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Posted by mrmule at 3:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Well, my email account has been hijacked again by spammers, I'm getting a flood (gazillion) of bouncebacks/undeliverable messages into my inbox.
So I feel I must apologise to anyone who has been affected by this barage of jehmrmulenug@mrmule.com emails (whoever that may be?!)

/da management

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I recently got a new TomTom One Europe and wanted to add a custom icon to my POI categories, so here you go...

1. go to poieditor.com and create a POI (don't add your home address or you will have an icon sat there) and don't worry where it is, you can delete it later in the device.

2. save the file as 'something.ov2' I used 'Holland.ov2', you can call it 'monkeys.ov2' if you like. (save it in a folder or somewhere where you won't loose it.)
3. now create an icon for your POI, it should be 22x22 pixels, 71 dpi, 24bit (i used fireworks, although the Gimp is a good free alternative), save it into the same folder as your 'ov2 file

3. now the codey bit...

Continue reading "Create custom POI for TomTom" »

Posted by mrmule at 12:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This is my personal 128 bit integer
if I catch you using it, I will sue the ass from underneath you!

Now, thanks to our newly developed VirtualLandGrab technology, you can own a 128-bit integer of your very own.

Here’s how we do it. First, we generate a fresh pseudorandom integer, just for you. Then we use your integer to encrypt a copyrighted haiku, thereby transforming your integer into a circumvention device capable of decrypting the haiku without your permission. We then give you all of our rights to decrypt the haiku using your integer. The DMCA does the rest.

freedom to tinker

/breaking HD/DVD... lol

Posted by mrmule at 11:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Yesterday, Microsoft agreed to share revenue from Zune sales with record labels and artists. Forcing the issue was Universal Music Group, which at deadline is the only label named in the program. UMG refused to license its music to the Zune unless it could receive a percentage of each device sold, in addition to standard music licensing fees for downloads and subscriptions.

"These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it," UMG chairman/CEO Doug Morris says. "So it's time to get paid for it."

Posted by mrmule at 10:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

is a Global Community of people who share WiFi.
If you have a broadband internet connection you can share it out into a 'FON Hotspot'. You get a FON social network router for €5.00 (VAT & Shipping not included). If you share your connection you become a Linus, Linuses share their WiFi connection in exchange for free access to all other WiFi Hotspots within the FON Community. On the other hand, Bills share their WiFi connections in exchange for getting the 50% of the net revenues from those who purchase daily access FON passes to the FON Community through the Bill’s FON Hotspot.

Aliens using laptop computers or similar devices are permitted to access any FON Hotspot by purchasing daily FON passes. The standard rate for these FON passes is currently €3 for a 24 hour connection period. FON passes are similar to pre-paid cards. Aliens pre-purchase these FON passes and then use them to connect to the Internet freely.

Posted by mrmule at 9:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

OK, so have been using (in order of company buyouts) Zonnet, then Versatel. Now the company has been taken over again, this time by TELE2.
So currently I have a 2mb down / 500kb up ADSL connection with a static IP address, my phone is also going through TELE2?! (was Versatel)??!! who knows whats happening there, but I pay 29.95 per month, plus a few bucks on phone calls.

So the contract is up for renewal, I can upgrade to 4mb down with 1mb up, with phone for the same price (better the devil you know?) or......

Do you have any suggestions for a new ISP?

cheers
da mule

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.... with a list like this?

http://121space.com/index.php?showtopic=886

everything you need and more from OpenSource and FreeWare!

thanks Matt

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For you Nintendo dogs gamers out there, and seems as I get a really high position in the google search for 'nintendo dogs' I have created a lovey new forum for you all to shout, go crazy and post all your Doggy DS stuff in.

Heres the magic link, tell your friends.. cheers!

http://mrmule.com/nintendodogs/index.php

da management

Posted by mrmule at 4:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

so I have been playing with blogshares.com for a while and trying to figure out how to;
1. get my blog share price up
2. keep my P/E ratio down (A blog's P/E refers to its relative price per valuation. The exact formula is (shares x price) / valuation.)
3.get blogshares to recognise all my links
4. get noticed in the ideas market

After not having much success in any of these, I had a google about performing a LBO 'leaveraged buy out' of my blog, i found this great post on sugarfused.net and I have decided to do a similar thing, huzzah for the spirit of sharing stuff!

Posted by mrmule at 9:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

OK, so some of you trainspotters may have noticed the new W3C HTML 4.01 tick logo here on the homepage.
I basically spendt the last 2 days getting the site up to scratch, trying to reduce the 404 erros, hits to moved/old gallery photos which either no longer exsist or have been moved, and hopefully make mrmule.com a 'useable' experience. (plus it looks better on my CV)

So whats happened?.... not much really.. tidying a few tags up, replacing spans with divs, making sure my images have alt text and that hyperlinks also have friendly alt text. I took about 20 or so reloads and edits to get the errors down from about 100 to 0.... well worth the time and I got loads of new knowledge for producing future sites, or updating this page. I have even been dabbling into the MySQL databases, moving, coping fields, adding new tables.. woOt!

All in all; not much of a change so far as look and feel, but hopefully you'll at least find the experience less challenging on the browser, which ever one you use.

W3C Validate this page

GRTZ
da mule

Posted by mrmule at 12:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

If you have found this website via this email:

Subject: Are you listed in major search engines?
From: "Sheryl" <math-college@mrmule.com>

This is because someone in Taiwan is using my .com address for their From: and Replyto:
the email references a domain "dolezai.com" which I am not going to link to for obvious reasons.

This from the server peeps:
"These mails did not originate from our system. They were sent from 140.111.66.1.
Thanks for choosing HostGator! "

So I guess I'm the one who's looking redfaced while some nasty spammer chuckles behind his freshly screen wiped monitor.

GRRRRR
If anyone knows anything on how to stop this stuff - muchly 'preciated!

my apologies for your inconvenience.
mrmule

Posted by mrmule at 1:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

mrmule.com is officially 1000 days old.

woOt!!!

I´d like to thank you all for supporting the website with all your visits, downloads and comments. The server is ever busy and seems to be transferring/serving about 20GB of data each month now!!

Here´s to the next 1000!
da mule

xx

Posted by mrmule at 10:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

From Boing Boing

"I recently was forwarded a message from a concerned reader who was just served a copyright infringement notice for downloading Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith. FOX is going after small-time downloaders. The letter was sent by BayTSP (on behalf of 20th Century FOX), who appear to be making good on their claim that they can effectively track BitTorrent users. I've posted the full contents of the notice (minus any identifying information) and included contact information for BayTSP in case readers have any questions or comments.

Link

I'm off to see it at the weekend... so they can have my $$ (maybe then i can download it (only joking)

Posted by mrmule at 10:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

speaking of mobile devices... I have now finally sorted out a wireless network for the home (chez mule). Came to a grand total of €190 for a ADSL router/modem 2xwireless PC cards 1xlaptop card. Got them from a new PC shop that opened up in the town center called MYCOM, helpful staff who know their stuff and pretty nice prices to boot!

So no more wire trailing all over the house WOOO HOO!!
BTW (thanks to jon2082 for the helpdesk stylee support)

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sorry to rave on about this.. but I just discovered that in Mozilla Firefox there is an RSS aggregator they like to call 'Live Bookmarks'.

But it's great.. and very useful.. even shows up my favicon.ico icon file...YAY

Posted by mrmule at 5:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

So hopefully you are all using the very lovely Mozilla FireFox as your preferred internet browser (Mac users differ I guess)

OK so I just started adding some of the cool extensions, like this wicked weather forecast thingy, very subtle, very sweet.

link to ForecastFox extension

note: I'm also using the googlebar and tabrowser preferences...any others?

Posted by mrmule at 11:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

OK.. so I've known about favicon for a while.. but I needed to make another one and just found a rather useful site that addresses the old problem of squinting at huge pixels for hours to get your nice logo into a 16x16 space...all this so it looks cool when someone hits your site and sees this >

in the address bar.

chami.com explains:

"Would you like to display your own icon on the browser address bar when visitors view or bookmark your web page?

Now it's easy to create icons for your web pages with FavIcon from Pics. Simply select a picture, logo or other graphic (of any size/resolution) for the "Source Image" and click "Generate FavIcon.ico"

I strip down images to their bare elements, with a white background, try and keep your upload image square

They seem to have tons of other free stuff too.

Posted by mrmule at 7:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

From Boing-Boing

Beanbag bondage chair website code almost as fun as chair itself
Remember that "Bond Age Beanbag chair" with chains, blogged here yesterday? Oh, of course you do, pumpkin. Anyway, crafty BoingBoing reader Adam tips us off to the fact that the manufacturer's website includes a very poorly designed CMS feature that allows you to pass whatever text you fancy along to the image caption. Let's break this down. Here is the URL that links to details on the "Bond Age" beanbag chair from Jucci.com's homepage:

http://www.jucci.com/bp.asp?p=bond-age-5-700.jpg ^700^519
^center&t=Bond+Age+Beanie&s=Naughty+but+nice!
+Introducing+our+racy+new+model!

Heh. Notice how the last bit of that url is the caption text? That could just as easily become:

http://www.jucci.com/bp.asp?p=bond-age-5-700.jpg^700^519
^center&t=F*ck+Bag&s=Whip+My+Tender+ASP+With+Your+
Hot+Throbbing+Pageview+Totals

Or, frankly, whatever the hell you like. Have fun with their server logs!

one from me >>>

LINK

Posted by mrmule at 11:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The LOTR irc log files

[at the Council of Elrond]
Gimli: "dwarves pwn!"
Legolas: "Sif, Elves pwn!"
Boromir: "OLOLOL noobs, men pwn!"
Elrond: "STFU tards!!1!"
**Frodo puts the ring on the plinth
Gimili: "Sif ring pwns all!"
**Gimli swings his axe at it, which shatters
Elrond: "**sigh, noob"

lololol

Link
you may also need this

urban dictionary dot com

Posted by mrmule at 9:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Copy restrictions that Music Producers put on Audio CDs is supposed to help reduce music piracy by preventing buyers from burning more than three copies, among other restrictions.

But it remains a work in progress -- songs ripped from the CD don't play on Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iPod digital music player.

And users loading the CD on a PC running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system can easily bypass the protection features by pressing the "shift" key.

Phoenix-based SunnComm Technologies Inc., the company behind the copy-protection features on "Contraband," says its technology is not supposed to be hacker-proof, just effective enough to reduce piracy overall.

more here

Posted by mrmule at 2:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who helped invent the ASCII coding system that is used in computers to represent text has died age 84, he also contributed the escape key and the backslash to the computer language.

On his website, he described himself as a "Computer software consultant, futurist and raconteur."

A memorial service in binary is scheduled for Saturday.

Posted by mrmule at 5:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I just got mine!

Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want.

1000 megabytes of free storage
No pop-up ads. No untargeted banners
Use Google search
Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation.

HUZZAH for Google!

Posted by mrmule at 3:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Nice large selection of fonts from TV shows like Buffy and Care Bears awwwww.
Site also has Game, Band, Chocolate fonts..etc etc.

TypeNow.net link

Posted by mrmule at 10:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Also colloquially “hot glass.” Lens glass which contains radioactive rare earth elements such as thorium (Th).

From the 1940s through to the early 60s lens makers (including Kodak/Aero Ektar, Leitz/Leica, Canon and Pentax/Takumar) sometimes included traces of thorium in certain lens elements because it lowers the refractive index of the glass. And some radioactive contaminants sometimes found their way into (usually non-radioactive) lanthanum (La) compounds used in other types of glass.

If you’re concerned about your old lens or viewfinder (though nearly all commercial lenses built since the 1960s should be free of radioactive materials) you can try putting it on a piece of high-speed film or paper in a pitch-dark place for a week. If the developed emulsion shows fogging you should have the lens tested by a professional with a Geiger counter to determine how radioactive it is.

LINK

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The French unit of the Russian security software developer Kaspersky Labs said that that virus - called Cabir - appears to have been developed by an international group specialising in creating viruses which try to show "that no technology is reliable and safe from their attacks".

According to the anti-virus software developer F-Secure, the discovery of Cabir is proof that the technologies are now available to create viruses for mobile phones and that they are now known to the writers of computer viruses.

Anti-virus experts have been warning for months that mobile phone viruses are set to multipy, given the increasingly diverse uses of mobile phones.

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
LINK

Posted by mrmule at 12:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

OK so I'm 'backing up' several of my DVDs for Personal use!
I have some software I'm using and thought it'd be good to share....

Firstly I'm ripping the DVD to very high quality AVI file, this takes ages and produces a 1:1 copy of the disk.
For this I am using INTERVIDEO DVDCopy

After that I need to get the DivX compression going and make the file smaller. (thanks to jon2082 for the links)

This guide will explain how to convert an
AVI to DivX,
DV to DivX,
XVID to DivX,
DivX to DivX,
VCD(MPG/DAT) to DivX,
SVCD(MPG) to DivX,
DVD(MPG/VOB) to DivX or
ASF to DivX.
With MP3 audio. You can also use this guide to reconvert DivX 3 to DivX 4+ or convert to uncompressed AVI or XVID.

Tools required: DivX/XviD Codecs, ASF Codecs, MP3 Audio Codec and Virtualdub or Virtualdub1.3c or Virtualdub-MPEG2-AC3.

Virtual-Dub walk through

Posted by mrmule at 11:06 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

20 lectures on science fiction in MP3 format.
The University of Minnesota has posted the audio from 20 lectures from its "Studies in Narrative: Science Fiction and Fantasy" distance-ed course.

This is a great idea I think, really make use of your time and technology.
Downloading now for mrsmules ipod.

LINK

Posted by mrmule at 10:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Yup.. thats right...speaking like Yoda, is like stepping back 1500 years (not forward as expected).
Mr Crystal, a professor of linguistics at Reading University for 20 years, said Yoda - a Jedi master in the Star Wars films - was a good way to get children interested in how preferences in English word order changed from the Anglo-Saxon era to that of Middle English.

'FULL OF THE FORCE I AM'

Link

Posted by mrmule at 10:24 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Now then.. I put my mixes out on Kazaa for all to download and enjoy... but to give my dayjob and produce a second album... now thats some success, all thanks to Kazaa File sharing. To date, Kazaa users around the world have downloaded and shared 10 million Ten Mile Tide songs.

Read more about the kazaa revolution

YAY!

Posted by mrmule at 2:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here's a neat site to make fun buttons like this one

Link

Posted by mrmule at 10:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Some insight into Microsoft's famous daily build process is given in:

private\windows\media\avi\verinfo.16\verinfo.h:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!IF YOU CHANGE TABS TO SPACES, YOU WILL BE KILLED
!!!!!!!!!DOING SO F**KS THE BUILD PROCESS
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and...

private\ntos\w32\ntuser\client\nt6\user.h:
* The magnitude of this hack compares favorably with that of the national debt.

more here

Posted by mrmule at 11:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This is how mrmule.com would look if you had Deuteranope colour blindness. I wasn't too suprised, but this site is fairly colour free i guess... anywho, Vischeck is a visual guide to colour blindness, with simulator and instructions and application to correct images.

Certainly an interesting and educational visit nonetheless.
A must if you run a charity or access site. (see also WIA - Web Accessibility Initiative)

Vischeck

Posted by mrmule at 9:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Yes thats right, you can now search Pi for kinds of useful stuff.
I searched for my birthday (tres useful i know).. which actually appeared!
needless to say I will not publish the position for security reasons.

you can also download Pi to 50 million digits!

The Pi-Search Page

Posted by mrmule at 12:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

http://www.linkdump.be a daily list of random links supplied by random people

todays random link is
For Arnolds Sake
(fighting for marijuana legalization)

Posted by mrmule at 10:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

DIRKON ? THE 35mm PAPER CAMERA
"This Czech designed pinhole camera is made from carefully cut out and constructed paper (needs to be stiff and lightproof). The name comes from the Czech word for pinhole (dirka) and a pun on Nikon. Uses 35mm film. Remember that you'll want a long exposure for a pinhole camera."

Link

Posted by mrmule at 11:58 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Hewlett-Packard Co. claims its little HP 12C is the oldest consumer electronic device still in production.

Do people actually still use calculators?.. I just seem to use the one on whichever PC/laptop is closest.

Posted by mrmule at 11:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

grab the following:

technics deck (good quality cartridge is a must)
mixer (pre-amp)
Cambridge audio leads
Creative Sound Blaster Extidgy
widescreen laptop

connect, power on, record, stop, save.

Done!

Posted by mrmule at 1:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Found at boingnet
The NYT has published a detailed how-to for converting vinyl to MP3s or CDs. When Napster started, it solved two distinct problems. The obvious one was that you might not have the CD handy that you wanted to listen to (either because you hadn't bought it or because you'd left it somewhere else, i.e., at your parents' place while you went to college), but the more subtle one was that ripping CDs used to be really hard. You needed specialied software, tons of hard-drive space, and you had to title all those tracks by hand.

This meant that once one person had gone to the trouble of ripping a disc, it made a lot of sense not to replicate that effort: better to download someone else's rips from her Napster share than to go through that fooforaw on your own.

Today, ripping CDs is literally a one-click operation, but ripping vinyl is still very freaking hard. Newsgroups like alt.binaries.sounds.78-era often get nice payloads of ripped wax, shellac and vinyl, but the general attack on P2P means that this stuff is getting harder and harder to find on demand, which means that more and more of us are having to individually rip our music, one side at a time, in order to transfer and preserve it (80% of the music ever recorded isn't available for sale -- if you want to hear the song on that groovy LP through your iPod's headphones, you're gonna have to get ripping).

Some LP restoration software suites, including Pinnacle Clean Plus ($100), come with an external preamp that plugs into a U.S.B. port and works with your existing sound card. (Clean Plus and other software choices are described in more detail in the accompanying article.) There is also the iMic from Griffin Technologies ($40, www.griffintechnologies.com), a small input device that converts analog signals to digital outside of the computer, eliminating the possibility of electronic interference from other computer components...
You also need lots of hard-drive space, because sound files occupy about 10 megabytes per minute; that would be almost a gigabyte for all 77 minutes of Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica."

Linkage . . .

Posted by mrmule at 1:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Your friendly mrmule is now celebrating his 16 and a half birthday on Mars this week.. so yay for martians and they're youth giving maths.
Go enjoy the Creative Anniversary Calculator and find out how many months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds old you are!

Posted by mrmule at 4:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Worlds 1st GIGAPIXEL image?

It consists of 196 separate photographs taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera, and then stitched together into one seamless composite. The final image is 40,784 x 26,800 pixels in size, and contains about 1.09 billion pixels...a little more than one gigapixel.

How was it created?.. readmore

you can also have the worlds most difficult game of where's Wally?

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Ok so I got my online MP3 player working..yay!!!!
Heres the site who gave me the code and the help to get it all working.

Thanks Metasphere!

Posted by mrmule at 11:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Great Logo ideas arranged into groups:

droplets
refinement
pop
natural spirals
animorphic
canted
alpha-face
shadows
transparency
green
punctuation
labels
photo icons
slinky
wire

Graphic Design USA

Posted by mrmule at 11:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

detailed guide on how you can bluejack someone. I'm assuming you know what bluejacking is by now...

bluejackq dot com

1. Get your hands on a Bluetooth-enabled device (mobile phone, PDA, laptop). For the majority of us, we'll be using phones, so for this guide I will assume that you will be too.

2. Create a new phone book contact, with the message you want to send to someone in the 'Name' field. e.g. 'I like the look of your cappuccino'

3. Go to a busy place (see Tips & Tricks for examples of good bluejacking spots)

4. Select the contact you made earlier, and choose 'Send via Bluetooth'

5. Your phone will search for other Bluetooth devices roughly 10 metres around you. It will either list available devices, or say none could be found. If it doesn't find any, choose another spot.

6. Your phone will list the names of devices in range. Sometimes the names will give you a clue to the model of phone.

7. Select one of these devices listed for your phone book contact to be sent to.

8. If all goes well, your contact will be sent to the selected device

9. If you can, try to casually look around you and see if you spot anybody with a bluetooth enabled phone/device nearby looking truly puzzled. It would help greatly if you know which phones have Bluetooth and which don't. This way, you can eliminate anybody who is looking at, say, their Nokia 3310 which doesn't have Bluetooth.

10. The rest, as they say, is up to you

Posted by mrmule at 11:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

W32.Mimail.E@mm is a variant of W32.Mimail.D@mm that spreads by email. It is packed with UPX.

The email has the following characteristics:

Subject: don't be late! [random string of letters]
Attachment: readnow.zip (contains readnow.doc.scr)

Symantec Security Response has developed a removal tool to clean the infections of W32.Mimail.E@mm.

Posted by mrmule at 12:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

In Microsoft Word 2002, when I select Properties from the File menu and click on the Summary tab, I see information I don't always want to share with others. For example, how do I clear the company and author lines? What if I want my e-mail to be anonymous? Is there any way to accomplish this without modifying the properties for every file?

Instructions from eWeek

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If you own a website, you should really protect your email address. Spiders, crawlers, whatever you wanna call them, dig around your website for code matching the tag "mailto:youraddress@yoursite.com".

One way to combat this is to change the format of the code from ASCII text to Unicode Value
i.e maito:me@me.com becomes:
mailto:me@me.com

crazy huh, but it works a treat!

Here's a website to help you with your translations
ASCII converter

Posted by mrmule at 12:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

take a look at this map it shows how all the major search engines send or recieve primary results.

now see this article:

Google rebuffs Microsoft offers
INTERNET search leader Google has rejected a takeover bid from Microsoft in favour of selling its shares directly to the public, The New York Times reported today.

sweeeet.

Posted by mrmule at 12:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Summary: With Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft is introducing a set of security technologies that will improve Windows XP-based computers' ability to withstand malicious attacks from viruses and worms. The technologies include:

Network protection
Memory protection
Safer email
Safer browsing

Read more. . .

Posted by mrmule at 12:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

First up, you need to know what Bluetooth is. There are lots of types of modern devices that incorporate Bluetooth as one of their many features. PDAs, mobile phones and laptops are a few of these modern devices. Bluetooth means that Bluetooth enabled devices can send things like phonebook/address book contacts, pictures & notes to other Bluetooth enabled devices wirelessly over a range of about 10 metres.

So, we've got past the boring part. Now, using a phone with Bluetooth, you can create a phonebook contact and write a message, eg. 'Hello, you've been bluejacked', in the 'Name' field. Then you can search for other phones with Bluetooth and send that phonebook contact to them. On their phone, a message will popup saying "Hello, you've been bluejacked has just been received by Bluetooth" or something along those lines. For most 'victims' they will have no idea as to how the message appeared on their phone. So, personalised messages like 'I like your pink top' and the startled expressions that result is where the fun really starts.

more from ellie-g

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Apparently there are some problems with the new 15-inch Powerbooks which just came out. Hundreds of users have been complaining about white spots that keep showing up on their screen of their laptop.

Read more. . .

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Sneaky Snake Sales Tricks and How to Avoid Being BIT!
A "no holds barred" expose of the subtle, sometimes deceptive techniques employed by "sneaky snake" salespeople to separate you from your money. Forewarned is forearmed; after reading this, you'll at least have a fighting chance to avoid being "bit".

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Microsoft is preparing a substantial overhaul to its popular Hotmail e-mail service. While company officials aren't explicitly saying that many of the new features are geared toward removing spam annoyances, that looks to be the case. The update includes many new interface enhancements, including a new start page.

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Michael Hanscom admits it probably wasn’t the best idea. He thought the photo on his personal blog of Apple computers being offloaded at a Microsoft loading dock might get a couple of smirks from friends. He never imagined it would cost him his job.

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Fight off nasty viruses, worms, and Trojan horses by following these simple rules.

I. Remember thy antivirus software and keep it updated.
II. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's attachments.
III. Avoideth bogus file downloads.
IV. Smite spyware and pop-ups.
V. Thou shalt foil spammers.
VI. Keep thy operating system patched.
VII. Maketh a rescue disk and keep it handy.
VIII. Be not taken in by false claims.
IX. Honor thy firewall.
X. Maketh backups and keep them holy.

from our brothers and sisters in the PC security choir.

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Spam attacks and security vulnerabilities have prompted Microsoft to plan to turn off its troublesome Windows Messenger service in the next Windows XP update, a company representative said Tuesday.

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Now I thought old Bill Gates had us windoze users suckered.. glad I don't have a mac tho!!!..heee hee

U.S. based Internet security research company @Stake has warned of newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting the Mac OS X operating system.

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ICONS, ICONS all our software appis have em, This is an interesting article about the new (and old) icons being used in the latest relaease of Office2003.
Basically, why are we using icons that have no meaning anymore.. like the save button.. when was the last time you saved anything onto a 3.5in floppy?!!!?

daft innit!

READ ON...

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OK so now you can control 2 pcs (of differering OS WINblah and of differing locations) from one PC
You need VNC and this little bag o tricks

So I use VNC at work, what happens is I can control another PC from my desktop (or the network admin can mess with your mind and move your mouse round etc)

Now I know it's not far for me to walk round the other side of the room, but I am lazy and you have to get up, walk sit down, login.. at least I havn't got a 'x' flights of stairs to run up n down!

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Thats right, free..you do have to have your site hosted somewhere already, so they can point to it.
This is dead useful if you have your site hosted with say your ISP and your free webspace has the longest most boring and forgettable domain name ever. So, catch? Well yes there is one I suppose You get a tiny popup window for .TK domains
anywho, here the link dot tk
I have so far managed to collect

braindribbles.tk
projectorange.tk

thank you (faka fetai) Tokelau

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