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Find the Latest Movies with mIRC

To use IRC you need a small program like mIRC, an IRC client for Windows, written by Khaled Mardam-Bey. mIRC is a friendly IRC client that is well equipped with options and tools. mIRC is shareware, which means that you can download mIRC and try it out freely for 30 days to evaluate it. If during, or at the end of, the evaluation period you decide that you would like to continue using mIRC, you must register your copy.

GMail Notifier goes legit

Google now has a beta GMail notifier available. Download, and enjoy. As a bonus, it even handles mailto links!

Secure Is As Secure Does

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is upon us, and an exploit has already been found. The exploit doesn't use a flaw in the new SP2 code, but a flaw that MS didn't fix when making SP2. I guess we can chalk this up as XP SP2's first exploit, but I feel cheated that it doesn't involve any of the new innovations SP2 is incorperating.

Time to get rid of the 486!

If you're like me and have way to many old computers lying around, you'll be happy to know that there is a free way to recycle them (for a short time). Through Labor Day, Office Depot will accept a variety of junk free of charge. Come on, you have to know that no one on eBay is willing to buy your IBM PC Jr! Finally, Chopper_D can find a home for that Apple IIp! Why not help the environment and recycle it? Thanks to Boing Boing for the link.

Who needs a cameraphone anyway?

Finally a cell phone that not only let's you call a cab, but actually tells you when you should. Introducing the breathalyzer phone. Coming soon to a watering hole near you.

Sticky Pads are Good

For all of you camera geeks out there, finally, something to make you ditch your D70.

Wi*Mart

Everyone's "favorite" store, Wal-Mart is planning to roll out WiMax to all of its stores. Basically, that would mean a huge portion of the country would have access to wireless broadband. Probably at a pretty good price too! I bet Chopper_D is already waiting in line.

iPod Updater 2004-08-12

There's a new iPod updater available that provides improved connectivity with FireWire hubs, improved power management, improved performance with the optional external battery pack, and removing headphones while the hold switch is on no longer wakes iPod. If you want to back up your iPod before running this upgrade (and you should), I recommend iPod Agent. In addition to making backups of your music, it also transfers Outlook mail, contacts, appointment, tasks, and notes to your iPod. It can even fetch news and RSS feeds! If you have an iPod it's definitely worth checking out.

Get your Blog this back

Use this neat extensionShow Old Extensions 0.1.3, it will open some of your old favorites like Blog This for use again.

IE Snapout Extension

Try this extension for firefox, for those pages that only work in IE.

Enjoy

321 Studios Shuts Its Doors

That pesky Entertainment Industry has struck again, 321 Studios (maker of DVDXCopy)has gone under due to their efforts. Picking on the little guy shame shame.

Did filesharing die when they killed Napster, what do they think this will do?
Alcohol120 % ,and CLone DVD ,with ANyDVD are great options.

Read this wired article for more details.

Snarf! Snarf! Oh, Lion-O!

A new way for you to have your information stolen from you -- bluesnarfing. Using a high-gain antenna, one can hack into a Bluetooth device (like your high-priced cell phone) from a long distance away, ripping off your stored phone numbers, calendar items, your cell phone number, etc. Why is this possible? Because the Bluetooth development specification for cell phones recommends that only services should be responsible for binding and securing BT connections (and not the cell phones themselves). I guess the recommendation committee probably didn't think that long-range hacking on a normally short-range networking method could occur. They'll have to think again due to the mighty power of the BlueSniper.

Firefox,, The Browser Re-packaged

There's a new version of Firefox available (0.9.3). This release fixes 4 security holes and should be installed as soon as possible. Download, and enjoy!

How many of these have you owned?

I found a link to the old-computers.com museum while reading a story about the 10 worst laptops on Gizmodo this morning. I don't agree with most of what Dvorak says here, but it's a fun read. I used to work on/with the IBM 701c laptops and loved them. Butterfly keyboards rocked!

Wireless Storage Goodness

Engadget has an article about Netgear’s new WGT634U Wireless Media Router. Other than the obvious features of your standard 802.11g router, it has one very unique feature: a USB port. This can be used to plug in a USB hard drive and share it out on your home network. This is not good news! I officially have no justification to keep running my home server...

Firedox. The Browsed.

Firedox, a new site that parodies Mozilla Firefox caught my attention this morning. For a blog that is sometimes be consumed by Firefox news it's nice to add some humor. For a little more Firefox related humor, try Firesomething.