Free US Casino Tournaments

The online gambling circuit has a new craze in the new tournament option called free slot tournament. As most tournaments require a cash buy in, a free casino slot tournament does not. Other than the fact that you do not have to pay to start playing, free slot tournaments are no different from buy-ins. Furthermore, you may need to download extra software, but waiting for any additional players to start playing is not necessary. Free slot tournaments are an excellent way to get practice because you can play for as much as you want with no penalty.

Free slot tournaments are ran similar to US casino slot clubs in that the members acquire points throughout the tournament. The top scorer is named champion. Some die hard tournament players would even go as far to say they rather the glory of being slot champion than the cash prize itself. This is probably because a lot of players make a decent cash flow playing the game. Free casino slot tournaments differ than slot clubs in that you do not have to pay a membership fee to begin playing. Any “free” slot tournament that requires you to pay a membership fee just to join, is not a free slot tournament at all. Contrary to free tournaments are sit and go games, which require a deposit or a fee to play.

When it comes to free US casino slots there are many notable websites for gaming and different gaming software that the various sites use. The two gaming software that sites use for currency transaction are Microgaming Casino and Vegas Technology. All slots casino offers numerous free Microgaming tournaments throughout the day. One important thing to know when researching for slot tournaments is that Microgaming and Vegas Technology is based from the same company, Microgaming is banned to the U.S. while Vegas technology is not. Some tournaments offer cash prizes in the millions. All that is required is a certain download. Royal Vegas casino tournaments offer 5000 dollar tournaments throughout the day, and throughout the weekend, 20,000 dollar tournaments are offered. Rich Reels casino (Microgaming) also offers numerous free slot games with various luxurious prizes along with cash prizes as well. That is just a standard. There are many different slots and tournaments to practicipate in, which keeps the gamers on their toes. Also continuously offering free slots is Black Jack Ballroom (Microgaming). Not only is Black Jack Ballroom free, but it offers a bonus of $500. Red Flush (Microgaming) is another free tournament site that also offers a $500 bonus, no deposit needed. 32 Red casino (Microgaming), considered the best free slot tournament site from 2003-2008. It is considered an international favorite for its great sign up bonuses and match play bonuses.

Question by sassy3e: How do you restore your imac to original settings?
I want to sell my imac on Ebay and doing so i must delete all personal documents and restore the username to original settings. But, at the same time i want to keep the Microsoft word, etc…(will boost the value of the imac) Should i just delete it manually or is there something else i can do to make it easier (I have thousands of files on this thing..) Thanks any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Answer by Kahless
Your best bet, since it is probably illegal to keep the extra software on it, is to just erase the hard drive and reinstall MacOs X plus the extra software like iLife. Just insert your MacOs X DVD, restart holding the “c” key down and follow the directions.

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The Zen mp3 player is one of the best mp3 players that you can find on the market. This article is dedicated to the Creative Zen X-Fi player that comes at a price of $149 for the 8 GB version, $199 for the 16 GB version and $279 for the 32 GB version. The prices are not that high considering that you get a player with a lot of internal storage room plus some of the coolest features that you can find on a modern mp3 player.
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On the bottom of the player you will notice the speaker while the right side is host to the headphones jack and one mini USB port. On the top there is an SD card slot plus a microphone jack. On the back of the player you will notice a power and hold switch. It is very simple to get contents on this Zen mp3 player and if you are running Rhapsody or Windows Media Player, there is no need for any extra software to synchronize your player to your PC.

You do get the Creative Centrale software which is great to install if you want to copy a lot of videos on your Zen mp3 player. The menu of this Zen mp3 player is very easy to use, with music files which are sorted by album and playlist and so forth. Even the photo viewer of this player is amazing.  You can zoom and rotate pictures and even watch slideshows while you are listening to music. The audio file formats supported by this player are MP3, WMA, WAV and AAC and the video file format should be MPEG4, AVI and WMV. The built in microphone is useful for voice recording and there is also an integrated FM radio. Since the player comes with an integrated speaker, you can now share music with your friends surrounding you. The SD card slot allows you to extend the memory of the player in case the integrated one is not enough. Audio playback is excellent as the sound coming out of this player is impeccable.



The included display of this player is simply beautiful as the colors are sharp and vibrant and photo viewing is a pleasure. It almost looks like you are watching photos on a cell phone. The horizontal viewing angles are good when you want to show your pictures to your friends. Inside the box you will also get a pair of EP-830 earphones which sound great and they make a good team together with the Zen mp3 player. Battery life is very important when you buy a mp3 player because you may want to listen to music on a long flight so it must provide you with long hours of audio playback. 11 hours of audio playback is what this player has scored during tests. The figures are ok but they are very low compared to the 36 hours that the Creative Company initially promised. Video playback can last a maximum 5 hours and a half.

There are three ways to tether your Android handset and get sweet internet love even where there’s no Wi-Fi in sight: the risky-but-free rooting method, the still-geeky-but-not-as-bad free route, and the $30 easy way. Here are the pros and cons of each.

Method 1: Tether Android with Apps that Need Root (Free, heavy configuration)

The Android Wi-Fi Tether application turns your phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot—essentially a MiFi—in one tap. The catch? You have to gain root access to your phone, a multi-step process that uses an unofficial Android add-on which can brick your phone if applied incorrectly. Rooting Android is doable for geeks and hackers with experience soft-modding hardware, but it’s not something most users could (or should!) do.

If you’re up for getting root access in Android, the Android and Me blog runs down how to do it. It’s a multi-step process that involves unlocking your phone’s bootloader, flashing a recovery image, and flashing an add-on to the default Nexus One firmware. Not for the faint of heart, but definitely doable if you’ve ever upgraded your router’s firmware or hacked your Xbox. Here’s a video of the process from Android and Me:

The pros of this method: it’s free and it makes your phone act as a Wi-Fi hotspot that any computer can connect to without extra software or messing with your computer’s setting. The cons: you can seriously screw up your phone if something goes wrong, and you may be sacrificing over-the-air automatic Android updates in the future. (If OTA updates cease, you can always flash your recovery image—but this just means your rooted phone requires maintenance a non-rooted phone does not.)

Method 2: Tether Android with Proxoid (Free, no root required, some configuration)

If you don’t want to gain root but know enough to get around the command line and use proxy servers, the Proxoid Android app can tether your phone for free. Proxoid turns your Android device into a proxy server that your computer uses to make internet requests. Proxoid is free in the Android market, but to get it working you have to install the Android SDK or device drivers onto your computer, tweak some of the settings, and then configure your browser to use a proxy server whenever you want to tether. Here are the installation instructions.

To connect to the internet via Proxoid, on the phone you tap a button to start the proxy server. On your Mac you enter a command in the Terminal and on Windows you run a batch file to start the tunnel, then you set your web browser to use that proxy.

The pros of this method are that it’s free and you don’t need to gain root, so it’s less risky. The cons are that you’ve got to install the Android SDK (something really only developers should have to do), and set your browser to use the proxy server each time you want to tether.

Note: Proxoid is the only method I haven’t tested myself on the Nexus One. Proxoid’s documentation is a bit rough—the Mac installation instructions are second-hand, as the author doesn’t own a Mac—and there isn’t a Nexus One-specific listing. Let me know if you’re successfully using Proxoid on your N1 and what OS you’re using.

Method 3: Tether Android with PDAnet ($30, no root required, minimal configuration)

Finally, the PDAnet Android application lets you tether Android using an app on the phone plus simple software you install on your computer.

PDAnet costs $30 if you want to access https ports (which the free version blocks). To connect to the internet via the phone, you tap a button to start PDAnet on the phone, and click “Connect” in the PDAnet on your computer.

The pros of PDAnet are that it’s risk-free, easy to use, and requires minimal setup. (You do have to enable USB debugging on your phone, which is the geekiest step it involves, but that’s just a checkbox in your phone’s settings.) The cons of PDAnet is that it requires the PDAnet software on your computer and that it costs $30.

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Either I’m getting old and worn-out, or Jarvis is getting to me, because right now I’m with Chris: rooting Android isn’t a process I want to go through again or have to maintain. In that spirit of laziness, I also don’t want to have to mess with proxy servers or the command line when I tether; I want to click “Connect” and get online. So, I went with PDAnet, which was the simplest but not free option of the bunch.

How are you tethering your Android device?

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A Japanese company called Futen (they don’t have a website) is selling a USB flash drive that uses face recognition technology to check the identity of users. Needless to say, the so-called Lockface only works with your computer’s web cam.

The first thing to do is to register a number of pictures of your face. After that, the Lockface verifies your face every time you need to access data on it (the verification process takes about a second). The USB drive doesn’t require extra software to be downloaded or installed.

Alternatively, you can also use a password, completely ignoring the face recognition function of the device. It uses 256-bit AES to encrypt the data. Futen says the device has an error rate of about 2% (it verifies the “wrong” person in 1.91% of cases and won’t verify the right person in 1.98% of cases).

The first version will hold 4GB of memory and is sized at 22×4×55mm. The Lockface costs $110 in Japan (where it’s already on the market). Futen is planning to bring models holding more memory in the near future.

I suggest you contact the Japan Trend Shop, Geek Stuff 4 U or Rinkya in case you live outside Japan and you’re interested in getting one.

Via Excite News [JP]

Brought to you by cheap never used notebooks. Network firewalls get the name from physical firewalls which prevent fire spreading from one section of a building to another. Firewalls are structures which strictly control access from one side to another.

That’s exactly what a network firewall does – restrict the flow of data and program instructions in or out of a system.

There are two basic types of firewalls – hardware and software, though the distinction can be misleading. Hardware rarely does much without extra software to guide it, and software can’t even exist without hardware. It has to be stored somewhere and execute on something.

Hardware firewalls are commonly used between networks – for example between a corporate network and the Internet. The Internet is nothing more than a large set of mutually cooperating networks. Incoming traffic from the Internet is restricted to public access areas or to particular computers on the corporate network. Computers in the corporate network ‘behind’ the firewall access each other and the Internet.

Internal firewalls within corporate networks are also used, typically to keep resources restricted to certain groups, or to prevent viruses infecting some groups from spreading to others.

Software firewalls  – called ‘personal firewalls’ – are more often used in personal computers which connect to the Internet. They’re slower than hardware firewalls, which are specialized for that function, and they use resources on the individual’s Laptop.

Firewalls help prevent unauthorized access to systems by hackers or viruses. They control both inbound and outbound traffic according to a ‘policy’ established when the firewall is installed, or later configured. The policy determines which programs can access the Internet and what kind of incoming or outgoing traffic is allowed.

Browsers, e-mail programs and some auto-updating programs (such as antivirus software) all require network access. A personal firewall can be set up to allow this kind of traffic, while disallowing others.

Firewalls ‘learn’ which programs can access the Internet freely. The first time a program tries to connect to the Internet the firewall signals an alert. The user modifies the firewall policy by (dis)allowing that particular program to access the Internet. The rule of thumb is: if you don’t recognize the program, don’t allow access. Most installation software will specify what firewall settings are needed to run common programs properly.

Hackers routinely scan computer networks looking for open ‘ports’ (numbers used by network software to distinguish traffic) through which they can gain access to your computer. Ports are individual entry connection points between the computer and the Internet. If a hacker can find an open port, it can be used to transmit a worm carrying a payload which can give the hacker control over your computer. Firewalls can close all unused ports.

The best personal firewalls not only close ports, they hide their very existence. This means a hacker program scanning for open ports won’t receive a reply to scan requests, rendering the system ‘invisible’.

That doesn’t mean, unfortunately, that personal firewalls are invulnerable. Unlike hardware firewalls, personal firewalls are part of the computer system – they’re just another program -  and are just as vulnerable to virus attacks as any other. Some viruses target firewalls by modifying the policy file. If this happens your computer may become vulnerable to hackers even when you thought it was secure.

Nevertheless, connecting to the Internet without using a firewall is ill-advised. Open ports are a vulnerability that can be easily exploited by hackers. To protect your firewall integrity be diligent about scanning incoming files for viruses, by using antivirus software and avoiding unexpected e-mail attachments.

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