Posts Tagged ‘Security’

RSS Digest #109-#112 Roll-up Extravaganza

August 3rd, 2009 by mattatobin | Comments Off | Filed in RSS Digest

I have been very very busy for the last few days including personal stuff to work out. So here is the RSS Roll-up Extravaganza.

NetNewsWire beta beginning of transition to Google Reader (Updated)
Let them eat cake: Fat Princess is a delight
Robert Kaiser: Progress on XULRunner-based Mandelbrot app
Holiday season will see big changes in laptops
Homegrown CBHD discs outsell Blu-ray by 3-1 margin in China
Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions
Calendar: How to Save Sunbird
Man, the U.S. had a crazy cyberwar plan against Iraq (that it didn’t execute)
The Robot Uprising Will Begin With a Game of Catch [Robots]
Big Talk from MS: WinMo 6.5 is Gonna Trump the iPhone’s Web Browsing
Downloaders Beware: Lawmakers say Downloading Music or Files Could be Are Costly and Unsafe
Mining Social Networks for Clues
Google Maps accused of unfair competition in France
Using software updates to spread malware
Google Adds More Options To Image Search
Hackers expose weakness in visiting trusted sites
Complex Medical Test Made From Paper and Tape for Three Cents | Wired Science | Wired.com
Nike Basketball Trainer Ganon Baker shows 23 Ways To Destroy Your Defender: New style iPhone app!
How to Make an Electronic Display With Paper and Mood-Ring Ink | Wired Science | Wired.com
AT&T responds to FCC letter re: Google Voice mobile iPhone App
Snow Leopard Now Available for Pre-Order [Snow Leopard]
Whitman leads in cash for Calif. governor race
Nope, don’t expect to see an Apple e-book store
RSS Subscribers or Twitter Followers: Which Are Worth More?
Week in Microsoft: Pirates crack Windows 7, Redmond counters
In cloud computing, data is not electricity
20 years of computer lessons on 1 page
Celebrity Mac Chick Sighting: Rose McGowan
Shape Services Brings Skype To The Palm Pre
Original Futurama cast returning to the show!!!
Researchers offer tools for eavesdropping and video hijacking
BlackBerry App World v1.1 Available Today
Price of the PS3 has come down 70 percent… what? No, not for you, silly
Cultured Code
MySpace Mail: Not bad, but not a killer app
Manually-Powered Wind-up Light Is Perfect For Bed Time [Light]
Windows 7 Family Pack Pricing Confirmed at $149 [Windows 7]
Adobe updates Acrobat, Reader with security improvements
The Chinese iPhone surfaces
My Kindle ate my homework: lawsuit filed over 1984 deletion
I Quit The iPhone by Michael Arrington
Does Verizon Stand to Benefit From the FCC’s Probe?
Over 1 billion served: Firefox passes download milestone
Steve Ballmer on Apple and PC Pricing
Happy System Admin Day!
PS2 is outselling PS3 and PSP
Seth Godin at the Business of Software Conference
SplashID – A Second Look
Apple claims iPhone jailbreaking leads to compromised security and shorter battery life
Review: Verizon MiFi 2200
The Pirate Bay ordered to shut down in the Netherlands
Coconut! Headphones!
Sony sees huge loss, Nintendo profits fall, Apple noted as competition
Mozilla IT: Mozilla Scheduled Downtime – 07/30/2009, 8pm – 10pm PDT
Google Goes Back to School to Secure the Future of Its Apps
McAfee acquiring MX Logic, delivers solid outlook
Record every moment of your boring life
Report: eBay is building a Frankenskype
Pac-Man oven mitts keep hands cool. Might eat your cookies though.
CentOS Linux developers threaten mutiny
Apple unceremoniously discontinues Shake pro VFX app
Logitech release 7 new webcams
Apple Not Exhibiting at CES 2010
Top 10 iPhone annoyances — and how to fix them
Facebook and Google Android app getting closer
Skype Prime won’t make global phone sex operators rich
Unauthorized charges getting WoW accounts suspended
DIY Vortex cannon
Samsung announces 8500 series of backlit LCD HDTVs
Psystar finally announces legal team for fight against Apple
T-Mobile ETF escape may be on the horizon for some with 9/1/09 fee changes
Rename open files
Hands-on: Linux appliances made easy with SUSE Studio
Who wants to win a 2-year old, lime green iPhone?!?!
Google vs. Bing. vs. Yahoo: Fight!
Windows 7 tours gets animated Silverlight browser

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

PS: Digests resume as normal by midnight tonight… KtecK Standard Time

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RSS Digest #107 and #108

July 30th, 2009 by mattatobin | Comments Off | Filed in RSS Digest

RSS Digest for Wednesday, July 29th, 2009:

Video: ‘V for Vendetta’ Director Goes Ninja
Kodak Zi8 Wallops Flip With 1080p, Image Stabilizer and SD Slot [Camcorders]
Xbox Live dashboard update preview invites begin rolling out
Palm Pre headed to Verizon next year
LG has first THX-Certified LCD HDTV
Agency Mulls Curbs on Cybersquatters
Pascal Finette: Mozilla Labs Design Challenges – What we’ve learned so far…
AOL revenue slides 24 percent in 2nd quarter
Intuit and open source: Tastes great, less filling?
T-Mobile to sell HTC Touch Pro2 in August
Oops, @MarissaMayer Deletes Sensitive Tweet That Can Still Be Found
AP’s rights management DRM explained
Psystar hires Jammie’s lawyers in fight with Apple
Windows 7 activation already cracked with Lenovo’s OEM license key
Pirate Bay acquisition is likely dead
Car? Kids? Get a two-pack of headrest LCDs for $130
Online video keeps growing with help of broadband, mobile
Barnes and Noble to offer complimentary WiFi
Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook
Brilliant but Doomed Technology
Intel: Windows 7 will deploy faster than Vista
Unboxing the $1,195 URC MX-5000 remote
Steam Achievements
Motorola Morrisson with T-Mobile 3G and UMA hits the FCC
I’m 90% sure the “Apple iTablet rumor” is an elaborate hoax by Apple to get Dell to waste money building a competing device
How Much Do You Think Twitter Is Worth? How about a Half-Billion Dollars

RSS Digest for Tuesday, July 28th, 2009:

The Matrix, but with money: the world of high-speed trading
Apple Rejects Official Google Voice iPhone App [Apple]
Labels hope Apple’s ‘Cocktail’ will boost album sales
MySpace Overtakes Evite On The Event Planning Totem Pole
LEGO Unboxing
Travel Back in Time
V-Screen turns PSP games 3D
ATI’s $1,800 2GB FirePro V8750 GPU introduced and reviewed
Microsoft sponsors Firefox!
Free Spirit: NASA Recreates Mars Surface to Liberate Rover
Movie studios sue The Pirate Bay
Unix Turns 40
Samsung’s debut e-book reader arrives
Verizon Uses Twitter To Trash Talk AT&T Too
AT&T dual USB and iPhone car charger – $15
Acer and ASUS reportedly freeze netbook releases until 2010
microsoft’s settlement proposal
Red Hat: ‘We spend over $100 million a year to advance Linux’
Like Chrome, Should Firefox Put Tabs on Top?
New Scientist: ‘Humans Prefer Cockiness to Expertise’
Electric-car maker Coda gains high-powered investors
Order Your DIY Flying Trike Today!
Robot gets an iPhone 3Gs for a brain
Landlord sues tenant after tweet about moldy apartment
Mozilla Security: URL bar spoofing vulnerability
Netgear and OpenDNS to block porn from the cloud
Viliv X70 preorders delayed, should ship out on August 11
New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9
Alternative to Bottled Water
Toshiba’s inaugural 3.5-inch external HDD is exactly what you think it is
EU Vista, XP users will also get to vote IE off the island
Yahoo and Microsoft to start ad partnership, says source

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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RSS Digest #99 and the big #100 – Last Combo till September, I hope!

July 1st, 2009 by mattatobin | Comments Off | Filed in General

RSS Digest for Wednesday, July 1st, 2009:

NASA patches Endeavour’s leaky plumbing
Child porn found on an iPhone application
Yahtzee woolgathers on and around The Sims 3
The One Day Particle Editor
Images of Apollo Landing Sites Soon Available
Scientists find a black hole that’s “just right”
As Mozilla ‘upgrades the Web,’ Microsoft must upgrade its pace
Toshiba launching the TG01 next week in London
ATM vendor gets security talk pulled from conferences
Xbox 360 Repair Guide
Weak PS3 sales: Now the Taiwanese government sponsors Sony
Bing’s first month produces small share gain
Get ready to deploy Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2.
How to Achieve Revenue
Gmail adds drag and drop
Happy Canada Day & Ch’town Tweet-Up
Bing takes a little more market share from Google
Finally, a MacBook Pro for Ninjas!
Gmail labels get higher placement, drag-and-drop
iPhoto update fixes crash, MBA firmware for new batteries
Bringing Moore’s Law to the Data Storage Market
iPhone 3GS TV Ads
GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested
3D TV will won’t go primetime in 2011
Microsoft resorts to vomit to market IE 8
Mimo Pivoting 7-Inch USB Display Now Available at Think Geek [Displays]
Happy DTS 7.1 Day, California
Is Twitter freaking out over ‘tweet’ trademark?
News: Apple posts iPhone OS 3.1, SDK 3.1 beta
Chicago ‘burb ditches red light cameras, no safety advantage
Windows 7 Beta automatic shutdowns begin today, RC users safe until March 1st
Is There More to Life than Gnomedex?

RSS Digest for Tuesday June 30th, 2009:

Starcraft lessons from a “100 percent full-blooded Korean”
PlayStation emulator hits the Palm Pre
John Slater: An Upgraded Mozilla.com for an Upgraded Firefox
Chocolate Covered Grasshoppers
Google fixes Outlook plugin for Google Apps
Where Have All the Platforms Gone?
RIAA triumphs in Usenet copyright case
Gnomedex 2009 for $99?!
The Original Ethernet Cable and Cable Diagrams [Retromodo]
Clipstart 1.1
Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of “Free”
Health Officials To Military: Ban Smoking
The Pirate Bay adds ‘user deletion’
Apple’s 3D Modeler Opening Could Be Your Dream Job [Apple]
Ubuntu: A feasible Oracle hedge against Windows
The Alienware OptX AW2210 21.5-inch LCD monitor – Hadoken!
Verizon says house shoppers crave high-fiber Internet diet
Firefox add-ons: Which work in 3.5?
New Firefox, Nero now available
Yahoo to build data center near Buffalo
ASUS rolls out RT-N16 wireless router
Arcade on wheels? Yes, please
Metaplace virtual worlds now blog-embeddable
Photos: NASA’s science, tech showcase
Comcast Bringing Metropolitan WiMAX To Subscribers
G.S.M. Palm Pre spotted in Vietnam
The Pirate Bay tracker to shut down
War is childish hell: Ars tries to review Battlefield Heroes
Ricoh jumps from copiers to the cloud
Three Startups That Want to Deliver a Fat Mobile Pipe
Sanyo’s Eneloop lamp heals your ecological soul

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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RSS Digest #81 – OLED kills DLP, Lycos Coming Back… WHY?, and Mac Attacks

June 11th, 2009 by mattatobin | Comments Off | Filed in Apple, General, Mac OS X, Microsoft, RSS Digest, Software, WIndows

RSS Digest for Thursday, June 11th, 2009:

Data Protection Makes Identifying Online Pirates a Nightmare
Scientists Discover Superconducting Material That’s Just Two Atoms Thick [Future Tech]
Researchers ditch DLP, develop OLED panel-based mini projector
Sharp’s remote controlled LED light-bulbs generate seven-shades of smart
US brain-plug interface gets live human trials
Security holes poked in Chinese compulsory PC filter plan
Linux is first OS to support USB 3.0
Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran?
Microsoft’s Free Antivirus Software – Will You Use It?
Samsung goes official on the WB1000/TL320 digicam
Over 50,000 Palm Pres Sold, Over 150,000 Pre Applications Downloaded
Epson to mass-produce world’s first HTPS-TFT panel
New AMD Neo Athlon / Turion chips emerge in HP Pavilion dv2z
Lycos To Relaunch Search Services In Europe, For Whatever Reason
‘Bionic ear’ can detect Wi-Fi, FM,GPS signals simultaneously
Does the Wii Provide A “Watered-Down” Game Experience?
Product News – OWC Announces DDR3 1066MHz RAM Upgrades for New MacBook Pro Models
Apple already testing 10.5.8 update to Mac OS X Leopard
Scientists Create Form of Pre-Life
Nobody Recognizes The Chrome Icon, So Google Wants You To Make A Video About It
Periodic table adding new element
How to modify RSS
How to Install Windows 7 from a Flash Drive
Windows 7 build 7229 leaked
Microsoft plays recession card with Novell
Opera lashes out over Microsoft’s browser removal
Six-Core Nehalem Processors Might Arrive This Year [Processors]
Two new Mac attacks surface
RedEye turns iPhone into universal remote control
Psystar Owes Apple $75k For Some Reason [Psystar]
AMD plans ‘Congo’ chipset for a future world of thin-and-lights, dodging netbooks for now
Doom Comes to the iPhone
Handlebar-mounted bike mp3 player sounds dumb but it’s totally not
Shuttle Endeavour set for grueling station mission
Twitter Starts Verifying Accounts Without Actually Verifying Them
DRM licensing group presses on with plan to plug analog hole

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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RSS Weekly Digest – #4

April 29th, 2009 by kteck | Comments Off | Filed in RSS Digest

Here are my news picks for the week…

Sorry for them being late but i had a busy start of week.

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

The story of the PlayStation
SlingPlayer for iPhone getting closer to release?
Apple may hear Verizon now
Google makes their own Digg, lets users pop stories
Will Oracle kill MySQL? Who cares?
Skype Cuts Prices On SkypeOut Service
Qualcomm, Broadcom reach $891 million settlement
Essential Tips to Get the Best from iTunes
Virus begins to attack PCs
First Android Netbook will cost $250?
Flip Video Ultra HD makes its unofficial debut, gets unboxed
Apple loses patent suit, will have to pay $19M
NVIDIA’s GT300 specs outed — is this the cGPU we’ve been waiting for?
FBI accuses Twitter user of massacre threats
Windows 7 – Gold – As Early as July?
Download Wall-E for just $62,000 Now!
Billionth iPhone App is a Freebie!
Review – Twitter Desktop Clients for Mac, Dual Review
Chalk Drawing Depicts Epic Browser War (With A Touch of Conan) [Browser War]

Saturday, April 25th, 2009yep

Steve Jobs On The Value Of Stock Options
German book publishers want Rapidshare blocked
Former AOL Exec Mike Jones To Become No. 2 At MySpace
Video: Recording analog audio to a floppy disk
New Snow Leopard beta build includes screen recording capabilities, a certain je ne sais quoi
Windows 7 reveals XP mode AKA the IT guy’s wet dream
21 Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures
Samsung plays catch-up with 32GB P3
Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon
Windows 7 Release Candidate 1’s Best Surprise New Features
Conficker virus begins to attack computers
Somniloquy external networking card lets PCS “sleep talk” essential connectivity functions
Microsoft training video reveals older prototype of Windows 7 “superbar”
Bugs Aside – Ubuntu 9.04 Is Pretty Slick

Friday, April 24th, 2009

It’s official: Windows 7 Release candidate available for download May 5th
No, This Dancing Building’s Bricks Are Not Falling Like Tetris [Art]
Hollywood attacks RealDVD in court
Model 2+ production seen as “unlikely,” says OQO exec
Coming Soon: Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC
Analysis: App Store now $1 million a day business, cloud mobile apps the next big thing
Windows 7 RC build 7100 leaked
Windows 7 Release Candidate Update
Microsoft axes Live Search Product Upload
Apple Loses Patent Lawsuit from Opti Inc on “Predictive Snooping”
Internet Explorer 8 Security
Irish reject e-voting, go back to paper
Microsoft Surface First-Run Experience
Geocities to close after 15 years of aesthetic “awesomeness”
Android-Based G1 Phone Sells One Million Units
News: Bump is billionth app downloaded, 13-year-old wins prizes

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Apple Questioned Again About a Mac Netbook
Jaunty Jackalope hops onto scene with GNOME 2.26, new features
Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries
iPhone OS devices continue to dominate mobile traffic

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

iSuppli: Kindle 2 costs twice as much to buy as it does to make
Apple iPhone & iPod Touch sales pass 37 million
Steve Riley on Windows 7 Security
Apple with “No Plans” to Change AT&T iPhone Exclusivity and Other Notes
Pixelpipe adds drag-and-drop uploading to Firefox
Make your own solid state drive with a CF card
Second Life gives users ability to filter Mature, X-rated content
Apple WWDC rumors: MacBook speed bumps, pro application upgrades (but where’s the netbook?)
Congress wants new probe into P2P file-sharing snafus
The EagleTec USB Nano flash drive: it doesn’t get much smaller
Panasonic makes school runs more cinematic with its in-dash Blu-ray player
OLPC waves goodbye to AMD for new XO laptop, adopts VIA chip
Face recognition comes to Flickr
MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and Pro Apps to See Updates at WWDC?

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

iTunes Price Hikes Hurt Some Track Rankings
Amazon Video on Demand goes high definition
Apple preparing to release new Snow Leopard beta build
From Mingebag To Gmod Activist
DiggBar Changes Live Today
Why Time Capsule Is Doomed to Suck
Rumor smash: Windows 7 will keep 6.1 versioning
Sony Pictures is on YouTube, Hulu, but not Joost anymore
Nvidia gives developers OpenCL driver and SDK support
Bluetooth “high speed” technology becomes official with 3.0 spec
GamePark Wiz app store coming this summer
VMware’s Cloud OS Is Compelling, But Closed
Google joins effort for 3D Web standard with new plugin, API
Windows 7 Starter Edition Only Runs 3 Applications at Once
End to End Trust and Windows 7
The iPhone app that ran the Boston Marathon
Xbox 360 ‘Game Of The Year’ bundle ships in May
A Peek Inside Windows 8: Coming in 2011 [Windows 8]
LEGO Rock Band officially announced, coming just in time for the holidays
Study: Illegal music downloaders buy 10 times as much legal music as non-illegal downloaders
Google links students, projects in Summer of Code
Windows 7 could change our perception of PCs
More Details of iPhone OS 3.0 ‘Voice Control’ Emerge
Gmail can now suggest recipients for you
AT&T plans to double its 3G network capacity
Google serves up brace of slightly skewed search tools
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone. What’s the deal?
Video: Sharp’s Mebius LCD trackpad
Fujitsu’s 10.1-inch LOOX M netbook looks good, positively average
OLED displays coming to half of all mobile phones in the next five years

Monday, April 20th, 2009

PSP firmware updated to v5.50
The ESA are fans of Pirate Bay decision
Jonathan DiCarlo: Do We Still Need Bookmarks?
Apple Launches Movie Downloads in German iTunes Store
Windows 7 security enhancements
Blu-ray in every home? Backers aim for $99 players
Windows 7 Starter Won’t Open Any Doors for Android or Linux
ISP Download Caps Not Dead, But Ought to Be
Windows 7 Security: Helping Enable the Mobile Workforce
Google tweaks Chrome with new tabs management features
Windows 7: A New Approach to Securing Today’s Enterprise
Skype coming to the DSi?
$400 Xbox 360 Elite Games of the Year bundle with Halo 3 and Fable 2 gets official
Tweetie for Mac now available
MSI intros the touchscreen Wind Top all-in-one US mod
Adobe brings Flash to the TV screen
Atempo Digital Archive Adds Full Mac OS X Support
The Pirate Bay loads cannon with official appeal
Play Garry’s Mod before you die!
Windows 7 Starter Edition headed for a netbook near you
Engadget’s take on the new mophie Juice Pack Air
Toshiba 10-inch Dynabook UX’s got talent
More Apple Netbook Rumors Pinpoint Foxconn as Manufacturer
Next Generation iPhone to Support HD Video and Apple TV-Like Behavior?
Oracle reels in Sun Microsystems with $7.4bn buy

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