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Two teams of Astronomers this week discovered the color of two planets by using infrared radiation. This break-through will allow experts to discover what the planet’s surface or atmosphere are made of. This is a major finding. According to Astronomy Magazine,
Speaking of Mozilla, Camino, the Mozilla browser for Macs has just released version 0.8.2 of it’s software. Mozilla calls Camino a browser with Mozilla power and Mac Style. According to Mozilla,
The Mozilla email client, Thunderbird will have scam detection capabilities. We all have seen phishing emails that try to have you click on a link that sends you to a bogus website rather then the website you thought you were going to. They try to get your usernames and passwords from you. If Thunderbird thinks an email message is a possible scam message - it will notify the user with a visual queue. Similar to spam tools, it will also have a "not a scam" button to denote safe messages - for example notifications of online statements from banks or stock institutions.
A new FireFox extension called Greasemonkey allows users to modify webpages as they view them. It gives users the capabilities to manipulate DHTML of a page to prevent ads from appearing, transform links, make a page more printable, change colors, ad your Amazon ID’s in links, change the way links open, and much more. There are literally hundreds of GreaseMonkey userscripts. This all sounds like a great idea, but news.com has some security concerns.
Yahoo announced that they will start to increase all webmail accounts to 1 Gig of space starting on April 1st. It will take about two weeks to finish the upgrade, but start watching your account next week. This will match the Gmail size of the email accounts and since it sounds like Gmail will be leaving beta and open to
Ok I thought the news would be released Wed mid day but someone opened their mouth early. Congrats to Eric Rice on his sponsorship with Warner Brothers. This is a a big deal to Podcasters and may make some of the pundits sit up and say hmmmmm. [Eric Rice]
For those of you that are programmers a new project has been opened on Sourcforge. This will be a great project and will take podcasting directories to the next level. [OPDA]
According to Webroot Inc. and listed in the Inquirer, here are the top ten spyware and adware threats based on detection as well as potential impact.
Motion sensors in laptops are not new, IBM’s Thinkpads had several series that utilized it. But what is new is the ability to program the sensors to do some cool things. Apple’s Sudden Motion Sensor in the new PowerBooks detect strong vibrations or sudden motion and park the drives. Now the sensor can detect the angle of the PowerBook and the velocity of the movement. This makes for a hacker’s delight.
It’s called Ego Surfing, or Googling yourself, it’s the act of typing your name in Google Search and seeing what appears on the webpage. Now there’s a firm that has compiled 25 million web profiles of people and are offering them the chance to change what your web profile reveals about you. Well, it’s not exactly that simple.
If you purchased a Creative Labs Audigy series soundcard before the end of 2004, you can get 25% of the purchase price back in a class action lawsuit. The offer ends September 25th, 2005 so hurry! Go to this website address for legal documentation.
After the Podcast last night which referenced the Windows bigot, Paul Thurrot’s article about a PC beating a Mac in speed tests, I thought I’d bring you a more representative article showing the opposite of these results. And since I know Todd is fair and unbiased in his reporting, he will of course give these tests the same legitimacy that he gave the pro-Windows website’s results.
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