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Using Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps 2007-08-03 03:29:00 Whether you want to quickly add a waypoint to your GPS, or view a map of a known location, it can often be convenient to use real latitude and longitude values with Google Maps instead of dealing with street addresses. Rerieving a map for a lat/lon value is simple enough with Google Maps. You can simply enter the decimal latitude and longitude into the search form instead of a street address.However, if you're viewing a map and you want to retrieve the lat/lon location, there unfortunately isn't a convenient "get latitude and longitude" button. Google Maps deals with latitude and longitude locations internally, though, so with this little snippet of javascript, you can easily get the job done: javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()) This will return the coordinates of the map's center point. You might want to double-click a position on the map before running the above code. Doing so will reposition that point to the center of the map automatically. . And h ... Google

Weirdest Keyboards of all times 2007-08-02 06:38:00 A computer keyboard is a peripheral partially modelled after the typewriter keyboard. Keyboards are designed for the input of text and characters and also to control the operation of a computer. Keyboards come in many shapes. Keyboards are the most important part of computers, and evolution of computers is incomplete without evolution of Keyboards. In the recent past years, keyboards have been produced like anything. What follows is a list of the weirdest keyboards currently available in the market and which every geek wansts.Bra KeyboardJapanese has invented a new innovative computer keyboard that you can wear. The keyboard has 85 keys and measures 350mm width and 135mm length. It has USB connection, so that you can plug-and-play the computer keyboard at any computer. Do you mind using this computer keyboard if a lady like in the picture is wearing it?myKey0 keyboardYou might have a limited desk space for your organizer and your computer keyboard and it is hard for you to keep all you ...

Weirdest Keyboards of all times 2007-08-02 06:38:00 A computer keyboard is a peripheral partially modelled after the typewriter keyboard. Keyboards are designed for the input of text and characters and also to control the operation of a computer. Keyboards come in many shapes. Keyboards are the most important part of computers, and evolution of computers is incomplete without evolution of Keyboards. In the recent past years, keyboards have been produced like anything. What follows is a list of the weirdest keyboards currently available in the market and which every geek wansts. Bra Keyboard Japanese has invented a new innovative computer keyboard that you can wear. The keyboard has 85 keys and measures 350mm width and 135mm length. It has USB connection, so that you can plug-and-play the computer keyboard at any computer. Do you mind using this computer keyboard if a lady like in the picture is wearing it? myKey0 keyboard You might have a limited desk space for your organizer and your computer keyboard and it is hard for you to kee ...

James Bond's Gadgets Busted 2007-08-01 03:38:00 James Bond is the flamboyant secret agent who almost always seems to be able to dodge certain death, and always manages to find time off from saving the world to romance some of the most beautiful women on the planet! But the women, the death-defying close shaves, or the martinis—shaken, not stirred—are not the only things that constitute Bond’s aura. Most of us salivate over the gadgets he uses, perhaps even more than we do over the women in his company. Many Bond gadgets reek of convergence. They’re smart, they’re multifunctional, and they talk to other gadgets. The makers of the Bond movies do seem to have put some effort into envisaging a converged world—although, of course, it was necessary that only Bond, and no one else, had the gadgets! We plunge into the wonderland of Bond’s gadgetry, and analyze what is possible in the real world and what will remain in the reel world. We’ve rated all gadgets by a ‘Coolness Quotient’ based on how much we’d love to own on ...

James Bond's Gadgets Busted 2007-08-01 03:38:00 James Bond is the flamboyant secret agent who almost always seems to be able to dodge certain death, and always manages to find time off from saving the world to romance some of the most beautiful women on the planet! But the women, the death-defying close shaves, or the martinis—shaken, not stirred—are not the only things that constitute Bond’s aura. Most of us salivate over the gadgets he uses, perhaps even more than we do over the women in his company. Many Bond gadgets reek of convergence. They’re smart, they’re multifunctional, and they talk to other gadgets. The makers of the Bond movies do seem to have put some effort into envisaging a converged world—although, of course, it was necessary that only Bond, and no one else, had the gadgets! We plunge into the wonderland of Bond’s gadgetry, and analyze what is possible in the real world and what will remain in the reel world. We’ve rated all gadgets by a ‘Coolness Quotient’ based on how much we’d love to own on ...

Firefox 2.0.0.6 fixes yet another protocol-handling bug 2007-08-01 02:37:00 Mozilla Corp. late yesterday updated the Firefox browser for the second time this month to patch a pair of vulnerabilities, including yet another flaw in how it parses malformed URLs that can call up other applications.Firefox 2.0.0.6 includes a fix for a bug disclosed by a pair of researchers a week ago, said Mozilla head of security Window Snyder. This reduces the risk of malicious data being passed through Firefox to another application that may then trigger unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior," said Synder on a Mozilla blog.The update was the latest move in a skirmish between Firefox and Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) users that began three weeks ago today.Then, Danish researcher Thor Larholm spotted what he said was a critical input-validation bug in IE. He argued that it let the browser pass potentially malicious URLs to other programs, including Firefox. He staked out the position that IE was to blame, while other security experts said it was Firefox's faul ...

Firefox 2.0.0.6 fixes yet another protocol-handling bug 2007-08-01 02:37:00 Mozilla Corp. late yesterday updated the Firefox browser for the second time this month to patch a pair of vulnerabilities, including yet another flaw in how it parses malformed URLs that can call up other applications. Firefox 2.0.0.6 includes a fix for a bug disclosed by a pair of researchers a week ago, said Mozilla head of security Window Snyder. This reduces the risk of malicious data being passed through Firefox to another application that may then trigger unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior," said Synder on a Mozilla blog. The update was the latest move in a skirmish between Firefox and Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) users that began three weeks ago today. Then, Danish researcher Thor Larholm spotted what he said was a critical input-validation bug in IE. He argued that it let the browser pass potentially malicious URLs to other programs, including Firefox. He staked out the position that IE was to blame, while other security experts said it was Firefox's ...

Hacked passport crashes readers 2007-08-01 02:17:00 A hacker has demonstrated an exploit against the RFID tags in the new US passports that allows him to clone a passport and modify the RFID with bad code that will crash the passport readers. Lukas Grunwald, an RFID expert who has served as an e-passport consultant to the German parliament, says the security flaws allow someone to seize and clone the fingerprint image stored on the biometric e-passport, and to create a specially coded chip that attacks e-passport readers that attempt to scan it. Grunwald says he's succeeded in sabotaging two passport readers made by different vendors by cloning a passport chip, then modifying the JPEG2000 image file containing the passport photo. Reading the modified image crashed the readers, which suggests they could be vulnerable to a code-injection exploit that might, for example, reprogram a reader to approve expired or forged passports. "If you're able to crash something you are most likely able to exploit it," says Grunwald, who's sch ...

iPhone Hack: EDGE internet on your laptop 2007-07-31 10:16:00 Recent developments have allowed iPhone hackers to compile background applications for the iPhone - among the most interesting so far is srelay, a SOCKS proxy server.srelay running on your iPhone opens up a very exciting possibility - you can use your iPhone's EDGE connection with a laptop or other Wifi-enabled device.A note of caution: Accessing your EDGE data plan through a laptop may be against your AT&T terms of service. Even modifying your iPhone to enable this service may be a violation. Please check before attempting this procedure.Currently these instructions only work for Windows - as I don't have a Mac I can't really test anything on that side. I was hoping a blindly created script would work but it does not appear to. Hit the right-chevron button to go into the IP settings. Hit the "Static" button on the top and fill in the settings.Make sure to set the IP address to one on the same subnet as your laptop, here I use 10.3.3.2 and the subnet mask should be the s ... Internet  Iphone

iPhone Hack: EDGE internet on your laptop 2007-07-31 10:16:00 Recent developments have allowed iPhone hackers to compile background applications for the iPhone - among the most interesting so far is srelay, a SOCKS proxy server. srelay running on your iPhone opens up a very exciting possibility - you can use your iPhone's EDGE connection with a laptop or other Wifi-enabled device. A note of caution: Accessing your EDGE data plan through a laptop may be against your AT&T terms of service. Even modifying your iPhone to enable this service may be a violation. Please check before attempting this procedure. Currently these instructions only work for Windows - as I don't have a Mac I can't really test anything on that side. I was hoping a blindly created script would work but it does not appear to. Hit the right-chevron button to go into the IP settings. Hit the "Static" button on the top and fill in the settings. Make sure to set the IP address to one on the same subnet as your laptop, here I use 10.3.3.2 and the subnet mask shoul ... Internet  Iphone

60 Million Vistas Shipped, 1 Billion Windows by 2008 2007-07-31 09:35:00 Although many PC users are still satisfied with their Windows XP experience, Microsoft was proud to announce that it has shipped 60 million copies of its Windows Vista operating system.In particular, Microsoft boasted that it had quickly surpassed the entire install base of another computer maker that’s better known these days for its music players. "By our math, we eclipsed the entire install base of Apple in the first five weeks of shipment," said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's COO.While 60 million copies would be an impressive number for any other software maker, an operating system from Microsoft must aspire to reach completely new heights. Microsoft isn’t simply looking at millions of units – it’s looking at the billions."The install base of Windows computers this coming 12 months will reach one billion," said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO. "If you stop and think about that for a second, by end of our fiscal year '08 there will be more PCs running Windows in the world than ...

60 Million Vistas Shipped, 1 Billion Windows by 2008 2007-07-31 09:35:00 Although many PC users are still satisfied with their Windows XP experience, Microsoft was proud to announce that it has shipped 60 million copies of its Windows Vista operating system. In particular, Microsoft boasted that it had quickly surpassed the entire install base of another computer maker that’s better known these days for its music players. "By our math, we eclipsed the entire install base of Apple in the first five weeks of shipment," said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's COO. While 60 million copies would be an impressive number for any other software maker, an operating system from Microsoft must aspire to reach completely new heights. Microsoft isn’t simply looking at millions of units – it’s looking at the billions. "The install base of Windows computers this coming 12 months will reach one billion," said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO. "If you stop and think about that for a second, by end of our fiscal year '08 there will be more PCs running Windows in the worl ...

Problems with the Google Analytics: 2007-07-31 01:06:00 Google's Analytics service stopped delivering data to users on Saturday, another in a series of recent performance and availability problems affecting this popular Web site traffic-monitoring service.The latest problem remains unsolved and is apparently affecting all Google Analytics accounts, according to a message posted Monday afternoon by a Google employee in the official Google Analytics blog.Google didn't immediate respond to a request seeking comment about the extent of what it is calling a "temporary reporting delay."Users can log in to their accounts, but the data hasn't been updated since Saturday night. Although the data hasn't been delivered, it hasn't been lost, according to the Google blog posting.Organizations of all sizes use the free Google Analytics to monitor traffic and analyze usage of their Web sites. Using the data collected by Google Analytics, Web publishers make decisions regarding their sites' design, content, and ad space.Last week, Google Analytics su ... Google

Problems with the Google Analytics: 2007-07-31 01:06:00 Google's Analytics service stopped delivering data to users on Saturday, another in a series of recent performance and availability problems affecting this popular Web site traffic-monitoring service. The latest problem remains unsolved and is apparently affecting all Google Analytics accounts, according to a message posted Monday afternoon by a Google employee in the official Google Analytics blog. Google didn't immediate respond to a request seeking comment about the extent of what it is calling a "temporary reporting delay." Users can log in to their accounts, but the data hasn't been updated since Saturday night. Although the data hasn't been delivered, it hasn't been lost, according to the Google blog posting. Organizations of all sizes use the free Google Analytics to monitor traffic and analyze usage of their Web sites. Using the data collected by Google Analytics, Web publishers make decisions regarding their sites' design, content, and ad space. Last week, Google Ana ... Google

Vista performance patches releades for testers: 2007-07-31 00:55:00 Microsoft has released to Windows Server 2008 beta testers two new hot-fix packs for Vista which aim to improve the OS's performance and reliability in a number of categories, fixing many of the mass-reported performance issues in Vista, along with some unexpected improvements.The "938979 Vista Performance and Reliability Pack" improves the performance when copying or moving entire directories containing large amounts of data or files. Other improvements include faster boot times and fixes to Vista's Memory Manager. The "938194 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack" contains a variety of updates including improved compatibility with newer graphics cards, and better performance in games with advanced visuals.Early non-benchmark tests on these patches show some interesting results, with substantial decreases in file operation times. The two update packs have been leaked and are now available for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Vista. Needless to say, the patch was released as pri ...