MacWorld begins, CES awaits. Hacker messes up MacWorld keynote. Twitter hacker found out. Copy protection removed from iTunes? PS3 sales up in North America. Motorola to offer phone made from recycled plastic bottles. BestBuy selling refurbished phone. HP new Netbook runs 8-hours. MSFT names new President. Athlon Neo to be released. Cisco doing home networking? Yes, watch 802.11n take off with Cisco behind it.
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Steve Jobs blames emaciation on hormone imbalance. Twitter hacked to put up fake posts. China will be punishing search engines for linking to porn. Lenovo unveils clunker. Howard Stringer under pressure to do something at Sony. Freescale to roll out Netbook chip. Expert claims MSFT made huge money over "Vista Capable" scam. New Mac Mini coming out. Blu-Ray dominates Christmas sale. Ballmer to be Keynoter at CES show. Seagate moves to USB 3. Most confusing High-tech buzzwords listed.
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Absolutely horrible predicitons. Most are not predictions at all!!
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Steve Jobs being sick rumor re-emerges. Digital certificates cracked by hackers. Windows 7 Beta downloaded to an extreme. LG coins new Trumotion moniker. Uses scanning backlight. Negative wordage aimed at Microsoft analyzed. Home server coming from Apple. Self-parking car comes from Lincoln. Top 9 skills for 09.
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Microsoft designs a pay-as-you-go patent. Sony PS3 not catching up? HP gets PC and MAC server. So? Extra second added to the year. Windows 7 to come out early, now leaked. Nothing special they say. Will websites have to be rated. Photo frames have malware. Merry Christmas. Verizon wins $33 million from squatter. Apple, Google, MS sued over icon previews.MMO patent emerges. Gov’t sets up call center for analog to digital changeover. Texting while driving finally becoming illegal. Seven most under-reported stories of 2008. Â
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Santa being tracked by Norad. Notebook sales outpacing dektops. Finally. HP geared up to sell 18 million laptops in 2009. Windows 7 to be out in 2009. The Digital Cliff coming your way. Steve Jobs spirit suddenly "insitutionalized" within Apple. Today’s list. "4 things Microsoft got right in 2008.
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Microsoft update story continues. More interesting is the fact that Firefox may have huge vulnerability. Toshiba debuts 512 GB SSD at CES. Probably very expensive. Expert expects 25-percent penetration by 2011. Sim City on the iPhone. NASA may give shuttles away from free. Graphite memory coming? Top ten over-hyped products from VNUnet. Sponsored by
Two open source tools that are very useful. The first is a password testing tool and the other is a low level format application.
Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.
Download: http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/
Darik’s Boot and Nuke (”DBAN”) is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
Download: http://www.dban.org/download
iPhones at Wal-Mart? Pink Slips for Christmas at Yahoo? The 40th Anniversary of the Mouse. Obama Zunes In. And finally American Math Education: 2+2=Dumb! All this and more on your Tech5 Top5 Countdown.
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