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Want a Free VPN for Public WiFi Hotspots?
2008-06-05 13:52:00
Chris Pirillo – When it comes to accessing the Internet when you’re away from home, you never really know what you’re going to get. You have to stay secure to protect yourself. A friend of mine emailed me the other day, talking about this exact situation. He was traveling, and had to check his Gmail from an unsecured public computer. He apparently forgot to ... read more
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Essential Truths in Information Security: Be Reliable and Trustworthy
2008-06-05 06:05:00
Kees Leune – As an information security professional, everything you do has to lead to one thing only: confidence in information. In order to achieve this, it is of paramount importance to have excellent working relationships with the people who actual use the… read more
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Feeling Sick? Time To Visit Doctor Google
2008-06-05 06:05:00
Geeks are Sexy Technology News – By Mark ONeill Google have announced their latest project – Google Health – which is a service where you can have your entire medical history uploaded into your Google account. But before you start hyper-ventilating, Google ... read more
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Backup Files When Computer is Idle with IdleBackup
2008-06-04 19:57:00
Life Rocks! 2.0 – Many time we forget to back up files because we may not like to run another program in the background for backing up data as this could reduce the speed of your computer. IdleBackup is a free Windows application which can back up your personal files and folders when the computer is idle. The best ... read more
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Could Wikia Search be a serious rival to Google?
2008-06-04 19:35:00
Geeks are Sexy Technology News – Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is hoping that the Wikipedia magic will rub off on his latest project – to build a user community ?wiki? search engine – unimaginatively called ?Wikia Search ?. The search engine has been in existence for quite a while. I have had an beta invite to look at it and poke around at it with others, but yesterday marked the first time that anyone could participate without an invite. In fact, before today, I hadn?t taken a look at the search engine in quite a while and I was really pleasantly surprised at ... read more
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From Dell: Yes, You Can Still Get XP On A New Box
2008-06-04 19:35:00
PCMech – If you were thinking of buying a new Dell PC but Vista makes you want to crawl under the bed, go into fetal position and suck your thumb, you can cancel those plans because Dell does have a few boxes that you can have delivered brandy-new with XP instead of Vista. There are 4 boxes. Two ... read more

Windows Search 4.0
2008-06-04 19:35:00
The Lazy Admin – Quick post to let all you Lazy Admins out there that Windows Search 4.0 has been released. There is a long list improvements. I have been using the preview release for the past month, and I definitely have noticed performance benefits on my laptop. For those who haven’t tried Windows Search, its a Lazy Admins best friend. The only downside is the search is so good, I forget where everything actually is located in Windows ... read more

The Planet: Power is Back, Migrations Continue
2008-06-04 19:34:00
Data Center Knowledge – The Planet says it has successfully restored power to the first floor of its Houston data center, and is gradually bringing affected customer servers back online. About 500 servers are being migrated to other data centers operated by The Planet , while the 2,500 servers remaining on the first floor ... read more
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Yahoo bribed employees to foil Microsoft
2008-06-04 14:19:00
IT Blogwatch – It’s IT Blogwatch: in which angry shareholders uncover Yahoo !‘s poison-pill shenanigans. Not to mention Wally’s latest excuse… Juan Carlos Perez reportz: Yahoo Inc. has lost a battle to keep information about its operations confidential after a judge decided to unseal documents filed by shareholders suing the company over its handling of Microsoft Corp.‘s unsolicited acquisition offer. The 64-page complaint is full of blistering allegations, copies of internal Yahoo documents and e-mails and blow-by-blow accounts of ... read more
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Embracing OpenID
2008-06-04 14:15:00
PaulStamatiou.com – I first heard about OpenID in 2005 and have kept hearing about it more and more since then. I never actually jumped on the bandwagon and started using it though – until now. I won?t go into the details of OpenID because you?ve probably heard about it just as much as I have. The goal ... read more

Americans Spend More than 4.5 Hours Per Month Browsing on Smartphones
2008-06-04 14:15:00
Mobile Messaging 2.0 – In a release published by M:Metrics last month, a study shows that the American population spends over 4.5 hours browsing on their smartphones. Looking at the trend it seems the most popular site visited by US users was Craigslist. To me, that?s surprising? then again I?m not a big Craigslist user. UK consumers ... read more
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Firefox and NES fusion
2008-06-04 14:14:00
Gamertell – This has to be the sketchiest Firefox add-on I have ever seen. A user named FaCuZ2 has created a Firefox add-on application called FireNES which allows users to play 2,500 NES games within their Firefox browser without downloading any kind of additional programs or files. Users simply create an account on the Mozilla site, download Firefox, download the application and then begin playing ... read more
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Community 2.0 (Part 3: Leading Enterprise 2.0 Companies)
2008-06-04 01:57:00
The AppGap – One of the highlights, for me, of Community 2.0 was to hear Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com talk about the kind of company he built. Two of the fundamental strategic choices that have made Zappos so successful: The decision to shift from shipping orders through suppliers to running its own 24*7 warehouse. This decision cost the ... read more
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Good-Bye Mr. Gates
2008-06-03 23:12:00
Cyber Cynic – It was appropriate that Bill Gates last major public speech was not to the masses, but to developers at Microsofts TechEd conference. We often forget that the billionaire great white shark of the technology business started as a geek. ... read more
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Links Matter More on the Mobile Web
2008-06-03 23:12:00
Natural Search and Mobile SEO Blog – It?s true that there?s currently very little cross-linking on the mobile Web. This is often cited by those who argue that linking is relatively unimportant in mobile SEO. However, it seems to me just the opposite conclusion should be reached from the understanding of this fact: that a user would defy convention and link to a mobile site from a mobile site is a stronger signal of quality than a link from a desktop web site. It?s clear from the mobile search engine results pages (SERPs) that ... read more
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Generator Failure Slows The Planets Recovery
2008-06-03 17:30:00
Data Center Knowledge – A backup generator at The Planet failed last night as the company sought to restore power to its Houston data center, which was damaged by an explosion and fire Saturday night. The generator problems left about half of the 3,000 servers on the first floor of the Houston H1 data center offline ... read more
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Is Twitter a security risk?
2008-06-03 17:30:00
Network Security Blog – I use Twitter , it?s a fun tool to keep half an eye out on some of my friends and other interesting people are doing right now. I think it?s a pretty decent communication tool. But like many tools it?s easy to over communicate. Some of the people I follow have started using ... read more
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Microsoft winning the battle. Hands down
2008-06-03 14:03:00
TechAid – About two years back Microsoft was losing the battle in the IT wars. It was getting poached by Google, Sun, Yahoo, Open source – Linux, Apple, IBM, Mozilla etc. Some even predicted that the Microsoft empire would crumble down. But after these two years of lull, Microsoft has managed to surprise all of us with a series of product releases. It has engaged in a lot of battles and is emerging a winner. Windows 7, Xbox, World Wide Telescope, Microsoft surface, Live Mesh, Silver-Light and Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft is ... read more
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Twitter & Jott: Look Ma, no hands
2008-06-03 14:02:00
Enterprise Topics – I am going to regret ever trying this but I was talking with my friend Dennis Stevenson on Google Talk tonight and we were admiring how social networking has opened so many doors for us from a networking standpoint. In our conversation I mentioned half jokingly that all we need is to be able to send Tweets by phone. Then I remember trying out Jott several months ago which is a service that converts voice to SMS text messages from any phone. So I figured that I could hack up something to intercept the SMS text message to send to my blog which automatically feeds new blog posts to my twitter page. When I went to Jott, which I had ... read more
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New Technology Hides Messages in Internet Phone Calls
2008-06-03 04:33:00
Geeks are Sexy Technology News – A couple of Polish scientists have come up with a way to encode secret messages within the data of internet-based VoIP calls. The men, from the Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw, designed a steganographic system ? a special kind of code that allows content to be encrypted inside of other content, unbeknownst ... read more
More About: Internet , Phone , Calls , Messages

Cross-Device-Type Log Management vs Device-Specific Log Management
2008-06-03 01:25:00
Anton Chuvakin on Security – Now, I have to first admit that, in general, dealing with logs on a device-specific basis is a cruel joke. What I mean here is when you gather Windows logs in one place, Linux logs in another place, database logs in yet another place all in different formats, all in different systems not connected to each others, all managed by different people who dont talk to each other (and sometimes hate each other). Yuck Basically, this situation is logs at their worst: all different, ... read more
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Revisited: How Much Traffic Warrants Dedicated Hosting?
2008-06-03 01:25:00
Connected Internet – Back in December I posted this feedback article, wanting to know just how much traffic warranted a jump to a dedicated server. Actually, I was just chomping at the bit to put my site on a new box after browsing inexpensive dedicated servers, and I had become tired of excessive resource usage shutdowns and increasingly ... read more
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Privacy is dead
2008-06-03 01:24:00
Cyber Cynic – A friend of mine recently brought to my attention that the South Florida Sun-Sentinel recently decided to investigate local school teachers on Facebook. Like far too many Facebook pages, some of the teachers were, shall we say, indiscreet about what they do away from the schoolroom. Some of them were shocked that anyone could see their Facebook pages. Idiots. Privacy is dead. ... read more
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Savvis Partners With SAP on All-in-One
2008-06-03 01:11:00
Data Center Knowledge – Savvis Inc. (SVVS) today announced a hosting relationship with SAP America, Inc., the US business unit of the giant German business software company. Savvis has become a certified SAP hosting partner and is launching a hosted infrastructure platform for the SAP Business All-in-One solution, the… read more
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How to build a better cheap mini-laptop
2008-06-02 22:49:00
The World Is My Office – ATHENS, GREECE — ASUS shocked the industry last year by introducing a good-enough, tiny PC that had what turns out to have been the killer feature: low price. Competitors scrambled to churn out underpowered, under-priced mini me-too laptops. What now? ... read more
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Data Centres Set to Overtake The Aviation Industry?s Carbon Footprint
2008-06-02 22:49:00
Tideway Systems – It?s often hard for people outside of the slightly specialised world of Distributed Computing and Data Centres to get their heads around quite how critical and complex they have become. So I was it was a bittersweet moment to find this article in the Economist last week. Buy our stuff, save the planet. May 22nd 2008 (http://www.economist.com/research/articl esbysubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=34 8909&story_id=11412495). Sweet since it certainly serves to put into perspective dark art of ... read more
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Adobe Acrobat 9.0 With Video Support & Acrobat.Com Online Application Launc
2008-06-02 22:47:00
Tech Guide – Adobe today announced a major update to their Acrobat product to the next version Adobe Acrobat 9.0, the final version of the product is scheduled to be released next month, with exciting new features like embedding of third-party applications like flash, video, slides and even maps. One the most exciting new feature is support for embedded forms allowing PDF creators to track and collect data from ... read more
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FeedCompare – Compare FeedBurner Subscriber Numbers
2008-06-02 17:06:00
Shankar Ganesh’s Tech Blog – Bloggers are probably going to love this tool. It?s a bit addictive, and does its job perfectly. FeedCompare .com lets you compare FeedBurner subscriber numbers of up to four blog feeds in a row. Just go to the site, and key in your blog feed?s URL and those of your competitors, and it?ll show you ... read more
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Windows Vista Springboard: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accel
2008-06-02 17:06:00
The Lazy Admin – A few weeks ago I posted about some of the tools Microsoft provides to help establish the costs and saving that deploying Vista can bring. One of the issues that I have is how do we get the numbers to fill in those forms well MS has you covered there too. This tool is really useful. With the MS Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator you can scan the computers in your network for information such as which OS and Service pack they are running, and if they are good candidates to ... read more
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Extensive Damage at The Planet’s Data Center
2008-06-02 17:01:00
Data Center Knowledge – Damage from Saturday nights explosion at The Planet s Houston data center was more extensive than initially believed, the company said late Sunday. CEO Doug Erwin reported that the explosion and fire destroyed the cabling under the first floor of the data center, known as H1. The Planet expects to ... read more
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