MacDrive 6 MacDrive 6 for Windows enables PC users to open, edit, and save files on Mac disks (HFS/HFS+). You can even format Mac disks and burn Mac CDs and DVDs (tags: Apple Mac software sysadmin tools windows dltv windowsxp Microsoft) You Play World of Warcraft? You’re Hired! Why you should play WoW (tags:…
...Read MoreMacMini clone runs linux for under $400
Here’s a cool lil’ diddy, a 2.8 pound MacMini like computer from Linspire for under $400 fully loaded. eHomeUpgradeThe 2.8 pound PC features a front panel backlit power button, a slot loading combo DVD drive, two rear USB ports, one Firewire connector, S-Video/DVI video outputs, 10/100 Ethernet port, speaker/mic jacks, Pentium M 740 processor, a…
...Read MoreYouTube.com Scaring Music and Video Industry
Looks like the popular video sharing portal YouTube.com is scaring the music and film industry who are claiming most of the material being published on the site is bootleg music and concert videos. eCommerce Times: More than 20,000 new video clips are sent in to YouTube every day and it attracts 15 million plays every…
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Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen (tags: ajax apps Art code cool CSS design tools web webdesign fonts typography style) Rob’s big World of Warcraft cheat sheet A great cheat sheet for WoW players. Top of my list. (tags: wow worldofwarcraft games)
...Read MoreCan you be forced to work overtime?
From over at Ask Yahoo this morning: Ask Yahoo: It all depends on the type of job, and if you’re in the U.S., on the state you work in. The laws vary, but in California, companies can require their employees to work overtime, provided they pay proper wages. “Under most circumstances the employer may discipline…
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Share an external drive in OSX SharePoints is an application or a preference pane that makes it easy to add and delete share points like in the old Finder. In Mac OS X, by default, you are limited to sharing only what is in your public folder in your home directory. This program makes (tags:…
...Read MoreApple, Why Doth Thou Stabbest Us In The Back?
I saw this over at Dave Winer’s place this morning so I had to go look see what he was talking about. Scripting News: “Apple is patenting our inventions, again. Oy.” THIS is what he was talking about: Techniques for presenting and managing syndication XML (feeds) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user can modify…
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