Tired of remembering the 1001 passwords, and having to change some of them once every 3 months? Having nightmares about some of your account being hacked? Read this excerpt from New.com article “Gates: End to passwords in sight”
Now, with Windows Vista, Gates feels he finally has the right weapons to supplant the password as a means of verifying who is who on computers and over the Internet.
The new operating system, due later this year, introduces a concept called InfoCards that gives users a better way to manage the plethora of Internet login names and passwords, as well as lets third parties help in the verification process. Vista will also make it easier to log on to PCs using something stronger than a password alone, such as a smart card.
The full article goes here.
Digital Picture Frame, capable of playing podcasts
Read about this digital picture frame off podcasting news. It has integrated speakers, memory cards slots and support for mp3 files, cool stuff for the (boring) desk ! Just need to plug in and … …
Patitioning harddisk; Bootdisk
was trapped in my win95/98 mindset that we need fdisk to partition a new hard disk, then searched and realised that ms has a whole article on it; anyway, the “magic” is to run compmgmt.msc :O
also came upon the “ultimate boot cd” from BootDisk.info, if you need a boot cd/disk that is. how useful it is i have yet to evaluate :O
and if you are looking for bootable floppy (assuming you have a floppy drive to write to), here’s a link.
DIY LCD Monitor Backlight Repair
If you own a LCD monitor or a laptop with failing LCD backlight, this guide teaches you to do a DIY fix 🙂
Quick Glance – CHIP 11/2005
Some interesting points that I have noted from the reports/articles:
1. First Asian Game Developer Summit held on Oct 11-12: “Bottom line” for game developers/companies: “MONEY, PROFIT”
2. Apple launched 5th generation iPod with support for video files.
3. Your printer may be SPYING on you: Xerox admitted use of customer-tracking code(dots) on printouts.
4. Merger of IM giants – Yahoo and MSN; eta 2Q 06
5. Tiny Flash Drive – How small can a thumb drive be? Pretec’s iDisk Tiny can be used as earring(s) *hmm*
6. “The Internet Mafia” – a 6 full-page writeup on the latest trend on how hackers control your computer to crack/spam/phish/DDoS more computers; and some tips to counter the attacks.
7. “Getting the Most Out of Your iPod” – an article on how you can tweak your iPods.
8. “Going Incognito on the Internet” – author writes about how we are leaving trails on the internet, and some tips on maintaining annonymity. there’s no guarantee of 100% anonymity though.
9. Alcohol120% – a CD/DVD emulator software that allows one to work on software (that needs the disc in the drive) w/o the disc in the drive; comes at a cost though (url: http://www.alcohol-soft.com) :O
that’s all for now folks 🙂