Massive Credit Card Breach
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/VISA-MAsterCard-Payment-Processor-credit-card-breach,news-14661.html Update: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Visa-Mastercard-Security-Global-Payments-Fraud,news-14678.html
Apple’s iCloud: Who Designed This Crap!
Sorry, yet another anti-apple post. Can you blame me? 😛 http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/apple-icloud-failure-ipad,1-112.html
Google’s Home Entertainment System
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Android-Home-Google-I-O-android-Project-Tungsten-Google-Music,news-14142.html An FCC filing by Google has brought Project Tungsten back into the spotlight after nearly a year. ZoomNews of Google’s plans for a home entertainment system isn’t really new — the company demonstrated its hopes and dreams last year at Google I/O 2011 during the Day One Keynote. Essentially the company wants consumers to have a network […]
Die, VPN! We’re all “telecommuters” now—and IT must adjust
http://arstechnica.com/business/consumerization-of-it/2011/10/die-vpn-were-all-telecommuters-nowand-it-must-adjust.ars
[AskVG Apps] Download Free and Useful System Utilities, Windows Tweaking Software and Customization Tools
Nice group of freeware Win Customization programs here: http://www.askvg.com/downloads/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AskVG+%28AskVG%29
How To Create Customizable Multiboot System Rescue Disk
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-create-customizable-multiboot-system-rescue-disk/
Stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation
The Internet Blacklist Legislation – known as PROTECT IP Act in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House – is a threatening sequel to last year’s COICA Internet censorship bill. Like its predecessor, this legislation invites Internet security risks, threatens online speech, and hampers Internet innovation. Urge your members of Congress […]
Media Center Software / Hardware
Popcorn Hour: http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/ XBMC: http://xbmc.org/ PLEX: http://www.plexapp.com/ TVersity: http://tversity.com/ CinemaTube Mini: http://www.brite-view.com/cinemago.php Logitech Revue: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0040QE98O/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller= Boxee: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0038JE07O And of course there’s always the PS3, Xbox, and many others. These are just the most popular right now. There’s also apps like iMediaShare for Android that allow you to play media on your smartphone from any DLNA media server (I like http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/ personally). I’ll be adding […]
Pretty amazing stuff
These new cameras capture light fields, which allow you to change the focus of the image after the picture has been taken. Although the technology has been around for years, it’s now available for use in cameras and desktop applications, where it used to take entire rooms of super computers to do the calculations. Check […]