Posted by mikeg on November 18, 2008
I probably don’t understand something, but it just doesn’t sound right:
VMware Fusion which is running WinXP/IE6 takes up consistently less CPU than Firefox. It seems to me that “virtualization” is somewhat more complex than HTML parsing… but that’s probably just me.
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Posted by mikeg on October 22, 2008
OCZ’s Neural Impulse Actuator – controlling video games by wearing a headband that detects electrical biosignals in the body (By on Amazon: OCZ OCZMSNIA NIA - Neural Impulse Actuator)
Intel’s X25-M (80G) solid-state drive outperforms by a big margin 4200/7200rpm and even Ridata NSSD-S25 SSD
www.greensherpa.com – cash flow projections. in addition to tracking your spending also allows you to forecast how the purchase of a new tv will affect your budget
www.isearch.com – people-search engine that helps you reunite with long lost friends
www.tableau.com – visualize your data better than Excel
Black Friday deals:
Top Sites for Bargain finders: http://www.pcworld.com/article/141808/top_sites_for_bargain_hunters.html
www.topica.com – recommended email marketing service
www.pidgin.im – multiprotocol IM client
www.syncplicity.com – sync multiple computers
Billing/Invoicing – Zoho launched that service but only supports paypal for online payments. www.freshbooks.com supports more online options and offers to send invoices by mail (extra cost)
Password utilities
http://www.pcworld.com/article/123728/top_10_external_hard_drives.html
MP3 Manager – MediaMonkey
HDTV on USB: Pinnacle’s PCTV HD Por Stick outperforms Hauppauge’s WinTV-HDR-950Q
External Video Card: http://www.evga.com/uvplus/, 2 versions: 1440×900 and 1600×1200. (20% discount UV16PWNOV)
Cannon Pixma MX700 – Best Buy Multi Function Printer, $200
SlideSlide – app launcher
Lists:
Employee Monitoring:
www.VirusTotal.com – allows you to upload a file and site runs it against 35 different anti-virus tools
Online virus/malware cleaning tools
www.adtunes.com – helps you identify tunes used in ads and other tv content
www.failblog.org – fun stuff
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Posted by mikeg on January 9, 2008
I was visiting www.fave.com (I use them for bookmarking) and Norton kicked up the following warning:
Scan type: Auto-Protect Scan
Event: Threat Found!
Threat: Downloader
File: C:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\DTKTQ6BK\gnida[1].swf
Location: C:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\DTKTQ6BK
Action taken: Clean failed : Quarantine failed : Delete succeeded : Access denied
Date found: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:21:56 PM
I was a bit surprised that Norton found a threat in SWF file, but after a few searches it seems to be a real issue:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/default.aspx
http://seo.mhvt.net/blog/?p=180#more-180
I usually do not download anything sketchy, so it’s good to be reminded that Norton works!
P.S. Judging by the name, it was created, or was intended to imply that it came from Russia. “gnida” is not a very nice word in Russian.
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Posted by mikeg on January 6, 2008
Just noticed that Skype allows you to link myspace account. It’s probably one of the newer features. Interesting…
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