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Unless I am totally brain dead a site called shortWIRE is offering a service that allows you to look at your favorite RSS feeds and I am sitting here trying to figure out if they know what there doing. They let you look at 5 sites for free to get a taste for there service which is cool. But for
Security Focus is reporting: "An appeals court this week put the brakes on an FBI surveillance technique that turns an automobile driver's on-board vehicle navigation system into a covert eavesdropping device, after finding that the spying effectively disables the system's emergency and roadside assistance features." I am sure the FBI can bug a car using traditional methods but where looking
I have been looking at a lot of publishing software lately and found one that I have never heard of before. It is called Mambo Open Source they claim they have the best web publishing tool. I am not so sure about the claim but the application looks pretty good and I will be giving it a test drive on
Are you a programmer or website developer? If so I need some help and I am willing to pay for that help. I have a desire to add some features to this site. If you have ever visited www.newsisfree.com you can subscribe and view your hand picked news sources RSS/XML feeds etc in a very organized browser friendly way. We
Americans seem to be in love with their high-tech gadget. Cell phones with customized ring tones, personal digital assistants with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless networking, high-speed broadband Internet connections, and software applications that provide greater processing power and accuracy than our parents ever dreamed about are available to us 24 hours a day, 365.242199 days a year.
iTunes music can now be written to a file via a Quicktime utility. It takes the Quicktime stream and writes it to a file. [The Register] You can find the download here
In countries such as China that filters the IP traffic preventing chinese citizens from getting to many Internet sites. But as technology expands the government is finding it harder to filter content. This is outstanding news information will speed change in that people can educate themselves via independent sources not what the government wants them to know. [Wired]
For those of you like me that have a passing interest in what is happening in our universe but don't have a degree in astronomy or failed your physics class. The BBS has an interesting article that gives some new insight into what the Sun has been up to lately. [BBC]
It is very sad that MP3.COm content is going to be destroyed the works of thousands of bands and largely unknown artist. On December 2nd all informations will be "del *.*" They have sent out notices to all site owners get your stuff of the site because if you do not it is going to bit bucket heaven. This is
Seems an individual lost his cool when he tried to get removed from a spammers mailing list. His mistake was making threats of killing employees and sending anthrax to them in the mail. It is frustrating at times I have leveraged my frustration by adding 3-4 layers of spam defense which has cut the amount of spam I get by
Spam is an ever-increasing annoyance for e-mail users. Most people have some form of spam filtering application that reduces the instances of the frequently offensive unsolicited commercial messages. Many of these filters seek to identify spam based on the address from which the message is sent, but spammers are already wise to this trick, and spoofing is now commonplace. By hiding or misdirecting their transmission source, spammers make it exceedingly difficult for most users to determine from where the spam message actually came.
Periodically I put out a request for editors here at Geek News Central if you would like to contribute to the informational content here at Geek News send me a e-mail and we will get you setup. The current readership of Geek News Central continues to increase each month and the stats show that nearly 75,000 visitors a day are
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