Archive for September, 2007

convicted hacker tells how he hacked a million dollars worth of services

September 29, 2007

Robert Moore tells the press in the US how easy it was to hack into VoIP services and routers with usually little more than the default passwords that come shipped with the devices. Not surprisingly, a lot of people still don’t get the importance of security within their devices – and this case plainly shows [...]

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convert your files online for free

September 28, 2007

YouConvert is the name of the website that lets you convert your files between all the well known file formats. You can convert audio files, documents, videos and images. It’s really simple and do you know the best thing? It’s all for free! Firstly you select the type of media you want to convert, find [...]

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amazing german automated carpark

September 27, 2007

This is an amazing promotional video from APT, a company specialising in automated carparking systems, that really shows how well it can be done. I watched another video only yesterday from a company in Portugal that was similar, but didn’t have the same level of slickness that you see here. I’m sure it’s been nicely [...]

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57 things we know because we game

September 21, 2007

Just a quick post, for a bit of Friday humour. Here are the things we, as gamers, have learnt from our years of late nights and bruised thumbs. [SHOW ME]

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cuba to rid themselves of capitalist microsoft bourgeoisie

September 19, 2007

I know, I don’t blog for ages, then all these great stories appear when I (finally) get a few minutes to write. And I know the title is a bit strong, but it’s damn interesting and makes for a great anti-microsoft story.. It appears that Cuba wants to get rid of all of it’s Windows [...]

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cardboard office

September 19, 2007

This is what happens when you take bored people, a bit of time, and someone on holiday.. We did something similar to this, but built a colleague an office out of mobile phone boxes – it even had windows!! (Hi Matt.) The idea of actually building things out of cardboard though really does show the [...]

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USB 3.0 Spec for 2008

September 19, 2007

At the start of 2008, the powers that be (Intel, Microsoft, HP & Texas amongst others) will be revealing the new specification for USB 3.0. One of the most interesting things about this new spec is the inclusion of an optical fibre in the spec for higher data transfer rates. Along with the traditional metal [...]

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share an iTunes library with different users of the same computer

September 8, 2007

I’ve had a need for this for a while, but just haven’t had the time to do a bit of research – I wish I had sooner, because it’s really easy! The problem I had (and you might have too) is that you have multiple users on the same PC, who all want to listen [...]

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