Computers Programmer releases bot army to crush Windows Support scammers The recordings are absolutely gold. He has even created a service allowing you to transfer telemarketers to a bot of your choice. Anderson, known for the Jolly Roger bot which intercepts scam robocalls and creates never-ending loops to keep the calls away from legitimate
Computers Google's Nik Collection of filters is now free For Windows or Mac and works with Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture. Google Nik Collection
Computers Your passwords have already been stolen It’s safe to assume that your passwords have already been stolen and if you’re not using 2-factor authentication for email, Facebook and the like that your accounts will be broken into sooner or later. Fact: Passwords alone are no longer
Computers Magnetic computing could become a reality The future could see us with a super computer in our watch. In a breakthrough for energy-efficient computing, engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown for the first time that magnetic chips can operate with the lowest fundamental level of energy dissipation
Computers Li-Fi -- 100 times faster than Wi-Fi Expect to hear a whole lot more about Li-Fi – a wireless technology that transmits high-speed data using visible light communication (VLC) – in the coming months. With scientists achieving speeds of 224 gigabits per second in the lab using Li-Fi earlier this year,
Apple Inside Apple's perfectionism machine As we looked over the pieces of MacBook, examining the tiny logic board and usual speaktenna, Ternus encouraged me to lift the lid of the completed MacBook he’d placed before me. I placed the edge of one finger on the base to
Computers The 37 Best Websites To Learn Something New The 37 Best Websites To Learn Something New A very good list of sites with everything from bite-sized to university-level courses.
Apple discoveryd Clusterfuck discoveryd Clusterfuck. From time-to-time Safari wouldn’t load sites and computers wouldn’t connect when they should. This article seems to explain why my home network, all Apple gear, doesn’t always seem to work. I tried his suggestion, shutting everything
Airport Utility AirPort Utility 5.6.1 on OS X 10.9 Mavericks Some years ago now I set the transmit power of my Time Capsule to 25%, yet with various updates to the Airport Utility, the ability to reset that to something different was lost. The result? I crippled wireless network. The solution in the past
Computers Update the iStat Pro to work in Mountain Lion and fix the processes issue If you’re like me and still use Dashboard Widgets in Mountain Lion, as well as loved the widgets from Bjango (previously iSlayer) you may be disappointed to find that iStat Pro doesn’t show a list of running processes any longer.
Computers How to prevent Mac OS X users screwing up their system if they rename their user folder <Branes> You know how bloody often people ‘d screw up their install by changing the shortname of their home folder in /Users? <OzDave_mbp> ok <Branes> Fix: make a symlink of their home folder, put the symlink
android Why Apple's win against Samsung is a win for innovation and bad car analogies suck. In a post by Matthew Yglesias on Slate, he attempts to suggest that if Apple’s victory against Samsung would apply to cars, it would be bad for the consumer, suggesting a similar case in the car industry would, among other things, prevent
Computers Conversation on IRC just now Conversation on IRC just now: [03:43 AM] <marfin> so i have an iphone 4s [03:43 AM] <marfin> and its blocked [03:43 AM] <marfin> does anything unblock imei? [03:43 AM] <marfin> redsnow or
Apple How does Apple keep secrets so well? How does Apple keep secrets so well? And the totally unexpected history behind the Intel version of Mac OS X.
Computers Microsoft Skydrive available for Mac OS X and iDevices Microsoft makes SkyDrive available for Mac OS X and iDevices Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the download link. The default storage is 7GB, but while I was poking around the settings at live.com, it offered me a free upgrade
Computers 645 PRO app for iPhone offers access to lossless camera output (but not Raw): Digital Photography Review 645 PRO app for iPhone offers access to lossless camera output App developer Jag.gr has launched 645 PRO, a flexible photography and processing app that provides access to the lossless output of the iPhone’s camera. The company grabs the processed camera
Computers New iPad Owners "Very Satisfied" New iPad Owners Weigh in on the Latest Apple Tablet. “More than four-out-of-five new iPad owners (82%) say they are Very Satisfied with the device. Another 16% say they’re Somewhat Satisfied.“ When asked what they liked best, 75% of owners
Computers 10 Real Reasons to Switch to to a Mac from Windows. The Macalope recently trashed an eWeek article by Don Reisinger called Ditch Microsoft Windows In Favor of Mac OS X Lion: 10 Reasons Why. Since the article is so poor, I thought I’d write my own list, taken from over two-and-a-half decades
Computers Is the Smart Phone Aiming to Kill the Tablet? The Gadget Guy David vs. Goliath: For many people, tablets aren’t yet strong enough to replace laptops, what with a solid physical keyboard being easier to type on and a wider availability of work-grade applications. At one point, it’s likely that this
Computers Android is only "winning" by replacing regular phone OSes. Here's why. Why Google is Winning the Smartphone Wars – Timothy B. Lee – Disruptive Economics – Forbes. It should be called, “Why Google has the potential to succeed over the iPhone.” However, his primary argument has a couple of flaws in my opinion:
Apple iPads Will Kill You! No, they aren’t bashing Apple, they are just abusing them as an easy target for sensational journalism. That example par excellence of stellar journalistic accomplishment The Melbourne Age, tells us this morning that iPods and iPads are nothing less than the Typhoid
3G Translation From Apple's Unique Dialect of PR-Speak to English of the 'Letter From Apple Regarding iPhone 4' Daring Fireball: Translation From Apple’s Unique Dialect of PR-Speak to English of the ‘Letter From Apple Regarding iPhone 4’. We decided from the outset to set the formula for our bars-of-signal strength indicator to make the iPhone look good — to
android The Honeymoon is Over or: Why I went back to the iPhone from the HTC Desire | Nice one from Shane Lord. Shotgun summary: “Because I want to be able to USE my phone.” And to think my Motorolas were bad when it came to being slow and clunky. The Honeymoon is Over or: Why I went back to