about 1 week ago - 1 comment
Drudge revealed this shocking powerpoint slide today. It is labeled Top Secret/NorForn, which means that only cleared personnel of American origin can see its contents. It details the PRISM program which boasts to be able to deliver the meta and contents of many internet communication types- Gmail, Hotmail, Skype, videoconferencing, photostreams, Yahoo Mail and much…
about 1 week ago - No comments
Sometimes you just have to let things go. Especially if that thing is your iPhone that you dropped on the Subway tracks. Just let it go. Don’t jump onto the tracks to retrieve it like this guy from the Bronx. From CBS here: A man was killed by a subway train in the Bronx early…
about 4 months ago - 3 comments
A mop-haired kid from Maryland created a simple paper strip test that can cheaply and very accurately detect a wide range of diseases from a blood or urine sample with better accuracy than hospitals. Medicine will never be the same again. From the DailyMail here: A 15-year-old schoolboy could save millions of lives after he…
about 6 months ago - 1 comment
Not entirely clear what happened here. Some non-English speaking woman tried to buy too many iPhones and then threw a tantrum at the mall that got her tazed. From WCVB here: A local family says a language barrier may have resulted in police using a Taser on a woman after she tried to buy too…
about 7 months ago - No comments
Phishing by TXT Message, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr. I got this phishing text email last night posing as a security alert from FedChoice Bank. A cursory google search for the phone number turns up a forum that reports fraudulent phone numbers. Some have reported calling the number and there is a recording asking…
about 9 months ago - No comments
This video has gone viral. And yep, I also have an iPhone and I do take several snaps of my food- but at least I have a blog about food so Nyah.
about 1 year ago - No comments
Okay, so you have a smart phone that rotates its screen depending on how you hold it. Nice, right? But I bet you don’t understand how the hell it does that. Especially from a chip that is only microns in size. Watch this and be smarter. Thank me.
about 1 year ago - No comments
Files can easily be recovered from old phones and PDAs, including smartphones. Don’t dispose of one unless you are certain the data cannot be recovered. Otherwise, don’t complain if someone steals your deleted data or outs you as gay on facebook. Here is a post on how to wipe data from an iPhone/iPad. From the…