Archive for November, 2005

Nov

30

RSS Next Big Worm Threat

By Jon Heizer

“Trend Micro has gone on record saying that RSS feeds will be the “next big thing” in worm attacks, especially after Internet Explorer 7 is released with its embedded RSS capabilities.”
I can see it now. You can already download audio files automatically for podcasting. TV Series shows can automatically be downloaded via torrent [...]

Nov

30

Laptop Scroll Touchpad

By Jon Heizer

Do you have a laptop with a plain old boring touchpad like mine (Dell 600M)?

Do you wish you had a fancy one with scroll bars and a middle mouse button?

Well, you might and just don’t know it. The following might vary depending on your laptop manufacture and installed touchpad drivers.
You can add [...]

Nov

29

Samurize System Monitor

By Jon Heizer

A few friends have seen this on the bottom of my screen and wondered what it is.

Samurize.Com
Samurize is the popular advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more. And best of [...]

Nov

29

Firefox 1.5 Released

By Jon Heizer

Rumors are flying that the Final version of Firefox is available via the FTP server for Mozilla. The main Firefox page has not been updated to say whether or not the final version has been released or not. MD5 Sums shows that it is the same executable as the 1.5 RC3 release so [...]

Nov

28

Visual Studio 2005 Bugs

By Jon Heizer

Even though I downloaded the latest version of Visual Studio 2005 a few weeks ago, I did not install it until this past weekend. Oh was that a mistake. I should have stuck with the Beta.
Usually when moving between betas of Visual Studio, you have to do a whole bunch [...]

Nov

27

Keep Your Feet Warm

By Jon Heizer

Now I have seen it all, USB Powered Slippers…

Nov

24

Christmas Lights and Music

By Jon Heizer

I was sitting around with the family today and my Dad sent me a link to this video.

Fresh Video from BlogTelevision.net (Source)

I wonder what their neighbors think…

Nov

23

Happy Thanksgiving!

By Jon Heizer

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov

22

Combine Internet Connections

By Jon Heizer

“Say you have access to multiple links to the Internet, such as several wireless networks in range. Wouldn’t it be nice to combine all that bandwidth into one big fat pipe for your downloading pleasure?”
Howto

Yeah, this can be used to steal your neighbors internet, but my personal interest is for using multiple ports here at [...]

Nov

22

Skype at RadioShack

By Jon Heizer

“Skype Technologies SA makes its debut appearance in 3,500 RadioShack stores across the U.S. today, a distribution move aimed at bringing VOIP to a wider set of U.S. broadband users.
RadioShack is selling a “Skype starter pack,” which consists of a 4-inch-by-4-inch clear plastic sack containing the Skype software, a white plastic ear bud headset with [...]

Nov

21

CSS Fun

By Jon Heizer

Sorry about the site looking so messed up for the past few hours. I uploaded the previous article and ran out the door without checking it. I found later that the site was a wreck. After playing with the css for the site template I finally realized that everything was caused by [...]

Nov

21

Download Wikipedia

By Jon Heizer

Most geeks know the power of wikipedia. For those of you that don’t know, wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that is created by people on the internet. It is a wiki, is a group of Web pages that allows users to add and edit content.
Now you can download the entire wikipedia database to [...]