Ubuntu MID edition has been released for handheld Mobile Internet Devices. It's targeting devices based on Intel's A100/110 and the new Centrino Atom platforms. Successors to the UMPC, MIDs are usually small formfactor and have a touchscreen, plus a physical keyboard. UMPC portal has a examples of devices that are currently supported by this release, inluding plamtops like the Kohjinsha SH6. This … [Read more...]
Charter abandons packet monitoring advertising plan
June 25, 2008 By 3 Comments
Charter Communications has announced that it will no longer be attempting to target advertising based on user actions. The original strategy would have involved inspecting the contents of every packet sent or received by the customer. This usage pattern is associated with a specific IP and relevant ads are displayed on sites using NebuAd when that IP visits. NebuAd doesn't directly share the IP, … [Read more...]
Wireless arcade stick
June 25, 2008 By 2 Comments
[astralpancakes] wireless arcade stick project looks like a great place to start if you want a simple project. Well constructed arcade sticks can cost $100+, but with all the MAME cabinet builders, the parts have become easy to acquire. The stick has a rigid wooden case with a metal faceplate. All of the component connections are soldered to the pads of a Logitech wireless controller. … [Read more...]
iPhone 2.0 adds secure wipe
June 25, 2008 By 6 Comments
AppleInsider is reporting that iPhone Software v2.0 will add a secure wipe feature. The screenshot above shows the text "This will take about an hour." added to the normal erase feature. This time is used to overwrite data to the disk multiple times. The need for secure phone erasure came to light after a researcher was able to recover personal information from a refurbished iPhone using forensic … [Read more...]
Nano GPS logger
June 25, 2008 By 14 Comments
This is a nice, compact gps logger that's built around a PIC16F872 and some eeprom chips. It was designed for a particular GPS receiver, but should be easily adaptable to others since the unit ouputs standard sentences at 4800 baud. Full schematics and board layout are available on the project page. … [Read more...]
Build a Twitter client with Fluid
June 25, 2008 By 7 Comments
The Fluid Site Specific Browser (SSB) is one of our favorite pieces of kit for Leopard. You can use Fluid to give web services you use constantly like Gmail, Facebook, Wikipedia, or Pandora their own icon and a browser tailored to that site's specific workflow. Fluid based on WebKit and has plugin support among many other features. Embedded above is [Eric Eggert] showing how to create a reasonable … [Read more...]
U.S. and China host majority of malware
June 25, 2008 By 10 Comments
StopBadware.org has released their May 2008 Infected Sites Report(PDF). They took their current list of 213K active badware websites and resolved the IP addresses. These addresses were used to determine the network block owner and country. The results could be skewed to networks Google scans more often, but they should give a decent overall picture. China hosts 52% of all the badware sites while … [Read more...]
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