Category Archives: hardware & software

Microsoft’s google killer: Bing

Now that Microsoft’s Bing has been out for a couple weeks I’m wondering everyone’s impression.  I like the simple interface with minimal ad’s and clutter.  Nothing like the MSN search.  It looks awfully similar to Google’s interface. However, I’m very … Continue reading

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Windows: Keyboard Kung Fu

Here’s a few [lesser] known Windows shortcuts: (feel free to share more in the comments!) WinKey + E : Windows Explorer WinKey + R : Run WinKey + F : Find (Windows Search) WinKey + L : Lock computer WinKey … Continue reading

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Trend Officescan – Proof of concept

In April a Trend vulnerability was discovered.  The Trend real time scan service can be exploited by running a scan on a long directory name.  It’s surprising that this vulnerability was discovered and yet is still exploitable in the latest … Continue reading

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Drupal Upgrade Procedure

Drupal is a content management system — you can think of it as WordPress on steroids. I would like to say that Drupal is majorly lacking in its upgrade procedure. The Drupal upgrade procedure is stone age. Security advisories seem … Continue reading

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Best Disk Cloning Software – Freeware

Clonezilla dd – classic! PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost) QTparted – from helix or backtrack other live CD etc. Recovery Live CDs: Parted Magic. SystemRescueCD. Trinity Rescue Kit. Recovery Is Possible. GParted-Clonezilla LiveCD. Ultimate Boot-CD Clonezilla Live

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IE8 Released

In case you haven’t heard Internet Explorer 8 was released yesterday. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx I played around with it a little last night.  Unfortunately it’s the same user interface as IE7.  Where IE8 really steps it up … Continue reading

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Office 2007 and productivity

In case you haven’t seen or heard the new Microsoft Office 2007 includes a completely overhauled user interface dubbed Fluent. I’m been lucky enough at work to be included in our pilot program. Office 2007 features a new “ribbon” across … Continue reading

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iPhone 3.0

Normally we don’t like to link directly to news articles but this one is worth a read.  It describes some of the new features possible with the new version of the iPhone OS, 3.0: http://i.gizmodo.com/5171796/iphone-30-os-guide-everything-you-need-to-know

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Ford (Microsoft) Sync: WOW

I had the chance to ride in a friend’s Ford Fusion over the weekend – first time in this car. The Fusion is one of a handful of automobiles that features Ford Sync which was developed through a partnership by … Continue reading

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Cracking Windows SAM file

A friend of mine showed me a great online video shows cracking the Window’s SAM file using the BackTrack live CD. The Windows SAM file which is a database stored as a registry file stores users’ passwords in a hashed … Continue reading

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