No…we haven’t all of a sudden started to listen and idolize Kelly Clarkson… Breakaway is an app for a mac! Amazing What happens is, when your headphones become unplugged, Breakaway will auto pause your itunes music. I know, this is kinda useless, but idk, a bit nifty. Saves you from having to pause it Breakaway
I really want to know how many of you have gone into the guts of FF and been totally overwhelmed by the number of configuration options. The about:config page is just absolutely insane. Really powerful, but insane at the same time. To help you….theres Configuration Mania. Its a firefox plugin that organizes most of the options available in about:config. Sure, there are still some other options that aren’t there, but really, those probably aren’t going to be used very often. Check it out: Configuration Mania
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
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
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
“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