Category: New Technology
WordPress adds support for Google Gears
When I logged into my WordPress-driven website, I noticed a new link called Turbo on the top left: Clicking it brought this up: Like Google Docs and Remember the Milk, it essentially is using Google Gears to speed up page load time of WordPress’ images, scripts, and CSS files. So what is Google Gears? According…
Convert YouTube videos into MP3
A few posts ago I showed how to Save YouTube videos into your iPod. But what if you simply want the audio? Well you’re in luck. A website just popped up that allows you to do just that: FLV.TO It’s easy and simple to use. 1. You can either enter the YouTube URL or upload…
Microsoft’s forensic USB thumb drive
Here’s an interesting article on the Seattle Times website about a small plug-in device that Microsoft “quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies.” Dubbed the COFFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor), it contains “150 commands that can dramatically cut the time it takes to gather digital evidence, which is becoming more important in real-world…
Masquerade your e-mail address
The folks at Carnegie Mellon University created an application called MailHide that will assist you in masquerading your e-mail address from spammers. What it does is it only shows your e-mail address partially, like your…@domain.com. And if someone wants/needs to obtain your complete, true e-mail address, they can by solving two CAPTCHAs ((Completely Automated Public…
Cool sketch program from MIT
MIT calls it Assist Sketch Understanding System and Operation. As the video description states, you need to see it to understand it. Very cool… It’s not a free program, but there is a free app called Phun that is somewhat similar.
Cold Boot encryption memory hack
I read an article wherein researchers from Princeton University cooled down memory to -58 degrees F which allowed them to examine the encrypted contents of the memory for as long as 10 minutes. Microsoft, however, says its unlikely. To be clear, encrypted data here is data that gets encrypted by apps like Vista’s BitLocker or…