Archive for 2006/06


Diet Coke + Mentos Frenzy Continues

Earlier this month, Fahim wrote on Tech Pedia regarding the official mentos+diet coke mixture and embeded a video with it. But I found the next level of Mentos+Cola frenzy.

Apple to Preview Leopard

Apple has given a ferocious name to its next version of OS X. It’s called Leopard. Apple will be previewing Leopard at its annual World Wide Developers Conference which convenes at San Francisco on August 7th.
Leopard will be directly competing against Vista, Microsoft’s latest version of Windows which is due to be released next year. […]

Windows 101: Know the basics about NTFS permissions

NTFS permissions offer a great deal of control when it comes to resources on your systems. When it comes to the old NTFS (from Windows NT) and the current NTFS (from Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP), there are a lot of similarities and a few differences. In this edition of Security Solutions, […]

Second Excel Attack Discovered by a Hacker

Last week I wrote about an excel vulnerability that got surfaced. This week a hacker has posted a code that could exploit the vulnerability of excel spreadsheet.
The bug is not public knowledge yet. The bug could be exploited to run unauthorized programs on a Windows computer.
This latest Excel attack was disclosed Monday in a posting […]

Is Google Really Powerful?

I have heard about reports that Google could eventually launch its own digg killer. I wrote an article about Google being the leader and venturing into new zones and succeeding. If Google can do anything they want to, what are they waiting for?

“A Comcast Technician Sleeping on my Couch”

“A Comcast technician came to replace a faulty modem. After spending an hour on hold with Comcast’s central office, he fell asleep on my couch. I’ve been in my apartment for three weeks and my internet connection is still non-functional. This is my tribute to Comcast, their low quality technology and their poor customer service.”

Prototype of a new type of desktop

BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.
For more details please see: http://honeybrown.ca/BumpTop

How to Plan Manpower on a Web Team

As many of you know, I have been managing our church’s website for the past few months. It was not an easy project as all my designers and programmers have a full time job and this was going to be on the side kind of a job. I was asked to build a team of […]

Nintendo Wii Commercial

Just a regular commercial by nintendo…