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A researcher who examined 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords that were recently exposed online has published an analysis of the list and found that “123456? was the most commonly used password, appearing 64 times.
After months of testing, Mozilla has finally released Firefox 3.6, the newest version of its popular browser.
If you or somebody you know was recently infected because they were tricked into opening a fake shipping label in an email, there’s a quick and easy way to get rid of it. At least, …
Quick and easy mod to a $4 battery powered latte foamer for your office, so that you can run it off of your computer’s USB port.
The latest laptop concept by Samsung, showcased at the CES 2010, will definitely take you by surprise with its immaculate transparency.
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte’s non-profit effort aimed at putting cheap educational laptops into the hands of developing world schoolchildren, is working on an upgrade to its so-called XO computer, once …
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension gui:config adds an advanced settings panel with easy access to options normally hidden behind cryptic about:config options. Once installed, the extension adds a new Advanced Settings item to the Tools menu …
It watches falling sand in an hourglass with an optical sensor. That data is sent via the Arduino USB output to the PC where it’s analyzed. This entropy is useful for all your random number …
At first glance, it looks like a pile of junk. The sharpest among you will probably realize it’s a PC.
Imation’s Pro WX Wireless USB hard drive provides a unique combination of speed, capacity and security in a convenient 3.5-inch form factor. With a fast Wireless USB data transfer rate of up to 15MBs/second, the …
Created by Russia’s AlestRukov, each one is handcrafted using cultivated sustainable woods and carved, sanded and polished to a shiny finish using linseed oil and carnuba wax. Each one is built from the finest electronic components, with …
CompuLab introduces a new member to the fit-PC family of miniature PCs. fit-PC2i is targeting networking and industrial applications. Based on Intel Atom Z5xx CPU, the fit-PC2i is the smallest, most power efficient PC available on …
The designers Yoonsang Kim & Eunsung Park might have a solution with Keystick. It’s a full-size keyboard in its unfurled form, but then it collapses like an accordion into a nice compact package when it’s …
Here’s the lock of the future. This Chinavision facial recognition door lock is packing a couple of night vision cameras, using accurate 3D tech to recognize your face in a fraction of a second. It’s …
T3Desk lets you manage your applications more easily in a 3D desktop adding the third dimension to your Windows screen. “3Dmized” windows will appear in three dimensions and transparent on your screen and have the …
The easiest way to try and shrink a PDF file is to perform a little trick, which basically is printing the PDF document to a PDF file. Sounds strange? It is. Basically, you open the PDF …
BarcodesInc has a free tool on their website that allows you to do this. The other cool thing about this service is that it can be called via a URL to create barcodes directly on …
Windows Surface Scanner is a free, fast utility that scans your hard drive(s) for physical errors. It will examine each sector on your hard drive for read errors and reports them if found. It is …
The main idea of Autosizer is to keep the interface minimal, which is especially useful if you’re on a notebook with a small display. If you’re not using the searchbar the URL bar can be …
If you use Skype a lot for talking with family, friends, clients, or business associates, you might run into a few instances where you would like to record the conversation. There are a lot of …
USB flash drives are great because they are really cheap and you can conveniently move data between computers. The only problem is when you store sensitive data on a USB drive and it gets lost …
Bluetooth devices are very common nowadays. By using this technology it is so easy to share files between very different devices. If your computer or laptop has a Bluetooh dongle or built-in module, Windows 7 …
