Posts Tagged ‘software’

Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

According to iPhone Atlas and iPhone hacker-extraordinaire Jonathan Zdziarski, Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your device. Apparently, the new 2.x firmware contains a URL which points to a page containing a list of “unauthorized” apps — a move which suggests that the device makes occasional contact with Apple’s servers to see if anything is amiss on your phone. In Jonathan’s words:

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Outlook on the Desktop

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Put the Microsoft Outlook calendar right on your desktop so that it´s visible and useable all the time without actually having to open Outlook.

Features:

  • Places fully functional Microsoft Outlook Calendar on your Desktop.
  • The Oulook Calendar is pinned to your desktop so that no windows can get stuck behind it.
  • The Calendar´s position, size and opacity are all adjustable via a very intuitive GUI.
  • A tray Icon is provided to get to the preferences or close the application if desired.

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IrfanView 4.10

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

irfanview

IrfanView is a fast, simple freeware image viewer and editor that supports all major graphic formats, including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multipage TIFF, TGA, and more. In addition, it features drag-and-drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN support, slide shows, batch conversion, and modifications such as color depth, crop, blur, and sharpen. The IrfanView PlugIns package offers additional file formats and effects for ...

Open Office

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

open office
 OpenOffice.org is an open-source, multiplatform and multilingual office suite comparable with MS Office. It is compatible with all other major office suites and is free to download, use, and distribute. It was previously known as StarOffice before it became an open-source project. OpenOffice comes with OpenWriter - a word processor, ...

$1.99 domain name for a year

You can get a domain name on Yahoo for 1.99. They do try to sneak in a reoccuring charge in future years of 34.99 but you can cancel at any time. What I often do for blogs and such is register a new yahoo account… participate in this offer… set the domain to forward and [...]

Panasonic’s 103-inch plasma repurposed as multitouch air hockey table

With VIZIO and Pioneer jumping out of the plasma game, we can totally foresee sales of Panasonic’s 103-inch PDP skyrocketing. All kidding aside, a startup arcade would be ludicrous to not shove one of these into the center of the action.

Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps

According to iPhone Atlas and iPhone hacker-extraordinaire Jonathan Zdziarski, Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your device. Apparently, the new 2.x firmware contains a URL which points to a page containing a list of “unauthorized” apps — a move which suggests that the device makes occasional [...]

Monster Commode Seat and Lid

Easily the scariest commode seat/lid we’ve ever seen! Cast in stone-finished resin, it includes easy-to-install hardware that fits standard commodes.

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