By Mark O’Neill A recent comment by Melyvn on one of my past articles got me thinking. The article was about the built-in MP3 player in Gmail and Melyvn asked if it was possible for podcasts to be delivered directly to email. My instinctive reply was “no” but then I thought “was it actually possible?”. [...]
By Mark O’Neill For the past few years, I’ve been using AVG Anti-Virus to keep my computer safe from viruses, but deep down, I’m a pretty paranoid kind of guy. Even if AVG gives a file the all-clear, I’m often left wondering, what if AVG is wrong? What if AVG was sleeping on the job [...]
By Mark O’Neill These days, with 6GB+ Gmail accounts and unlimited Yahoo accounts, email addresses are being used for more than just email. Many people email themselves backups of many things including important documents, music, photos, video files and much more. This way, they are not screwed if the original copy is destroyed or goes missing. Plus [...]
By Patrick Biz Contributing Writer, [GAS] Geeks hate listening to commercial radio on their way to work. Hollywood gossip and local news are not the types of content computer-savvy people are raving about. What if, come Monday morning, you’re in the mood for tech news? Then on Tuesday’s commute, you want home theater reviews, and [...]
There are few people who work with the Internet who understand how truly vulnerable and weak the core infrastructure really is. Nothing demonstrates this basic weakness better than the troubles experienced by YouTube over the past weekend when Pakistan, under orders from its government, put new BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) entries in one of their [...]
By Mark O’Neill If the previously-mentioned FlickrSpy wasn’t enough to whet your voyeuristic appetites, then here is something else you can try out – SurveillanceSaver. This is a free PC screensaver which, when activated, will show you a random selection of webcam streaming images from all over the world. When I tried it out, I [...]
By Mark O’Neill The British TV channel “Channel 4″ has brought out on their website an online detective role-playing game called “Bow Street Runner” which invites you to solve a murder in 18th century London. Named after the group which were the predecessors to the modern day London police force, this free game is remarkably [...]
WikiLeaks is an online clearinghouse for internal documents, memos, emails and bulletins from government agencies, banks, corporations and other entities that may suffer embarrassment should the documents be made public. In many cases, the documents are declassified or for “official use only” and I have even seen some classified material posted as well. The subject [...]
By Mark O’Neill If you’re a hardcore Flickr and photo-uploading fetishist then it’s your lucky day amigo! You can now satisfy all your rampant photographic lusts by gazing at FlickrSpy all day long. The site claims to be a real-time representation of every photo that is currently being uploaded to the Flickr servers. The results [...]
By Mark O’Neill I’ve previously posted about Imified but I have recently noticed a new tool of theirs that you can add to your IM client. It quickly becomes very useful if you are a heavy IM user and you also do a lot of domain checking. Once you have added Imified to your IM [...]
After a long time obsessing over Google Talk, I am now slowly turning my attention to Pidgin. I was inspired to take a closer look at Pidgin after an excellent tutorial on Lifehacker and so now I am experimenting with my Google Talk contacts on the Pidgin platform to see how it goes. But I [...]
By Mark O’Neill In case it isn’t glaringly obvious yet, I love my iPod. So I am always looking for ways to expand its use beyond just playing music. It is an excellent device for carrying your email address book, reading e-books and for consulting Wikipedia. But you can also apparently turn webpages into text [...]