If you are reading this, chances are you shop on the Internets, and unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the Internets is a series of tubes infested with ebil hackers who wants to jack your stuffs. Enter the SmartSwipe, a tiny black plastic Personal Credit Card Reader and Secure Online Shopping [...]
USB Flash Drives are invading our planet, this time in the form of StarWars Stormtroopers by Tyme Machines. The PEZ Dispenser looking, novelty USB Flash drive is pretty cool and comes with a removable head protecting the actual USB connector. Surprising bonus, there is a little light inside the figure that blinks during file [...]
OK here is my iPad rant whine. When it comes to Apple and All Things Mac, I am a little like Agent Fox Mulder from the X-Files – I want to believe! But the Apple iPad product announcement left me seriously underwhelmed. I was watching Steve present his Magnum Opus and hearing the [...]
Apple announced its first Mac OS X security updates for 2010 which will fix at least 12 serious vulnerabilities. The kind of vulnerabilities that Apple would have you believe only happen on a PC. Classics like malicious code execution from tampered audio files (mp4), spiked TIFF files and SSL shenanigans to name a few. [...]
This is a quick how-to on Windows GodMode (or God Mode) for Windows 7 and Windows Vista (32-bit). For those of you new to GodMode for Windows… it is a very cool trick to get all of your operating systems control panels in a single magic folder.
Read on for details of how to use this [...]
Ever wondered, just how geeky are you? Here is a clock that will test your nerdy street cred. From GeekCook in China comes this funky wall clock that separates the n00bs from the 1337s. See how many you can figure out before cheating. If you having a problem with most of these, go back [...]
This week, in the pursuit of the mighty dollar, the douchebags at Facebook decided to a$$rape “do bad things to” your online privacy. The so called new privacy settings, while giving the perception of more security options, actually expose more of Facebook information to the public than ever before. Now, before I go on [...]
It brings a tear to my eye that after so many years of dragging behind, Linux has finally hit a major milestone and got some real malware! I hope Microsoft is shaking in their boots! People actually bothering to write malware for Ubuntu is a clear indication of Linux’s massive penetration into the mainstream! [...]
We all know what a pain in the ass it is to find Christmas Presents that are “different” and don’t suck. Year after year, this tradition continues taxing our imaginations and pocketbooks. One of the funky cool oddities that I will be gifting this year is the Swann Flashlight DVR. That’s right, it’s a [...]
Clearly ignoring Senator Ted Stevens axiom that the Internet is not something that you just dump something on, Netgear announced their new Open Source WNR3500L Router. Backed by mucho hype and astroturfing, Netgears spokesperson claimed that, The debut of our Open Source RangeMax Wireless-N Gigabit Router is significant as it is the first full-featured Wireless-N [...]