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LoJack for Laptops

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LoJack for Laptops

Absolute Software has come up with a solution that everyone else wishes they had thought of – LoJack for laptops. According to the FBI, a laptop is stolen every 53 seconds and 97% are never recovered. Laptops are taken from coffee shops, hotel rooms and automobiles every day. Losing your laptop can be devastating. Here’s how it works: When your laptop is protected with this service, software installed on your laptop works behind the scenes to silently and securely contact Absolute Software’s Monitoring Center, and if stolen, report its location using any Internet connection. Then Absolute works with with local law enforcement to recover and return your laptop to you.

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Mozilla Set to Push Firefox 1.5

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The Mozilla Foundation is set to release the latest version (1.5) of the Firefox browser soon (quite possibly today!). If you can’t wait, you can download and try out Release Candidate 3. Some of the new features that you can look forward to in FF 1.5 will include auomated updates, tab reordering (cool – I have an extension to do that now), pop-up blocking improvements, better support for Mac OS X, lots of security enhancements, and even better support for Web Standards. The Mozilla Foundation is set to push the latest release even more so than they did with Firefox 1.0, by producing a more “consumer-oriented” website that is geared more to the average user, and a community marketing site where folks can create and upload their own videos describing their use of Firefox. Additionally, Mozilla is promising more frequent releases: Firefox 2.0 in the middle of 2006 and Firefox 3 in the first quarter of 2007.

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DiskGO! 2.5″ Ultra Portable Hard Drive

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DiskGO! 2.5

Yesterday we talked about my painful hard drive crashes in October (somethings gotta crash in October) and how I will save my personal information on a USB Flash Drive. Of course with USB flash drives limited in their size, I can only backup so much information.

I tend to keep ISOs of the programs I install and I would love to backup pictures and music, but the Flash Drive simply cannot store that data whereas the 100GB version of the DiskGO! 2.5″ Ultra Portable Hard Drive can. Larger than a USB Pen Drive or other Flash Drive, the DiskGO! is still small enough to carry in a briefcase.

Be kind to your data and back it up!

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Linux on Cell Phones?

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I can only dream at this point for the most part. But wouldn’t it be cool if my PDA/cell phone/media player all-in-one device ran Linux? I could hack it to my heart’s content. I could install my own digital decoder instead of having to live with the MP3 format. I could write & run small shell script apps on the PDA-part of the device to dictate how *I* interact with *my* data. And of course, I could totally customize the cell phone component to work the way I want. I know; I’m still dreaming. However, it turns out that the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) is launching an initiative to push Linux onto cell phones. Thank you OSDL. I hope you’re incredibly successful.

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Microsoft Patch MS05-051 May Cause Problems

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The sys admins in us just had to post this article. Apparently, Microsoft’s patch, MS05-051, which fixes 4 critical security flaws in WinXP, 2000 and 2003 platforms, causes some problems of its own. However, Microsoft has issued an advisory and a set of guidelines to ‘fix’ this problem. So if your XP firewall isn’t working, you can’t login to your computer, your Network Connections folder is empty or one of a handful of other problems, then you may already know why!

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Yahoo Releasing Desktop Search App

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Yahoo is moving their Desktop Search app into general release today. Desktop search, as quite a few of the big players have realized, is in great demand today. Both Google and Microsoft have desktop search applications as well. They are all competing so strongly on this that they even have the same styled domain names for the websites promoting these apps (desktop.google.com, desktop.msn.com and desktop.yahoo.com). Freely downloadable like its MSN and Google counterparts, the Yahoo search app is able to search e-mails, attachments, Word docs, music files, images, video, Yahoo address book entries and Yahoo Messenger archives.

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3.5″ External Network HDD/FTP/Samba

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3.5

Create your own NAS (Networked Attached Storage) with a hard drive and this hard drive enclosure! You can create a networked hard drive that can be accessed using FTP or SAMBA (an open sourced SMB server that allows files on a UNIX box be shared so Windows clients can easily use them… of course if you’re a true geek you already know that!).

What’s beautiful about this is that you can create a networked backup solution for a fraction of the cost of other solutions on the market.

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Microsoft Unveils Official Name for “Longhorn� and Sets Date for First Beta Targeted at Developers and IT Professionals

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Company announces official name of its next-generation Windows client operating system.

REDMOND, Wash., July 22, 2005 — Today Microsoft Corp. announced the official name of its next-generation Windows® client operating system, formerly code-named “Longhorn.� Video of the name announcement can be seen via the link below.

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Apple Releases New Software for iTunes

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By Greg Sandoval, AP Technology Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple Computer Inc. released new software Tuesday designed to make it easier for users to listen to the increasingly popular, but largely unstructured podcast offerings.

Apple, which also announced color screens for its iPod digital music players, said the new iTunes software comes with a podcast directory that lists more than 3,000 free audio programs. It also sports a new menu and the ability to automatically send new episodes of podcasts to the user’s computer.

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