Robot Easter Egg
Type “about:robots” in the address bar on Firefox 3.0 to see a little bit of wisdom form our metallic brethren. If you stumble upon any more Firefox easter eggs drop a comment so we can check them out. Remember, Robots are Your Plastic Pal who’s fun to be with.
How To Start A Fire With Air
This is one of those things that everyone should just have in their car for unforeseen emergencies. A fire-piston will allow you to start a fire anywhere at anytime without the use of a lighter or matches.
“The principle of increasing temperature by method of compressing air is explained by the adiabatic process in which the [...]
Poor Mans 3d Scanner
Don’t have $4000 + to purchase a high end 3d scanner? Using a simple web cam, a free (as in beer) piece of windows software and a laser line level you too can achieve the same stunning results. The David Laserscanner does just that. Here’s what you’ll need to get started:
- A camera (e.g. web [...]
Webstatistics 2.0
Are you a web designer? Do you own a web site? Well if you are a stats junkie like the rest of us, here is the site for you: http://www.xinureturns.com/
As the site says, it’s “Page Rank and much more”. It would be a bit much to list everything that this site looks up about your [...]
tech.nocr.at IT Helpdesk Policy
The IT department here at tech.nocr.at has taken up a new policy on help desk questions. I better get my fire retardant suit on before calling them
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Scripting is baaaad
So, on Monday I reported on why you shouldn’t allow Flash on your network with the article: Nmap 127.0.0.1: Flash Style . Kind of hinting toward how a malicious site could scan your internal network without triggering your firewall, IPS/IDS, or sometimes even a host based firewall/ips. Today, I have a new threat that is [...]
Are you secure: Secunia to the rescue
Secunia.com has been a great resource of vulnerability and virus information over the years for Black, Grey, and White hat hackers alike. Recently they released a BETA project that looks promising and could be the first step into a “package manager” for Windows. In there own words:
A new addition to the Secunia Software Inspector series, [...]
Yoggie Pico Firewall
We all know how necessary it is to have some form of virus or spyware protection on our computers, we also know how great a hit they can be to processor performance when we are stuck using a slow laptop. The Yoggie Pico offloads those security requirements to a small USB dongle that serves as [...]
MicPort Pro: Podcasting Dream
If you’re like me you probably own a metric ton load of microphones from all of those podcasts you might do (okay I realize some of you might not do podcasts). I’ve been known to drop a pretty penny on microphones and other gear, hell I even own a mic that I paid over $500 [...]
1000 Foot Wi-FI. Yes I said 1000 Feet!
Anything that can claim to connect via Wi-Fi from 1000 feet sounds like crap to me, but the Wi-Fire by hField can actually do just that.
hField claims that the Wi-Fire can increase your Wi-Fi signal by using a powerful internal directional antenna, a high sensitivity receiver and some software. If the device can actually do [...]
A basic server for under $100
If your looking for a second computer to run some basic tasks around the house like a small web server or a file server and don’t want to hack your way into a Slug box then look no further than this compact system from Data Evolution Corporation.
The decTOP computer system comes with 128MB of RAM, [...]
TokBox – Instant Video Chat
Toxbox is a free service that lets you talk with your friends over live video. It allows you to setup a video chat in seconds. I was able to get up and running in literally minutes. I was prompted to invite someone to the chat via email. They click the link and can participate even [...]
Media downloading made simple
Ever seen an online video you wanted to save for later? Something informative, or just plain hysterical? I have. I’ve tried the Firefox Plugin “Video Downloader“. It works, but you have to be using Firefox (Yes, there still are people in the world who don’t use it) and that doesn’t make it very portable. Then [...]
Firefox: 400 Million Strong
Firefox has made the 400 million mark, quite impressive. The open source browser has only been around for about 3 years, so achieving this number is quite impressive. There are reportedly about 120 million or so regular Firefox users, which makes me wonder what happened to the other 280 million went.
81% of our readers are [...]
