Archive for October, 2008

Flock 2 Ready to Rock

October 15, 2008

Flock 2 is out of beta and ready to rock according Flock’s Shawn Hardin (I hope I don’t get web-spanked for that one). It might be less than a year since Flock 1.0 came out, but it was the second day I had Flock 1 (1.6 I think?). So, last night I download, install and [...]

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Google and Germany – again

October 14, 2008

Google and German courts are making nice-nice with one another again, this time over Google’s Image Search which German courts are taking offense to saying that the thumbnails produced by Google infringe on copyright laws. In the end if this suit prevails against Google, it will be German Internet users and website owners who will [...]

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Hacking WiFi Encryption coming to a video card near you

October 14, 2008

As if crackers (different form Hackers, who are not malignant) didn’t already have enough tools, according to Company puts NVIDA GPUs to work cracking wireless security a company called Elcomsoft, which I am guessing is headquartered in Utopia, has developed software called “Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery” using NVIDIA’s Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). According to [...]

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Gmail Adds More Customizations – Advanced IMAP Controls

October 13, 2008

For you IMAP email users out there New in Labs: Advanced IMAP Controls talks about Gmail’s newest customizations for you through Gmail Labs; filtering which labels to sync or not, marking messages for deletion now allows either immediate deletion or a more traditional IMAP delete when folder is expunged option, and you can choose from [...]

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Gmail’s Mail Goggles had the right idea

October 8, 2008

Google’s new lab feature by Jon Perlow, a Gmail engineer called Mail Goggles (New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret) has what I agree is a good idea, but possibly could be implemented better. Many have surely sent emails we later regretted whether it be late night ramblings or angry retorts. A quick [...]

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