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Mac OS X 10.2 Family Pack

Posted by on Wednesday, 30 June, 2010

Mac OS X 10.2 Family Pack

Referred to by its code name, Jaguar, Mac OS X 10.2 contains more than 150 new features and provides significant enhancements to its modern, Unix-based foundation. From AOL-compatible instant messaging to advanced junk mail filtering and a revolutionary Web search tool, Jaguar is as innovative as the computers that run it. With iChat, the AOL-compatible instant messenger, you can chat with your AOL and Mac.com buddies through a fun, easy-to-use interface. Sherlock 3, the new Web search tool, delivers stock quotes, maps, restaurants, and more without a browser. QuickTime 6 supports MPEG-4, the new worldwide standard for playing and viewing pro-quality audio and video over the Internet. This new version also includes Rendezvous, a revolutionary networking technology that lets you link computers and devices instantly without any configuration. Another cool new feature is Inkwell, which lets you write on a graphics tablet; Jaguar turns your handwriting into typed text at the cursor in an

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Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar [OLD VERSION]

Posted by on Monday, 31 May, 2010

Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar [OLD VERSION]

Code-named “Jaguar,” the next major release of Mac OS X will delight you with the innovation, elegance and ease of use you’ve come to expect from Apple.The initial release of Mac OS X gave you the power of UNIX with the simplicity of Macintosh. But it merely paved the way for the next generation of hardware and software offerings from Apple and third parties.Referred to by its code name, Jaguar, Mac OS X 10.2 contains more than 150 new features and provides significant enhancements to its modern, Unix-based foundation. From AOL-compatible instant messaging to advanced junk mail filtering and a revolutionary Web search tool, Jaguar is as innovative as the computers that run it. With iChat, the AOL-compatible instant messenger, you can chat with your AOL and Mac.com buddies through a fun, easy-to-use interface. Sherlock 3, the new Web search tool, delivers stock quotes, maps, restaurants, and more without a browser. QuickTime 6 supports MPEG-4, the new worldwide standard for playi

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How To Find Out Whether You Are Internet Addict?

Posted by on Friday, 5 March, 2010

You have probably heard many times about an Internet addiction from your friends. You might have read about it in newspapers and magazines. You might have watched the TV programs telling about children and adults who spoiled their lives by sitting in front of their computers and spending sleepless nights by it. What did you do when you heard or read about this? Probably, you smiled disdainfully, being sure, that it wouldn’t happen to you. How do you know? How can you find out that you are an Internet addict?

The first signs of Internet addiction are the following. Imagine that you are at work now. You have a computer, but no Internet connection. You have plenty things to do, but all you can think about is that you need to check your e-mail, visit your personal Myspace page, or play your favorite RPG game, World of Warcraft. You are so willing to do this that your work seems to be a burden. Well, these may be the first symptoms of addiction.

Supposedly, you still do not feel like being addicted and you are sure that you are not. Well, there is one more test that will help you to find out your diagnosis. Try not to use Internet during 24 hours. Do not check your email, do not play Warcraft, don’t even read useful manuals on how to get your WoW Gold, don’t even approach your computer or laptop. Do you feel confused or frustrated? Do you have an overwhelming desire to check an antivirus status of your computer or just use an instant messenger? If you don’t, you are not addicted.

Nowadays, it is difficult to find a person who has not heard about World of Warcraft, which is one of the most popular RPG games. Thousands of people spend their spare time playing this game. They think of leveling up their heroes 24 hours a day, they buy WoW gold for incredible sums of money, they sift through a number of web sites looking for a useful information that can help them to improve their performance. You may think that all those people are insane, but they don’t.

Do you like paintball? How often you and your friends go and play it. Let’s assume it happens once or twice a week. You don’t even think that you may be addicted to this game. You are sure, that this is your hobby. Not all people playing WoW are addicts as well. Some people are just interested in it, it is a kind of passion. Some people collect postage stamps, some collect badges, candy wrappers or coins, some play WoW. People can control themselves if they want to, just don’t let your hobby absorb you and you will never become addicted.

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Your Passwords Aren’t As Secure As You Think; Here’s How to Fix That

Posted by on Monday, 11 January, 2010

If you allow applications to save your passwords, anyone with physical access to your PC can decode them unless you’re properly encrypting them—and chances are pretty good you’re not. Let’s walk through the right and wrong ways to store your passwords.

For the purpose of this article, we’ll assume that the people you allow into your house are trustworthy enough not to hack your passwords, and your laptop has been stolen instead—but the tips here should apply to either scenario. Regardless of how you choose to save your passwords, you should make sure to use great passwords and even stronger answers for security questions.

Once You Click “Remember Password” It’s All Over

Almost any application that requires you to login to something will also provide an option to save your password, and once you’ve done that, your password may as well be plain text. Behind the scenes, even if the application encrypts the account information, it’s doing so with a static key that can be easily deciphered through some reverse engineering, and somebody not only can, but already has created a utility to recover those passwords.

It doesn’t even matter all that much if you’ve got a tough Windows password; anybody with physical access to your PC can use an Ubuntu Live CD to copy all of your data onto an external drive without modifying anything, and crack your files on another machine whenever they please (assuming you don’t have your entire hard drive encrypted). If they had a little more time, they could use Ophcrack to figure out your password, or they could just be mean and use the System Rescue CD to change your Windows password.

Once that person has access to your files, they can recover your passwords with free tools easily—you can recover passwords in a few clicks from Outlook, Instant Messenger, Wi-Fi, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, or any number of other applications. All it takes is a quick Google search to find even more cracking utilities.

Pidgin Stores Passwords in Plain Text

That’s right, your favorite open-source, multi-protocol instant messenger client stores your passwords in plain text. If you don’t believe me, just open up your %appdata%\.purple\accounts.xml file in your favorite text editor, and you’ll see your passwords right there for anybody to read.

The decision to store the passwords in plain text is a deliberate one that’s been thoughtfully considered, and while you might initially think it’s a terribly insecure way to handle security, keep in mind that you can simply download any number of utilities like Nirsoft’s MessenPass and recover the passwords from AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Trillian, Miranda, Google Talk, Digsby, etc. The Pidgin developers point out that their option is actually the preferred method for security:

Having our passwords in plaintext is more secure than obfuscating them precisely because, when a user is not misled by a false sense of security, he is likely to use the software in a more secure manner.

The best answer, of course, is to not allow your IM client to store your passwords at all—but if you must store them, you should at least use the built-in Windows encryption, if not a full-blown TrueCrypt setup. Either option would be better than the pseudo-protection most other applications provide.

Password Managers Are the Only Secure Storage

The only truly secure way to store your passwords is to use a password manager to securely track your passwords, combined with a a great master password to protect the rest of your saved passwords—if you use an easy password for your password manager, it would be easy to crack with a brute force attack. Don’t lure yourself into a false sense of security by just using one—your password manager password should be at least 10 alpha-numeric characters if you really want to be secure.

You’ve got a number of great password managers to choose from, like reader favorite Keepass, a cross-platform tool which has many plugins that help you master your passwords and make using a password manager easier to deal with. And, of course, let’s not forget that Firefox has a full password manager built right into the application.

Use a Firefox Master Password (With More Than 8 Characters)

If you want to use Firefox to save the passwords for all your web accounts, you should make sure to enable a Firefox Master Password by heading into Tools –> Options –> Security and checking the box for Use a master password.

Once you’ve done this, Firefox will store all of your passwords with nearly unbreakable AES encryption—providing you use a password with more than 8 alpha-numeric characters and at least one capitalized letter. If you used a weak and pathetic password like “secret”, it could be broken in a matter of minutes with a brute force cracking tool, but a decent 8+ random character password will take at least 73 years for a brute force attack.

Each time you start Firefox and go to a site that requires a saved password, you’ll be first prompted for your master password. By default, the master password authentication will be active for the entire session, but you can use the Master Password Timeout extension to lock your master password again after a certain interval, which is handy if you walk away from your desk without remembering to lock it with Win+L.

Use TrueCrypt to Encrypt Everything

Rather than deal with password managers or whether or not to save your passwords, you could simply create a separate, encrypted TrueCrypt drive, and use portable versions of your applications to keep everything totally secure. If you’re even more paranoid, you can use TrueCrypt to encrypt the entire hard drive—you will be prompted for a password every time you boot, but you can relax knowing that anything you do will be encrypted, even if you use scripts with your passwords stored in plain text. If TrueCrypt isn’t your thing, you can use the built-in encryption functionality in Windows—just keep in mind that if you change your password your data will be inaccessible, and your Windows password can be cracked, giving them full access to your files.


Are you already using a password manager or encryption to keep your passwords secure? Share your best password security tips in the comments.


The How-To Geek uses Keepass and a tough password scheme to keep his accounts secure. His geeky articles can be found daily here on Lifehacker, How-To Geek, and Twitter.


Are You The Victim Of Internet Addiction? Find Out Now!

Posted by on Thursday, 26 November, 2009

You have probably heard many times about an Internet addiction from your friends. You might have read about it in newspapers and magazines. You might have watched the TV programs telling about children and adults who spoiled their lives by sitting in front of their computers and spending sleepless nights by it. What did you do when you heard or read about this? Probably, you smiled disdainfully, being sure, that it wouldn’t happen to you. How do you know? How can you find out that you are an Internet addict?

The first signs of Internet addiction are the following. Imagine that you are at work now. You have a computer, but no Internet connection. You have plenty things to do, but all you can think about is that you need to check your e-mail, visit your personal Myspace page, or play your favorite RPG game, World of Warcraft. You are so willing to do this that your work seems to be a burden. Well, these may be the first symptoms of addiction.

Supposedly, you still do not feel like being addicted and you are sure that you are not. Well, there is one more test that will help you to find out your diagnosis. Try not to use Internet during 24 hours. Do not check your email, do not play Warcraft, don’t even read useful manuals on how to get your WoW Gold, don’t even approach your computer or laptop. Do you feel confused or frustrated? Do you have an overwhelming desire to check an antivirus status of your computer or just use an instant messenger? If you don’t, you are not addicted.

Nowadays, it is difficult to find a person who has not heard about World of Warcraft, which is one of the most popular RPG games. Thousands of people spend their spare time playing this game. They think of leveling up their heroes 24 hours a day, they buy WoW gold for incredible sums of money, they sift through a number of web sites looking for a useful information that can help them to improve their performance. You may think that all those people are insane, but they don’t.

Do you like paintball? How often you and your friends go and play it. Let’s assume it happens once or twice a week. You don’t even think that you may be addicted to this game. You are sure, that this is your hobby. Not all people playing WoW are addicts as well. Some people are just interested in it, it is a kind of passion. Some people collect postage stamps, some collect badges, candy wrappers or coins, some play WoW. People can control themselves if they want to, just don’t let your hobby absorb you and you will never become addicted.

Before you go and purchase the World of Warcraft account – visit this website with advice about how to buy WoW accounts and not get screwed, how to choose WoW accounts and where to find the best price on the WoW accounts.

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How To Make My Myspace Cool

Posted by on Wednesday, 11 November, 2009

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MySpace is a social networking site. It has its origins in Beverly Hills, California, USA. In June 2006, MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the USA but nowadays it is less used because, in April 2008, MySpace was overtaken by its competitor, Facebook.

MySpace uses lots of features like:

Moods are small icons used to express the user’s daily mood. This service was implemented in July 2007.

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Blurbs, blogs, multimedia

Profiles contains several sections known as “Blurbs” –  ”About Me” , “Who I’d Like to Meet” , “Interests”  and a “Details” section. In the “Details” section, we have other sections like   ”Status” and “Zodiac Sign”. Anyway, it is not mandatory for users to fill these sections, but they usually complete them to get known better with one each other .

Profiles also contain a blog that has standard forms for the content to be filled, emoticons, and media. MySpace also allows you to upload images, having several options. One image can be used as the “default image”, (the image representing your profile). Other images can be uploaded in the gallery and the pictures can receive comments from other users of MySpace. With the help of a picture editor, you can crop images, adjust contrast, convert picture in cartoons and many others.

MySpace also allows flash pictures to be embedded. Blogging features are also available.

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Bulletins

Bulletins are usually used for sending mass-messages to the entire friend list. Some users of MySpace use Bulletins service to send mass-messages about politics, but especially about religion that refers to bad luck or death, messages which are considered to be a threat for other users.

Groups - allows users to share a page and messages from that page. Groups may be created by every user and the administrator of that group may choose who joins.

MySpaceIM

MySpaceIM is an instant messenger. A user of MySpace logs on to the client using the data associated with his or her MySpace account.

MySpace TV

In 2007, it was implemented MySpaceTV, service like YouTube video sharing.

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Applications

In 2008, appeared the API (application programming interface) through which users can create applications for several users to post on their profiles, but with several restrictions regarding comments at photos and media.

MySpace News - displays news (using RSS feeds service) submitted by users. News can also be ranked by users.  As the news gets more votes, they will move upper in the page.

MySpace Classifieds – classified listing by several categories

MySpace Karaoke- allows users to upload on their profile page, recorded audio of them singing. Such recordings can be rated by other users.

MySpace Polls - allows users to post polls on their profile and share with other users.

MySpace forums (more like a group but using implementations of Telligent Community)

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MySpace features are not enough when asking “How to make my MySpace cool?” Some users may think their MySpace page is boring, so they started to search for different backgrounds , layouts, applications through HTML Codes found on special sites dedicated to stuff for “Pimp MySpace”.

There are several categories to browse  stuff codes like: Comments/Sayings, Seasonal/Holiday, Layouts, Blogger Templates, Page Graphics, Flash Toys, Generators, Graphics/Images, Codes & Tweaks.

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I will take some example of Codes to use for your MySpace, to make it look cooler and different from other user’s profile.

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Comments/Sayings are comments expressed by pictures. So, when you just want to say “Hello”, you can insert a code and it will generate a picture expressing the message.

Layouts are actually backgrounds with different printed animal, weather, nature and so on. If you you insert a HTML code, it will generate a background for your page on MySpace.

Blogger Templates are layouts for blogs or better said, backgrounds for blogs. You just insert a specific HTML code, and it automatically generates a background for your blog page.

These were just few examples of how to make your MySpace page special, and there are hundreds of methods to do it. So, through these methods of personalize pages, you can have a page customized as you wish.