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The Inspire Me Facebook application does what it says on the tin … your friends can send you words of insipation to help you through your day, or to do those tasks, or to cheer you up. This actually seems like an interesting idea with some potental !!!
Follow a live .Mac web gallery link to see what iMac galleries are now offering …….. It’s very slick indeed…. Drag your cursor over a gallery to “flip” through its photos, and click anyone to view. Once you’ve entered a gallery, you’ve got several options. Choose a grid, carousel or mosaic layout (the carousel is **impressive**), or simply start a slideshow. You may also change the background’s color and resize any photo. Finally, you can subscribe to an album’s RSS feed, send to a friend or add photos (if you’ve got permission to do so).
I tried this on Firefox 2.0.0.4 on XP and it was very nice … I heard that it looks amazing on iphone (don’t have those in the UK yet) and I am sure it looks better on MAC/Safari … but as for sharing photos then I wish Flickr did that 
“Using a new program to analyze images and videos for changes may reveal hidden terrorist messages.”
Ok, this is interesting in that someone has used clever ideas and neat technology to analyise the source and authentisity of an image, which could help decide debates about is it real, is it not real. But sorry, it would be much more interesting if it did not mention Al Qaeda and concentrated on the fact that the process was in fact possible. We are hit by a mountain of images on a daily basis which could be doctored to hide their true source or indeed include hidden messages and these are from all “sides” and across all media. Lets try it against some government images.
I had to do some research on both software and hardware based encryption for a project recently and although I had heard of TrueCrypt I had never actually used it. Although we chose not to use the product for this particular project (company did not like the idea of Open Source, but that’s another story for another time) I wanted to see if I could encrypt a USB drive in such a way that the PCs I used the device on did not need TruCrypt installed. Well, this is a quick guide to how TruCrypt does just that.
This was done on a XP/SP2 desktop. TrueCrypt does not work on Vista yet, refer the the venders Web site for details.
Firstly, you cannot use Full disk encryption for this, why not?? Well, the TrueCrpyt.exe file has to live on the USB device and in order for it to run you need to access the volume … if the volume is encrypted then you can’t read it without using TrueCrypt … which is encrypted on the volume !!! So, we create an encrypted “volume” on the device, which is kinda like an encrypted folder.
That’s the volume created, so now we configure TrueCrypt to mount the volume when the drive is plugged in
Remove the USB stick and then plug it back in to test. Depending on how your PC in setup to handle USB devices you will probably be prompted with a choice on what to do …. if you are then Run TrueCrpyt should be on the list, so select that.
Enter your passphrase into the dialog box and this should mount the volume to the next available free drive letter.
Note: You will have two drive letter pointing to the USB drive, but one will show you the TrueCrypt folder and is therefor the un-encrypted volume, the other will be the encrypted volumes
This worked for me, however please remember I cannot guarantee it will work for everyone…..
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Just found that if you are using Firefox you can use the address bar to search google, just by prefxing your text with “google” …. so typing google daily news into the address bar for exmaple would auto search google with the text daily news.
I’ve blogged similar things in the past, but there is so much free, good open source software out there that lists like these are a haven for some excellent utilities on just about every software need you may have………………..
Community driven blogg where the Software Jedi codes an app a day … some very cool things on there …….
These lists pop up all the time … but it is always worth a read to see if there is something you may be missing.
A good list here and some fantastic products mentioned.
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