Friday, November 18, 2011
25 Worst Passwords of 2011 [STUDY]
“Password” ranks first on password management application provider SplashData’s annual list of worst internet passwords, which are ordered by how common they are. (“Passw0rd,” with a numeral zero, isn’t much smarter, ranking 18th on the list.)
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Google Lets Wireless Access Point Owners Opt Out of Its Database
Google Location Server is a large location database that lists access points all over the world. Its purpose is not to identify people, Google says, but to be able to quickly determine the location of a mobile phone owner by looking for wireless APs that are physically close to that person.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Siri, Read My Mind: Did Hackers Just Build a Brain-Powered iPhone?
If you believe this video — and that’s a big if — the era of thought-controlled phones has begun. A pair of hobbyist hackers claim to have taken Siri, the iPhone 4S feature that obeys voice commands, and turned it into an app that obeys brainwave patterns.
“It works! It really works! It’s so freaking amazing,” Josh Evans and Ollie Hayward announced Tuesday on the blog they created to chronicle what they call “Project Black Mirror.”
Friday, November 11, 2011
Google Paid Search Products You Need to Know
Thursday, November 10, 2011
It’s Official: Flash Mobile Player is Dead
“We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook,”
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Two Schools of Thought: The Key Difference Between Apple and Google
Google and Apple are technology behemoths that bucked the system, created game-changing
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
What Advice Did Steve Jobs Give to Mark Zuckerberg?
The revelations come as part of an in-depth interview between PBS’s Charlie Rose and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. The extensive interview covers all of the bases, such as whether Facebook will ever build games (no, Zuck says) and what Zuckerberg thinks of Google+ (he calls it “their own little version of Facebook”).
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Shutdown a computer from mobile phone
Extract these to your C:\ drive so the path to the shutdown batch file is C:\sms_functions\shutdown.bat
Open up Microsoft Outlook, and if you haven't already, configure it to your e-mail. Go into Tools -> Options, click the Mail Setup tab, then click the Send/Receive button.