Tahoe Time
I am an Alpha Geek with strong outdoor tendencies. I spend entirely too much time scouring the geeky side of the web for useful tidbits. I'll post some of the more interesting ones here. I also started a personal video, audio, and picture blog. It is at http://dambach.org. Enjoy Life -Ernie Dambach
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Trojan Virus Encrypts your files, holds password ransom for $300
A new Trojan identified as CryZip infects files on a computer by encrypting them, then demands a $300 ransom for the password to unlock the files.
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Monday, March 13, 2006
137 Online Tools for Webmaster
An must keep one-for-all list for online free tools that help webmaster, programming, and web design to program, design, develope, optimize web sites.
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Google Launches "Google Mars"
Google has just launched a new service called "Google Mars" that lets you browse the martian land just as you would with Google Maps.
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Google Launches "Google Mars"
Google has just launched a new service called "Google Mars" that lets you browse the martian land just as you would with Google Maps.
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Sunday, March 12, 2006
New Bill to Criminalize Exposure of Illegal US Govt. Activities
A lawyer's blog post explains this newly proposed bill. If it passes, it would be illegal for me to write the following sentence: The president is violating the laws established by the US Constitution by authorizing unwarranted wiretaps.
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Tagging iPhoto
"Melvin Rivera from All Forces wrote a tutorial on using keywords in iPhoto." A simple concept, but nicely illustrated in this tutorial. It spurred me to finally go in and try to organize some of the thousands of pictures I've got in iPhoto.
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Saturday, March 11, 2006
How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV
This article talks about battlestar galactica on bittorent. It's an old article, but very interesting and worth reading
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Ipod vending machine
This weekend, in Atlanta's airport, I happened across an Ipod vending machine. If you have a credit card, this vending machine will spit out a video ipod, a nano, a shuffle, or any number of accessories to go along with it. There was a crowd of geeks surrounding the machine just gawking in the clever marketing of our dear friends at apple.
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Create your own free web OS account in http://eyeos.info
With this free web desktop you can take your data everyÂwhere and be organized thanks to the base apÂplicÂaÂtions (CalÂenÂdar, Agenda, Word ProÂcessor, File OrÂganÂizer, bookmark browser, etc).
Log into http://eyeos.info and register.
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Debit card thieves get around PIN obstacle
Wave of ATM fraud indicates criminals have upped the ante....time to go check the bank transactions...sigh.
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Cool Flickr Hack
Try it out! I dare you to find a boring photo. A new site called Flickr Leech allows you to search massive quantities of thumbs all singled out for their "Interestingness." Even a year ago today was interesting.
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006
33 ways to use your MAC in your HOME THEATER
There's some pretty sick software apps on this list- some I've never seen before. If you're a mac user you gotta check 'em out.
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Daily Show available on iTunes!
Multi-pass. Pay $9.99 and get 16 episodes. One each week. Think of them as Paid-for podcasts.
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Top OS X tips
Want more speed from OS X? The operating system is pretty good at keeping itself in good shape, so there isn�t actually a whole lot you can do to improve OS performance. You can, however, give it a few little boosts. None of these techniques will turn your aging G3/500MHz iBook into a new dual-G5 Power Mac�but every little bit helps.
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New Front Row Screenshots and Hack Install Instructions
a brief article discussing some of the new features in the Front Row update released earlier today. article has screenshots of the new stuff and instructions for hacking the installer to run on any mac.
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Men�s Rules (that women should know)
Women, learn to work the toilet seat. You�re a big girl. If it�s up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don�t hear us complaining about you leaving it down.
Birthdays, Valentines, and Anniversaries are not considered by us to be opportunities to see if we can find the perfect present . . . . again!
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iTunes Agent 1.0!
iTune your non-iPod player! iTunes Agent enables you to use mass storage MP3 player with iTunes, "just" like an iPod. Any device showing up as a "removable drive" on your computer can be configured to be synchronized with iTunes.
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Apple conquers living room. It might be a month before someone notices.
Apple just made the first practical production living room computer that actually bridges the PC/CE divide. How long you think it will be before the industry notices that Apple's pulled another iPod?
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99 Run Commands for Windows XP
From access.cpl to write. Here is a list of commands that you can run off from the Run Command prompt in XP. A great time saver.
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Thursday, March 02, 2006
High Speed Defragmentation Tool
This program bypasses Windows safety tools that makes defragmentation slow.
Very high defragmentation speed, efficiency and ease of use.
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