This is a REALLY useless utility. This isn’t even like there’s a possible use for it, this program honestly, was made because it COULD be made. IE Retitler does exactly what it says. It lets you retitle the screens of IE to whatever you want. Funny…there aren’t any preferences, plugins, or help files. Really…all you can do with it is leave cute messages to yourself when you glance down at your taskbar or the IE bar. Have fun with it Check it out: Brenton Fletcher’s Portfolio
To be frank though, there are some pretty nice little apps in this portfolio. Have fun flipping through it and downloading a few
Indeed…sometimes, I have these bouts of insaneness and I open up task manager, and start killing memory hogging processes. This usually takes some time as I scroll through XP’s 60ish processes and Vista’s obscene 100 processes. Well…I shall do that no longer! What you do with this little app is mark up system and critical processes, etc, that you want to keep. Press the big kill button and everything else goes poof! However, what you really want to do before you do this, is know what you’re killing first. Because, honestly, for your own sanity, don’t kill processes you dont even know First, figure out what all those nasty processes are, THEN do this. Check it out: EndItAll
It was almost 207 years ago that the first battery was developed by Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the first time, electricity could be gathered and stored, instead of just being handled as a static shock. So the next time you open your laptop, listen to your mp3 player, or pick up the TV remote controll, remember that the battery started with Volta.
And. here’s a list of some common things we use all the time that depend on batteries :
Bluetooth devices
Cars
Cell Phones
Cordless power tools
Digital watches
Digital cameras
Flashlights
Laptops
MP3 players
Pacemakers
PDAs
Telephones - non-cell (Early phones used batteries to keep the phone line voltage up.)
TV Remotes
Okay, so its not the best list ever, and without batteries in general, we wouldn’t have made nearly as many advances in electrical technology as we have today.
As usual, if anyone has any other good ideas/strange places that we find batteries, feel free to leave your ideas in the comments so I can add em to the list.
For all you people who have risked it and jailbroke your iphone, and it’s not a brick yet…heres a pretty awesome little app for your phone. You can control your PC or Mac with your iphone/ipod touch. It’s essentially a touchpad with all the needs of a touchpad
An interesting application for today…this little app starts applications at startup according to if your Caps Lock button is on or off. I know, this sounds a bit weird and probably useless…but…think about this. For example, most people, open up IE (GASP) or FF, outlook, etc, once their computer turns on. Its kinda like your default workspace. Well…what if some days, you honestly just want to check something real quick and don’t want everything popping up, while most days you want everything there? Capster! Set it so all your daily programs run if caps lock isn’t on, and if caps lock IS on, nothing loads. That way, when you’re logging in, you can determine how much stuff you want to load when you login. It could come in nifty
Heh….Well, you’d think this was out of a science fiction plot, but…people have developed a prototype to possible telepathic chat. Electronic of course. There is a neckband that is worn to detect nerve signals you send to your vocal chords. However, there’s more…you can do this voicelessly, but still talk at the same time. It can differentiate between voiceless signal, and your normal talking.However, the problem at the moment, is that it can only detect about 150 words and phrases. Their working on a better version that detects phonemes, which would allow software to convert that into actual words. We’re getting there Check out the entire article on NewsScientist.com
Take a look at this computer-controled Etch-A-Sketch that writes out the time every minute, then automatically flips to clear itself and then records the new time. I’d like to see a more detailed drawing of what time it is (the simple outline of the line seems a bit plain to me, and also a bit small for the size of the screen), but then again, I’ve never tried to program anything like this, and its probably more complicated then I think. Either way, its a cool use for a etch-a-sketch.
“A security researcher has released an easy-to-use tool that accesses locked Windows computers in seconds without entering a password.
The tool, which was released Tuesday by Adam Boileau, works by connecting a Linux machine to the Firewire port of the target PC and modifying the password protection that’s stored in local memory.
The attack exploits a well-known weakness in Firewire that makes it easy for connected devices to read and write to the memory of the host machine. Similar hacks work on machines running OS X and Linux (see here).
Of course, the attack depends on having physical access to the targeted machine, and as most El Reg readers know, anyone who has physical control of the PC owns it. Then again, password protections have been a useful way to briefly secure a machine while a user runs to the bathroom. Until now. As Boileau’s tool makes clear, such protections can be bypassed in a matter of seconds.”
Ever wondered what the code to a computer virus looks like?
Neither have I. But this guy has taken the actual source code of common computer viruses and turned it into a visual image of each computer virus.
I’d like to know more about how he did it, but the article doesn’t say, it just includes some very cool pictures.
No….it doesn’t remove all the noise that you hear while you’re trying to concentrate, although that would be REALLY nice. This little program removes digital noise from photographs. This is really obvious when you’re either taking a photograph at high zoom (when camera starts digital extrapolating) or when you’re taking photos at night and you have a high ISO on. Its all the little red and yellow dots that appear over the image. This program learns as it fixes noise and removes it to provide a much cleaner image. Now…sadly, this thing is one of the few programs that is posted at flashladybug that…isn’t free However, you can clear up a few photos using the trial edition which is for 15 days, or buy the full version for 20 bucks. Still kind of sad that it isn’t free. I had expected the standard edition to be free and the profession ed to be paid…but such is not the case. Check it out: Imagenomic
